The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Turkish armycorps. At Kumanovo they encountered the Sixth Corps of the Turksunder Zekki Pasha. The Servian artillery proved to be too much forthe enemy in a furious battle that raged for two days, and five thou-sand Turks were slain. What was left of Zekkis army fled to Uskiib,only to be routed once more by the victorious Serbs (October 26).This time h
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Turkish armycorps. At Kumanovo they encountered the Sixth Corps of the Turksunder Zekki Pasha. The Servian artillery proved to be too much forthe enemy in a furious battle that raged for two days, and five thou-sand Turks were slain. What was left of Zekkis army fled to Uskiib,only to be routed once more by the victorious Serbs (October 26).This time his troops found refuge with the Seventh Corps at Mona-stir, engaged in resisting the Greeks. Here again the Servians fell THE BALKAN WAR 205 upon and iitterlj^ routed the enemy. JNIonastir, m ith more than fortythousand trooiDS, surrendered on November 15. The Bulgars, with three hundred and forty thousand men, hadtaken the field in Thrace. At first Abdullah Pasha, Avith two hun-dred and fifty thousand troops, awaited the Bulgarian advance at apoint north of Adrianople; but he soon fell back upon a fortified zonewith Adrianople at one extremity and Kirk Kilisseh at the Kirk Kilisseh the Third Corps, under JNIukhtar Pasha, was. Guns Captured from the Turks by the Bulgars routed on October 24 by Diniitrieff, and fled in a panic to days later the Bulgars, under KutinchefF, reenforced by threebrigades from Iranoff, took Liile Burgas by assault. Viza, how-ever, with its one hundred and sixty thousand troops, resisted Dimi-triefFs attack, and Abdullah was emboldened to take the his army, weakened by the withdrawal of one hundred thousandmen for the defense of Constantinople, short of ammvuiition, andfasting for three days, could not cope with the Bulgars. It retreatedin disorder, Mithout food, transports or ambulances, to the Tchataldjalines that form the land defense of Constantinople, across the penin-sula, about twenty miles from the capital. He
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