New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
drive the Turks out and TO make Con
)stantinople a neutral city.
RETREAT OF THE
BEATEN TURKISH ARMY

patCh TO 'Ine CnrOnlCIe i"AiA
Turkish lines, dated Tchatald1a' NO
vember 7, by courier to Constanza' ar
irving In London at 1919 p. M on
Friday, Martin Henry Donohue says:
I. "Abdullah Pacha's army has retreated
until 1t can retreat no further. "A wall
OF sbayonets now intervenes between
the fugitive force and the approaches
10 the capital, and headlong ana as
ordered fight has been arrested by the
action of the government. The minis
4ers have mustered what raw levies
they can and have sent them to hold
4he roads converging on San Stefano
and STEAMBOAT
THE survivors Of Abdullah's force
therefore find themselves at bay. caught
between the Bulgarian Charybdis and
the Turkish Scylla. and are making
frantic efforts TO put their defences IN
order against the advance of the stray
,Rlers on the capital
Bulgarisns, Too, Need Rest
THE beaten army arrived at Tcha-
.taldia utterly demOralized and ready TO
fly even further, but were exhausted
and the Bulgarians did not press the
pursuit from Tchorlu with the vigor
exhibited in the earlier phases of the
fight, the reason being, probably, that
the Bulgarians themselves are badly IN
need Of rest and recuperation after the
terrible, sustained fighting Of the last
week. -
. THE road from Tchorlu 10 Tcha-
taldja,is at best but mud track ana
is now converted by rain into a quag-
mtre and a quagmire choked win ali
the fotsam and jetsam Of beaten anu
retreating army, abandoned transport
material. dead horses and an occa-
sional field guns
I'm the retreat from Tchorlu the nom
combatant fugitives were hopelessly
mixed with the army, thus accentuat-
ing the confusion of the rout The
stream continued every hour, day and
night. Most Of them were frost bitten,
wind blistered and in the last stages OF
WEAKNESS and hunger, covered with
mud from head TO foot
ut is difficult to estimate the num-
her Of those who persisted in the con-
Guiding stage of this terrible forced
march toward Tchataldja, but 1t must
be enormous. The usually placid
Turkish soldier becomes dangerous
desperado when maddened by starVa-
ton. Every house and hut along the
line of retreat was searched in the
hope of finding a fragment of food,
for even a crust Of stale bread is
prize.
Horses Eaten Raw.
1.-The horses which were killed or
which died from exhaustion were eat
en- raw by the famished soldiers. Many
OF the fugitives lost all sense Of direc-
ton. and small parties leaving Tchorlu
ignorant of the lay Of the country
marched along the railway line, their
benumbed senses realizing that 1t must
lead somewhere.
Scores, after tramping short dis
lance. dropped exhausted on the track.
and the last train from Tchorlu had to
proceed with extreme caution, or II
would have decapitated many who had
fallen on the lines. This train was
hastily filed with wounded and with
women and children refugees, and car
ried also Abdullahs staff. the foreign
attaches and a few newspaper corre-
spondents.
Women and children were packed 20
closely in the cars that many were bad
~ crushed. and some were actually
asphyxlated, on the Journey owing to
The slow pace Of the train, fugitives
aad soldiers who had sufficient energy
left clambered on it. This happened
every few hundred yards until every
inch of space was occupied.
Even to the front of the engine and
to the footboards OF the carriages men
chung with the energy Of despair.
Others managed to climb on the roofs
of the carriages. where they hung like
dies, Some Of these were jolted off as
the train rounded curve, and were
either killed or badly hurt.
Three Miles an Hour.
owing to the clInging mass Of fugt.
tives little Of the train was visible
beyond the funnel OF the locomotive.
It's average speed was three miles an
hour over one section. Owing to It's
funeral pace fears were entertained
that the train would be captured by
Bulgarians.
"A STAFF officer who got into panic
and utterly lost his head gave orders to
uncouple and abandon the carriages
IN which the wounded were being car
rled. Hearing this. the two medical
officers who were in charge OF the in
tured men drew their revovers and
threatened to shoot the officer and the
driver OF the train as well II the in
situations were enforced.
Under the menace of the leveiled
revoivers the officers surrendered. ana
the carriages Of the wounded were re-
coupled to the train, which then re-
supned It's journey eastward. When
the wounded died during the journey
the bodies were lifted out of the train
and laid by the wayside at the first
opportunity to give additional room to
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