“The Turkish fortress of Kirk Kilisseh has fallen⁠ ⁠… The Serbs, it is officially announced, have taken Kumanovo⁠ ⁠… The fortress of Kirk Kilisseh lost, Kumanovo taken by the Serbs, these are tiding for Constantinople resembling something out of Shakespeare’s tragedies of the kings⁠ ⁠… The neighbourhood of Adrianople and the Eastern region, where the great battle is now in progress, will not reveal merely the future of Turkey, but also what position and what influence the Balkan States are to have in the world.”