THE NEAR EAST.
1 Fighting in tho Near East has assumed a grim earnestness. Tho reports that are coming hand from day to day arc of a somewhat contradictory character. The Allies give us one story, the Turks another. If history s to be any guide for this campaign, the forces of Greece, Servia, Bulgaria xnd Montenegro are up against a stiff proposition. The Turkish army represents about a million of highly- ; trained men, while the Allies, at the vei-y outside, cannot place more than 645,000 In the field. Might, in this case, will bo right, and the Moslem forces who in 1877 scattered tho hosts of Russia to the four winds, and later silenced the Greeks, will' be hard to beat. The Allies may meet with temporary success; hut when the forces of Turkey are massed against them, the position will profitably be changed. The Turks arc desperate fighters, and know no defeat.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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154THE NEAR EAST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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