TURKS RESIGNED TO THEIR FATE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 5

TURKS RESIGNED TO THEIR FATE.

(Received 9.10.) Constantinople, November 17.. Envoy Bey and all other Turkish officers in Tripoli have entered the service of Sheikh Renussi. A spirit of fatalism prevails in Constantinople, and officials are apparently resigned to the idea that European Turkey, including Roumelia, is hopelessly lost. Nevertheless, the troops are still being ordered to the front, and frantic efforts are being made to reorganise the army with a view to better terms of peace. Nazim Pasha is urging peace at any price in the sole hope of saving Com stantiople from the presence of invaders. All correspondents are agreed that no atrocities marked the Turkish retreat. Villages were only burnt when necessary to prevent the cnc'ny finding provisions and shelter. Excited crowds occupy the housetops listening to the fifing, which is audible throughout the city. Turkish warships were engaged all Saturday shelling Bulgarian detachments along the coast of the Sea of Marmora. Refugees state that the position rf Rodosto, was destroyed by fire. A large number of cholera patients were placed in a mosque, St. Sophia, and surrounded by an army cordon.