"BUT YESTERDAY."

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14909, 29 November 1912, Page 2

"BUT YESTERDAY."

CHEERI-TL CONSTANTINOPLE. WELCOMES ITS CHOWN PRINCE. "WAR SOON TO END. I have just returned from the port, where i have watched,, perhaps, the most picturesque .scene I have yob witnessed —Constantinople's welcome to the heir-apparent. Prince Yussuf lasodin. which, took pla-ce only a few hours after the official announcement of the conclusion of peace with Italy tiiis morning (states a correspondent under dale October Kith . The Turkish Press also ouoted reports from Vienna, of the defeat of Montenegrin troops, and this, added to tho enthusiasm of tho liom-lnee. A RED TIDE, From Galaia Bridge, all along the high-spiked railings past the Customs House, thousands of fezzes, of all shades from the bright rerl of the children's little caps to the dull maroon

of the lieadwear that has seen much service. It Ho wed steadily, like an irresistible red tide; it moved steadily over Galata Brkh/o. overflowed into the side streets and Hooded all the narrow thorough fares leading to tho docks. Merc " ami there.. bobbing amongst the red, were turbans of the country i'o'k. who .retain, the ancient custom, whil'-t it was rarely that one detected a green band, which is traditionally worn by those claiming direct descent from Mahommod. .Mont': the street loading from the dock gates -were drawn tin in double rows swarthv rroons the ends of whose grey wooden hoofis. their hashliks being bound around the head instead of ha!';-!; l .'.': hm.-o. showed that '.he men cave from the Persian frontier near Tr hi rondo. Prcsumablv. they arrived yesterday !:y sea in the big transport TIIE LEARNED MEN. Near the dock gates was a group of wkdo-turoamd doctors of law, "liodias." eorree> i; :;dli!g apparently to the Jewish s'-i'iii.v;. 'The sun. which was clouded all the raorulm. . d:o;:o out as the -ddo came a'o---.;'!■.. ;;.: ! Hi un nui^idlicenrlv the 1.-.:u'i --..uutcd 'amarers 'and all tho ;>■■• '•-;"' : eiaw ■; of LTeous and browns and rei'f- a:.d'-warning whites, and ibe hire c ,' the wider, which makes up tho [ A few mint:-as later th"ie passed down lias gangway a laughing, plcsair. rather hauasomo. and somewhat portly geiule.nan in plain fez and "Tiie 'JJow'd" Standard ? Ilaocd tiently d '.vi: i'r. a the niast, and the wiiole of rai-Mc:-. and :.; r.a'okiing, on cab-seat. true'.-.-:. Tii.i:;:. had even precariously s,reded •!• ;':■■■■ -.< ,;::irs of cabdiorses — broke luio shoui-■. which, as I write, i''.i-]\- an l.ovr ! wcr. still eclio across the ,--:.,' !;-,i!': Sramhoui vo IVra Hdl. R-. is a groat day for the city, i'or :'",e co! .•!'.:'N : r>7i of ih" "Italian peace removes die chh f anaiotv. optimism. '" With the liti!.' Balkan armies we shad soon make an end.'' is tho genorally e:<pr;->cd. helled for the troops which for days have been pouring through the ciiy hy land and water give the depress:"!) of an instrument m.t so uuoiy pointed, perhaps, as j Egro'ggra arndi■.». ban overwhelming j by it-: c•■•'o-.sa! proportions and appar- I Thai, is the prevailing impression \ creai-d. vo. in the minds of the j pvneie. T.e h;gee<ij:uo rights and v. rwrg or' !'ie err,- do not cemeorn them in their thploeia Lie niceties. .Somewhere, liny conceive, some external irrpants. which have long the Kmpiro's skin, have become too troublesome : now the giant has turned hi I:is sleep, ard will reach out his hand 'di •-.■■;.. as becomes his bulk and ar.eie.'t dignity. Presently the arm. now : err tea;;'::: fro-:u the uttermost I pewts of tiif Eroniro to Cunstantinonlo, : an.l thence to the Bulgarian frontier, '.will have'ig-ttondwd far enough. The | tinkers will open, and •■ these little. | irrhat ma; peoples will be crushed i wholly and for ever." unless Eurone ' wdh olherwiso. and then, as the Turk- ; l-li Press points out to-day. localisation ! of this war is thought improbable. I "When passing through Bucharest. I adds Router, the Crown Prince stated ithai. he was travelling through Rou- ■ mania without fear, as if lie were in j Ids own country.