Turkish Misinformation.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 29, 1912:
Correspondents Elaborately Deceived at Front and in Capital.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 29.— Some curious misinformation has been served out to newspaper correspondents by the Turkish authorities. According to The Daily Mail's special correspondent at the Turkish Army headquarters at Tchorlu the correspondents are allowed to know nothing whatever of the progress of the fighting, are forbidden to leave the camp, and have to hold themselves at the absolute disposal of the military authorities.
    "Abdullah Pasha and the General Staff are supposed to be at headquarters," says this correspondent, "but we have not seen them."
    The Daily Chronicle's correspondent says:
    "The Generals hope and believe that the war will very soon be ended by a striking Turkish victory. I gather the impression that King Ferdinand is regarded as a man who launches thunderbolts and who has rushed blindly into an unreasonable war. Such a war, carried on at so great a distance from the base and without slow, methodical preparation, must, the Turkish officers hold, be not only dangerous to the Bulgarian Army, but probably fatal to the dynasty."
    The correspondent, evidently relying upon the same source of information, proceeds:
    "We shall soon be in a position to judge whether the Bulgarians, by the rapidity of their advance, have overreached themselves. The Turkish main army occupies an excellent strategical position for the struggle with King Ferdinand which is to decide the sovereignty of the Turkish Empire in Europe. If Servia, Greece, and Montenegro were not arrayed with Bulgaria against the Ottoman forces, there would be no doubt about the result, but the Commander in Chief has absolute confidence in the patriotism and fidelity of his troops and their ability to wipe out any who try to strike a blow at the heart of the Turkish Empire.
    "After the success which Abdullah Pasha has just achieved the Turks are convinced that Europe will very soon see the opening of a new and glorious page in the history of Turkish arms."
    The Daily Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent says the Minister of War and Commander in Chief, Nazim Pasha, who is now directing the opera-lions between Kirk-Kilisseh and Adrianople, has sent a message to the Sultan that he will either return completely victorious or die on the battlefield. His presence in the field, it is added, is reported to have produced great enthusiasm among the troops, with whom he is a popular hero.
    The Daily Mail's correspondent at Constantinople says:
    "Nazim Pasha telegraphs from the front that the situation of the Turkish forces near Kirk-Kilisseh is good, and the spirit of the troops is excellent. Azim Bey, Governor of Kirk-Kilisseh, who is said to have been responsible for the panic which broke out in that town, has been executed."