MEN AFTER KITCHENER’S HEART.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3691, 28 November 1912, Page 5

MEN AFTER KITCHENER’S HEART.

THE BULGARIANS BEFORE

ADRIANOPLE.

WONDERFUL SYSTEM AND METHODS.

A CORRESPONDENT’S STORY

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] (Received Nov. 27, 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. The "Daily Telegraph" reports that Mr Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, inspected the investment of Adrianople and states that floods are causing the delay. Tiie Bulgarians Imve gained much ground to the south-east of Arda and Maritza and are now tackling the inner lines of Turkish forts. Adrianople will soon, be hemmed in by a circle of fire less than three miles distant. Mr Burleigh _ says the Bulgarian military methods would have rejoiced the heart of Ktichener. Roads and bridges have been made to facilitate transport” and signposts have been erected everywhere. Food is abundant and soup, meat and vegetables are distributed twice daily. The camps are clean and well-placed and the troops are snug under canvas while dugouts provide secure quarters for the gunners and men in the firing lines. There is an enormous number of trenches. ~ The Bulgarians, with fine daring, pushed their skirmishers within 500 yards of the Turkish position, the men in many instances crawling forward and employing the earth work shelter as rifle pits similar to the methods of the Japanese in Manchuria. Here'and there Turkish shells made holes eight feet deep and loft wide. There are millions of empty cartirdges, but otherwise no signs of fighting, even the dead horses being interred immediately. j

TURKS FIRING WOODEN BULLETS.

AN AMAZING DISCOVERY

(Received Nov. 27, 11.15 p.m.) BELGRADE, Nov. 27. Ten thousand prisoners have been captured at Monastic by Servian detachments. The Turks are surrendering daily. William Le Onex-, the novelist, states that he found Turkish wooden bullets on a Macedonian battlefield.

War correspondents at Kumanovo report that they discovered cases of wooden cartridges really intended for manoeuvres.