TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE WOUNDED
HOSPITAL SURGEON'S STATEMENTS.
(Rec. Nov. 8, 9.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7. . Defeated troops are arriving m a desperate state, having been foodless for three days „ ,' There was great terror at Stampoui till the'arrival of the foreign warships The authorities are organising assistance to prevent disturbances. The Ohristian Ottomans are chiefly imperilled. •Correspondents describe the terrible sufferings' of many of the Turkish Sounded after the hasty field dressing and the journeying on the congested roads to Chorlu. n , , ,„ X hospital surgeon from Chorlu declares that he never saw a battlefield, so „Sv covered with dead and wounded There was no possible succour, and it'.was simplv appalling and a, mere shambles. Meanwhile detachments .of cavalry dashed, among the unbounded Stives, driving them back to MufchtafPaSs force" which was also being stre'Shened from Rodosto hope of "-turning the Bulgarian position.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 8 November 1912, Page 5
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