Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09
Young, Turks
Defiant.


last extremity this sec
Young Turks ond period promises to be
n.xA even more bloody than
that of October The COM
batan;s have not published a list of their
losses The Times of London publishes
the figures of it's correspondent at Sofia.
which have all the appearance OF being
official.
The list of Bulgarian victims reaches
2S4 offscers killed: wounded and sick $40:
total. i.1G0: soldiers killed, 21,01S; wound
ed ans sick. $1,000; total. 72,Ols.
The Bulgarians. who modified 100000
thus last i'm the campaign of less than one
month an enormous number. 1t is true
that q. per cent of the wounded We're re-
established in health and returned to
duty. The actual loss, therefore, would
be 3S,'sD. 1t was the third army which
cordins to the report of Gen. Dimtrief
1000 men were invaded in the lines of
Tchatlija; the numbers Of those who died
were 5000. Thus the number of dead
may hn placed at $1,000
1t is interesting to compare the Bulga-
rian l:'sses with those of the Japanese
not duting the period of the whole war I'm
Manci;lrla. for it would be difficult to
compare war of month with a war
of fourteen months. but. for example
March, 1903.
For an effective of 100000 men the
Japanese had 5000 killed and wounded.
or Ii Fer cent. consequently a higher rate
| than mat of the Bulsarians. which was
| 10 per cent. No report whatever has been
made # the Turkish losses. which must
| necessarily have been much higher.
| The estimated strength at present of
the Turkish forces. exclusive of those of
Adrfahople, Scutari and Janina, is as
lot Toh fo1i
stantii:ople, 10000: in the vicinity of the
Dardaaelles. $1,000; in the district of
lsmid. 10000; at Panderma on the Sea of
Marm"ra, 5000; at Smyrna. 12ooo; a total
hfths. or 10000, are .nizams'' and
"redifs regulars. or reservists of the first
class. The remainder consists of reserv-
lists of the second class, ''mustafiz'' and
1rreguiSrS having a doubtful military
value. The supply of ammunition is suf-
1cient, but there is lack of field cannon
horses and the means of transport which
renders impossible any offensive move
ment ca the part of this army. which has
not repaired its disasters of October.
MANY rumors are afioat concerning the
decentralization. even mutiny, that exists
n h Turkish
kum0rS OF army, which is
n.r,..,:4: seething with the
germ of revolt be-
cause of the assassination of Nazim
Pasha, its beloved commander-in-chief.
Enver Bey, who played such prominent
part in the revolution of the Young Turk,
has lost his place I'm the affections OF the
army. which connects him with the plot
agains; Nazim He is reported to have
attempted to win over the troops while
left 70 no do ri. If he
army st Hademkeul, but, the sod:ery
forc.bly prevented Enver from alightinS
from his Observation-Disclosures cited to
show the hopeless disaffection in the
ranks. Shukri Pasha, the Turkish COM
mandeI at Adranople. it is said. is caus-
ing an. inquiry to be made into NaZims
death. and when he can go to Con-
stantinnple he Will avenge the death OF
his friend.
That there is truth in these rumors the
Kolnische Zeitung of Berlin. sober and
conser, alive authority, prints picture OF
the Coi1StantinOple situation in the dark
est colors l. says that almost the entire
army Aas turned against Grand NiZier
Mahmoiid ShevSet Pasha- PerteV Pasha.
a pupil of Gen. Won der GoltZ. the organ
izer of the Turkish army. has completely
won th.. confidence of the troops on the
Tchatalja lines. and demands the punish
ment ot the murderers of Nazim PaSha.
The Kurdish cavalry at tonstantlnople
likewise as anu
arraye6f with the troops of Adrianople and
Tchatata against the murderers of Ma
Zim l. will not appear strange. there
fore if the leaders of the party of union
and progress should anticipate coming
events by crossing the Bosphorus into
Asia al the earliest moment.
The E7ulgarians are said in dispatch
from London dated the 4th instant To
have ..JG0O0 men in the province of
Thrace with 5000 Servians and perhaps
a few divisions of Greeks cooperating.
And the dispatch adds: The. greater part
of this force however, is compelled To re-
main iii front of Tchatalja and Gallipoli
in order to hold the Turkish armies con-
centrated at those places.
A dispatch from London the 81 instant
reports that Albanians numbering 10000
have taken the field under the command
OF Austrian officers They are reported
TO have fought battle at Dirba,
in which the Servians lost heavily.
THE effectiveness of the Albanans,' it
added f'was impaired by the wholesale
arrests among them of those who are sus-
pected IF being interested in the pro-
visional government
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