The Brunswick times., 1896-05-09

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seems to be straightforward and sincere,
frank and truth loving. Trickery and
intrigue, diplomacy and politics he alike
detests. His subordinates and those
who see him moro intimately are very
fond of him.
"'He treats us, one of the aids-de-
camp said to me, mot as a superior, but
as a father Edhem Pasha is very
proud of his army.
"'The Greeks report. he said, that
we have no cavalry They should see
our Circassian horsemen.
GA band of Greek irregulars had
crossed the frontier and fired on the
Turkish troops. l asked him whether
there was any chance of reprisals
"'No, he answered proudly I'VE do
not make war in that dirty fashion.
"Edhem Pasha understands war thor
oughly, but it took him little time to
appreciate the functions of a war corre-
spondent. He seemed to think that the
latter should be hedged about by many
restrictions, tenderly fostered, and safe
ly deposited during a battle among the
baggage animals and knights of the
hospital. 1t was some time before he
realized that the expectation of Witness
ing and describing battle was the one
thing which procured him the honor Of
these gentlemen s company in his camp.
One anxious morning, at time when
war was thought to be imminent, on
sending round to headquarters it appear
ed that the general and all his staff had
fled during the night and had gone no
man would say whittier No orders had
been left, and the guards would allow
no one to pass. Here was a case of dire
disappointment, but no man may run
the gantlet Of an Albanian guard with
impunity. When the general returned,
a joint representation was made, and he
was entreated to allow this kind of
thing not to occur again. He expressed
his penitence and promised timely
warning of any unexpected move"
G. W. Stevens, correspondent Of the
London Daily Mail, has this to say of
the Turkish army:
''The first impression Of the Turkish
army on an ignorant mind is one of
melancholy. The men are so old. The
Beers at Krugersdorp said it went
against the grain to have to shoot
young men. But surely tie spectacle of
these middle aged privates is far more
pathetic. AS you ride down the long,
dark coated, dusty gathered, loose sam
daled lines, nearly every man must be
the father Of a family. Brown bearded,
solidly set, almost stiffening into elder
illness, steady eyed, but sober eyed and
grave, with ffaCes speaking Of The tolls
and dim perplexities of half lifetime
who are these to be called away from
their sheep pens and their opium gar
dens to meet bullets and shell?
81 know nothing of war; but to me
it seems natural that war should be for
the young. In our own army it is differ
ent. A man chooses to be a soldier; it
is his trade, and he must live by it; if
he ties himself up with wife and chill
dren, he does it at his own risk and at
theirs. But these men have come from
the hills of Macedonia, from the Mar
mora, from distant Angora and Trebi-
zond, because they must. 1t is not their
chosen life, yet they have no other. From
20 to 34--in war time even until DO
one month, two months, six months,
eight months almost every year they
must turn out on to bleak mountains to
defend their race and their faith against
disaffection at home and menace abroad.
"Smart, it must oe owned, the Turk
ish army is not l saw battery start
ing for the frontier the other day. The
gun carriages and the horses were piled
up with ragged bundles, beside which
bank holiday excursionist's baggage
is model Of trimness. When a battal-
ion lines up on parade, you will see one
man in a blue faced uniform and anoth-
er in a green. Their sandals look like
old list slippers, their CATERS like bad
ly wound hospital bandages. They are
tied up with loose ends of string. In
the marching regiments, and especially
those of the reserve, the officers are
sometimes out at elbow and at knee.
1.-THE men move a little heavily at
their drill, and their double gives an
impression Of rheumatism. What won
der in a peasant of five and thirty? But
all these are small matters. The uni
forms maS be curious, but they are