TURKISH FORCES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14522, 26 November 1912, Page 7

TURKISH FORCES.

MET TAKING HEART. SICKNESS AND MORTALITY DECREASING. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 24. Tne recent succcsts have heartened the Turks, and the men aro singing in the t, caches. Great piles of meat, and ammunition have accumulated. Despite tho horrors of cholera, tho Turks ary not anxious to employ foreign doctors, who are forced to commandeer wounded and sick to fill their' beds. Train-loads of thousands of sick are arriving daily in tlio city, though the sickness aud mortality at* the front are decreasing.

"AN ARMY OF RECRUITS."

BERLIN, November 24. General you der Goltz, late Director to tho 'Turkish Army, in an auuiess to the Asiatic Society, said that no attempt was made to maintain a modern army in Turkey till 1 yUB, when they get to work with much eagerness and industry, but without a rigut understanding or tne task. There was a lack of instructors, and after thirty years of letiinijy, tlio building up of a Homogeneous coi'i<s oi oiuceib Would luko years. Tno army that wa3 defeated in the Laikaqs was oniy au army of recru;t*>.

EX-MINISTERS ARRESTED

CONSTANTINOPLE, November 24. Four ex-Ministers have been arrested for plotting. lively important membor of tne Committee of Union and Progress will soon be under lock and koy.

NURSING THE STRICKEN,

AN ENGLISH' HEROINE. DESERTERS UNDER GUARD.' (Received November 25th, 10.45 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, November 25. Miss Alt, an old English lady, formerly ono of Lady Dufferin's nurses, is working alone at San Stefano camp, using her own funds for nursing tho stricken. Mr Rockhill, the United States Ambassador, has . offered American Red Cross funds to organise a camp. Tho cholera at Tchataldcha is rapidly decreasing. A pitiful spectacle is presented at the four Mosques in Stamboul, whero deserters crowd the railings like caged creatures. Cordons with bayonets fixed prevent them from breaking put.