Imperial Valley press., 1912-11-06

nora will arrive in time to prevent 4
holocaust, but it is by no means GER
tain.
News from the Turkish capital is of
the most alarming character. The con-
tinued rumors of Turkish defeat IN
the field has exasperated the most quiet
of the population and hostility to
Europeans and Christians increases
hourly. 1t is shown more openly and
arrogantly as the days pass. The low
er classes express fierce animosity with
no attempt at concealment. Some OF
the members of the workmen's guilds
openly boast that they have taken a
sacred oath to massacre every Chris
tian in Constantinople should the Bui-
garians enter the city.
The Ologiala students, always a dan
gerous element, are preaching to ia
natical mobs in out of the way mosques
and having them swear on the Koran
a terrible vengeance against the Chris
tians.
They refer to the ancient belief that
the Turks will possess Constantinople
for 500 years, after which the Euro
peans are to take the city. The
prophecy goes on to say that according
to the prophets command, the true be-
levers are to massacre the infidels be-
fore they leave. Hostile demonstra-
tions are being organized in secret anu
every night now there are outrages
committed.
crowd of Kurds and other ruff
fans well armed with swords, bayo-
nets and revolvers gathered Sunday
night at a place called Seven Towers
and after deliberation decided TO march
against the Christian quarter. Fortu-
nately. the police learned of the plans
in time. interviewed and arrested mum
Der of the leaders, who will be tried by
court martial
News of terrible massacres and pill
lage comes from the provinces. The
patriarch of the Greek church has re-
ceived word that the towns of Rodosto
il, full of Bashu Bazouks who are com
hitting all sorts of outrages. The
metropolitan applied TO the governor
OF the town to stop the outrages, but
he replied that he could do nothing
while the war was going on. The
patriarch has now applied to the porte.
Crowds Of wounded and starving
soldiers continue to arrive at Constan-
tinople. They openly advise their COM
rades who have not yet been sent 10
the front TO refuse to face the enemy,
as the Bulgarians will annihilate them.
The remarkable story of the battle
of Lule Burgas, in which 10000 Turk.
were killed and wounded by the vic
torius Bulgarians, is confirmed by Mar
tin H. Donohue, the correspondent of
the Daily Chronicle, who, cabling from
Constanza. says:
Turkey is confronted with
wrecked army and the prospective ruin
of her empire in Europe. Now that
national calamity has oVertaken her
the number of prophets who foresaM
her approaching dissolution is increas-
ing daily. Abduliah Pasha was one Of
those who knew that the Turkish army
was a colossus, with feet Of clay, but
brave soldier that he is, although his
heart was heavy with sorrow at the
certain knowledge that he was fore
doomed to failure, he did not shirk his
duty, as did his brother generals, 10
whose notorious incompetency when
holding high ministerial office the la
mentable disorganization of today 8,
due.
Already the finger of odium is point
ed at Abdullah Pasha.
The beaten general is still giving
ground before the victorious BulgarianS.
There has been no respite for the har-
ried remnant of the Turkish army.
Onward, ever onward" cry its pur-
suers The Bulgarian cannon thunders,
Unsuitable death takes its toll hourly
of the battle tattered wreck of what
once were soldiers, but all of whose
feeble energies are now devoted to
fleeing for their very lives over the
wide Thracian plain. up the steep and
rocky slopes of Tchorlou 10 its wide
plateau and down the other side and
across the stony valley which leads
toward Tchataldje.
The broken army is crawling. II
can no longer run. Days and nights Of
awful suffering have reduced its gait
10 a mere totter. The track Of the
fleeing Turkish army is paved with
dead and dying on the way from
Tchorlou while u was still daylight I
came across the half devoured bodies
Of many horses which could not have
succumbed more than two hours, and
-huddered TO think OF the fate of
The men who had fallen dying by the
wayside
The enemy throughout the brief
campaign. has shown astonishing &C.
Ieritv in pursuit Their advance guard
never has been far from the rear Of the
retreating army.
"Tchataldje Is being rapidly provis-
toned and furnished with munitions of
war There always has been an album
dance of war material and army sup
plies available in Constantinople. but
as the Turks do not possess a properly
equipped intelligence department these
supplies have reposed undisturbed in
the capital II was no ones business
to send them to the front That is one
reason why Turkey paid the penalty of
disastrous death in the rout of her
army.
Once through the Tchataldje lines
nothing can stop the army of King
Ferdinand unless the powers intervene,
from making a dramatic entry into the
capital. Napoleon, it is known, cher
ished the ambition of tearing down the
CT escent and planting the cross again
On the Minarets of St. Sofia. The Ma
poleon of Bulgaria is fired with a SINH
lar ambition, which lends additional
significance to his proclamation that
this is a war of cross against crescent.
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