Photo by Frederick Moore 

 ON THE (former) TURKO-BULGARIAN BORDER: A BRIDGE OVER THE. RIVER STRUMA, 

 THE CENTER OE WHICH WAS THE BORDER LINE; A TURKISH SOLDIER 

 ON THE LEFT AND A BULGARIAN ON THE RIGHT 



The foreign-educated ofificer of the ]:)res- 

 ent day spends too much of his time in 

 the cafes and the foreisT^n restaurants of 

 Pera, and too little in the camp of his 

 soldiers. 



I saw on one occasion a young Turkish 

 doctor, immaculately dressed, wearing a 

 high collar on the field, refuse to touch 

 a line of 20 or 30 invalided men hccause 

 they were too dirty for him to handle. 

 To my knowledge these men had had 

 hardly sufficient water to drink and no 

 opportunity whatever to wash. 



THE HORROR OF THE CHOLERA CAMPS 



Conditions in the cholera cam])s — 

 which I had occasion to describe in my 

 dispatches to the Associated Press dur- 



ing the month of November — were final 

 proof, if proof were needed, of the hope- 

 less incapacity of the Turks. There is a 

 measure of excuse even for massacres, 

 Mohammedans believing that they do not 

 offend God by slaughtering "infidels;" 

 but could there be any excuse for permit- 

 ting thousands of their own soldiers to 

 die without taking the trouble to give 

 them water? 



The scene at San Stefano was horrible 

 almost beyond conception. For weeks 

 train-loads not only of sick but wounded 

 men and men with frozen feet were 

 dumped down at this summer watering 

 place on the Marmora. Those who were 

 able to walk entered the cordon of death 

 without assistance ; those unable were 



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