AN ARMY IN FLIGHT
ROAD LITTERED WITH DISCARDED CLOTHING.
BULGARIAN DEAD MUTILATED
(Received Oct 29. 1 a.m.) SOFIA, Oct, 28
The Bulgarians found the Kochaniishtis Hoad littered with discarded j Tui'kish clothing. The torrential rain and boggy roads impelled the advance. Queen- Eleonora, dressed as a Red Cross nurse, spends many hours daily ' in the military hospitals at Philippopolis, assisting in the dressing of won mis. i The corpses of Bulgarian soldiers
captured by tire Turks were found with their noses and ears cut off and deep knife cuts. The Turks leave their own killed and wounded on the battlefield, and they are now being treated in the Bulgarian hospitals, which are overflowing with wounded Turkish officers and men.
A Bulgarian officer’s divorced wife was court-mai;tialled for espionage, and shot with, two Macedonian spies on proofs of her complicity. Fugitives from Vlalii (28 miles southward, of the border) report that the Turks, before retiring when the Bulgarians approached, massacred a hundred inhabitants.
St. Petersburg reports that the Red Cross Society has voted £IOO.OOO for the care of the sick and wounded in the Balkans.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3665, 29 October 1912, Page 5
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184AN ARMY IN FLIGHT Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3665, 29 October 1912, Page 5
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