Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-15
Ottoman Government Ready to
Make Almost Any ConCes-
sions to Keep Diseased Sol
diers Out of Capital.
THOUSANDS SENT TO
ASIATIC SETTLEMENT
Fugitives From Europe Return
ing to Ancient Homes in Same
Manner They Migrated Five
Centuries Ago.

INV Morning journal >.,-.-n LAased Wire I
London, Nov. 1J.-Either for mil
itary reasons or on account Of the
cholera which is spreading rapidly at
Hademeui, the government, the Con-
stantinople correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph declares, is prepared to
make large concessions in order to
prevent the Balkan armies from en-
tering Constantinope.
An uncensored dispatch from Con-
stantincplc to the Reuter- Telegram
Company says the cholera is extend
ine alarmingly among the troops. The
cases are reckoned by the hundreds
while among the refugees there are
even more victims.
In Constantinople, adds the dis
patch, the disease is difficult to con-
trol. one train alone brought 100
patients from San Stefano. They were
conveyed to the Lazaretto at Beycos,
on the Bosphorus. The bodies OF
twenty soldiers who had died OF chol-
era were taken from the same train.
Many trains have returned from the
front with soldiers who are not
wounded, but are in state OF physl-
cal collapse owing to exhaustion due
to exposure and lack of food. The
sights at some of the stations near
Tchatalja are unnerVlng. Cholera
victims crawl to the station for wa
ter or in the hope of getting to Con
stantinople They can be seen lying
about in every stage of the injection
The greater danger that threatens
Constantinople is that the water sup
ply from Lake Derkes may become
contaminated. only few cases nave
been reported up to the present
among the people in the capital ana
il would seem that the disease Is not
the deadlest form of Asiatio cholera,
as Notwithstanding the unfaNorable
condition to which the army is ex-
posed. so per cent of the cases have
recovered.
The authorities are doing their best
to rid the capital as quickly as possl-
hle Of the influx of refugees. They
are being dispatched at the rate OF
several thousand daily to the ports or
Ghemlik and Moudania, or by rail TO
koniseh The active interest OF the
authorities ends with the removal or
the poor exies, and absolutely no
provision has been made foi food
supplies. The refugees are simply
dumped into the towns on the coast
or in the interior and are left to find
forage for themselves.
Fortunately the Moslem population
is naturally charitable and will share
the last crust with the wandering rug
itives.
"One thought strikes an observer
forcihly at seeing the people migrat-
ing back to their ancient home,' says
the correspondent. namely, how lit
tie altered after 500 years are tae
Wanderers returning practically in the A
same manner in which they came TO !
Europe five centuries ago-the same
rough wooden carts dragged by bull
locks or buffalo and covered with
straw mating which conceals the
household lumber, and the female
members of the family hunehed into
the smallest conceivable space, peer
ng with sad eyes at the unfamiliar 1
sights while the sheep and goats are
prevented from straying by the >
youngsters of the family "