THE TURKISH ARMIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15130, 22 October 1912, Page 7

THE TURKISH ARMIES.

A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. TOTAL .OF 700,000 MEN EXPECTED. ADVANTAGE OF ALLIES' DELAY" (Received October 21, 11.40 p.m.) London, October 21. The Constantinople correspondent of the Times states that 700,000 Turks will be with the colours at the end of October. • Twelve thousand are passing over the European railways daily, irrespective of the infantry which is marching by various routes. Bulgaria gave Turkey an unexpected ten days' breathing space, thus enabling the Turkish general staff to get many large portions of their troops together. !;. The Observer's Salonika correspondent estimates that the Macedonian army will number 170,000, of which Hassia Tahsin Pasha will have command of 30,000 in defending the Greek frontier. AH Nabir Pasha will have 40,000 men on the Struma Kiver (Bulgaria), and Zeki Paßha 100,000 between Kupili and Uskub. The totals are being rapidly augmented by the Asia Minor redifs, and the fortnight's delay, the correspondent states, is costing the allies dear. Zeki Pasha is expected to fight his way to Sofia, via Egrig' Palank'a, assisted by 40,000 Albanian irregulars.' ''•.'• A difficulty is being experienced in regard to the commissariat arrangements for the western armyowing to. the failure of the harvest. The situation in Macedonian villages is reported to be pitiful. Tho Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that he has heard that the rebels in Macedonia are in command. of the Salonika highway, and that they have dynamited the bridges along great stretches of the railway. Sir Ernest Cassell is defraying the cost of the sending of three Bed Cross units for service with the Turkish . forces.