TURKEY’S DEFENCE FORCES
A COP/IPLETE MOBILISATION. TROUBLESOME ELEMENT SILENCED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 11. Mobilisation is proceeding rapidly and smoothly. Nazim Pasha has been placed in supreme command. It is estimated that in a week hence 140,000 Anatolian troops will be concentrated in European Turkey, making a total of 400,000. Men, guns, and ammunition are being poured into the district between Adrianople and Kirkilisse, behind a chain or forts devised bv Yon Der Goltz in 1909. Tho Turks have armed the Pomaki Bulgarians, who, under Ahmedagsa, were responsible for the Batak massacre in 1877. Tho Porte, by enrolling students, has silenced the troublesome clement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3653, 14 October 1912, Page 5
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102TURKEY’S DEFENCE FORCES Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3653, 14 October 1912, Page 5
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