AN ANTI-TURKISH BRITISHER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 272, 21 October 1912, Page 5

AN ANTI-TURKISH BRITISHER.

(lleceil c<i 21. N. !■> .4 ■ m ) London, (hl. 2 (| . Mr. Mastermiin. M I’.. speak ing at Bethnal Green, made a strong ant i-Turkish speci h that, if Britain hud another epport unil y of intervention. sin- must not as in !‘"(7S put her money on tin- wrong horse. BIDTIbH I! F.l I ( lit |h h T< HI S. LEAVE FOB Till; I l!O\'l" (Received 2!, a.m,) London, <>i,t. i'o. Drs. Gold'-iniHi and Bradford leave to night an a second Red Cross unit for Montenegro on Friday. Sir E. Cassell is det raying the cost of three units for Turkey and conveyance thither. NOTES (i\ THE WAR. Tin; one outstanding fact from the military point of \ icu wit h regard to the .situation in the Balkans is that hostilities of an important, character are taking place at Mustapha. Pacha, on the direct railway route Io Constantinople. 11 was stated in ;,i recent cable that the Bulgarians outnumber tlie Turks in this district by two to one. It is impossible, however. to estimate the actual nmnbcrs of the troops which are eonfrouted there. The complete mobilisation nf the Biilgariari forces cannot fall nint h short of half a million men.. But not all of these will have been able to reach the frontier. A moderate estimate would place the actual numbers available for an immediate advance towards Adrianople at 2<„X),• 900, ami, according to t.he statement in the ea|d«* above referred to, the Turkish soldiers would number 100,000. If the Turks remain on the defensive, as they will probably do, the Bulgarians will clearly need a force at. least twice as large as the Turkish army. /Adrianople is< the third largest city in European Turkey, its population is aijoiit 100,000, of whom half are Turks, about 20,(XX) Jews, and the rest Greeks, Bulgars, Arnienians. etc. It is only a few,, miles from the Bulgarian frontier at Mustapha Pm ha. and i*. defended by a ring of powerful modern forts. It occupies both banks of the river Tunja at its confluence with the Maritza, which is navigable, to this point in spring ami winter. Adrianople is on the railway from Belgrade and Sofia to Constantinople and Salonika. It is only iihoiir Hl7 miles front Constant inoplr. and its importance from a strategical point of view is therefore apparent. In appearance it is thoroughly Oriental a, mass of mean, irregular wooden buildings, threaded by narrow, tortuous street-s. The town was occupied by the Russians in 1829, Mid also itt 1878.