With the Turks in Thrace | 1913 1e edition | This book is intended as a record of those dramatic days my brother and myself passed with the Turkish Army in Thrace during the battle of LuIe Burgas and in the subsequent retreat on the lines of Chataldja. I, Ashmead-Bartlett E.

With the Turks in Thrace

Ashmead-Bartlett E.

E. Ashmead-Bartlett special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” author of “Port Arthur, the siege and capitulation”, “The passing of the Shereefian Empire”. In Collaboration with Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett

Published by William Heinemann, hardcover, illustrated, with large folding colour map
Binding some minor wear, endpaper a little foxed.

PREFACE
This book is intended as a record of those dramatic days my brother and myself passed with the Turkish Army in Thrace during the battle of LuIe Burgas and in the subsequent retreat on the lines of Chataldja. I have to acknowledge my great indebtedness to him for the assistance he has given me in writing parts of it, and also in preparing it for publication.

My thanks are also due to the Daily Telegraph for allowing me to reproduce articles which originally appeared in its columns.
Since the last chapter was in print the revolt of the Young Turkish party against Kiamil's Government, because of its decision to surrender Adrianople to the Bulgarians-foreshadowed in the last chapter-has actually taken place, and Nazim Pasha, the late Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, has been assassinated.

Whether the Young Turks will endeavour to carry on the war only the future can show, but all the arguments set forth in the concluding chapter against such a course of action still hold good, and a revolution in Constantinople in no wise alters the strategical and financial objections to a renewal of the campaign. Turkey's European Provinces and the fortress of Adrianople are irrevocably lost, and any effort to regain them can only lead· to further disasters.
E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT.
LONDON: January 26th, 1913.

CONTENTS
I W ATTING FOR THE WAR
II SCENES IN CONSTANTINOPLE
III THE EFFORTS OF DIPLOMACY
IV THE MILITARY HISTORY OF THE TURKS
V THE MODERN TURKISH ARMY
VI THE AUTHORITIES AND THE CORRESPONDENTS
VII THE EARLY OPERATIONS
VIII DEPARTURE OF THE CORRESPONDENTS FOR THE FRONT
IX My JOURNEY TO CHORLOU
X My FIRST MEETING WITH ABDULLAH
XI LULE BURGAS-THE FIRST DAY
XII LULE BURGAS-THE SECOND DAY
XIII THE ROUT
XIV HOW WE SENT THE STORY OF THE BATTLE
XV THE RETREAT FROM CHORLOU TO CHATALDJA
XVI THE MIGRATION OF A PEOPLE
XVII THE CAPTURE OF RODOSTO
XVIII THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER
XIX THE CHOLERA
XX THE ATTACK ON CHATALDJA
XXI THE TURN OF THE TIDE
XXII THE WAR AGAINST THE CORRESPONDENTS
XXIII THE FUTURE OF THE TURKS