Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-18
More Than a thousand Cases
Daily nand Around Constan-
tiAopIe, Death Rate Reaching
Fifty Per Cent,
Bull GARIAN ADVANCE
HALTED BY DISEASE
Scenes of Indescribable Suffer
ing in Stricken District Due
to Ravages Of the Terrible
MaIady.

[By Morning Jonrnai sp~crnI LEASED Wire
Constantinople, Nov. 17.-'By indl-
rect route. uncenSored )-There are
more than a thousand new cases OF
cholera daily in and around Constan-
tinople and the death rate has reach
ed so per cent. The authorities are
powerless to cope with the situation
ON Thursday last 1000 cholera pa
tients arrived by train at san Stefano.
They would have been brought here
but for the protests of the railway
company, and the Austrian arnhassa-
dor asked that they be sent to the
lazarettes at Becos and Ismidt
For twenty-four hours the patients
remained in the train on a siding at
San Stefano without water, food or
medical attention. Then they were
shipped to the quarantine station. If
they had been lower animals they
could not have been more neglected.
Yesterday a foreign doctor, assist
ing in the temporary hospital, discov-
cred by accident that five soldiers
dying of cholera had been placed
among the wounded. He ordered
their removal. Bearers took up the
their condition was such that the doe
tor ordered the bearers to drop them.
This they did and the unfortunates
We're left lying in the mud for an
hour. groanng and in commissions,
before they We're removed on stretch
ers
An extraordinary feature of condi-
tons behind the Turkish lines at
Tchatalja is the indifference. The
foreigners. wearing either a fez or an
European hat. may hire vehicle and
drive to the Turkish entertainments
and inspect the troops. There ap
pears to be no Gordon to prevent fugi-
tives from returning to Constantine
pie.
Several foreign officers who visited
the lines Thursday and Friday report
the situation hopeless. The trenches
are only partly dug. A huge pile of
harbed wire is stacked near the en-
dangered northern wing, never hav-
ing been put to use. The troops, fof
the most part, are unable to work
because cholera-infected soldiers are
keeping watch in the earthworks.
Innumerable sick lie groaning in
the fields to the rear, some OF tnem
in their last agonies. Countless chol-
era infected fugitives are struggling
on the fan-shaped road converging on
Hademkeui from the outer forts.
Thousands of patients and hundreds
of dead lie on the ground near Had
AT Derkos lake, the chief source of
water supply. there
was a guard Of soldiers. but twelve of
them died and fifteen others were
stricken with cholera Thursday
night. There is great fear that the
whole watershed win be contami-
mated involving Constantinople in the
greatest danger.
The three physicians at Derkos
have been unable to do more than
bury the dead. Turkish officers re-
gard further resistance at Tchatalja
rs impossible, but think II is equally
impossible for the Bulgarians TO oc
cupy the Turkish positions without
nndangerine the whole Bulgarian
army through cholera.
Among the cholera victims who
have arrived from the front is Gen
eral Ahmed Risa Bey, president of
the Turkish parliament.