Turks Badly Prepared.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 26, 1912:
Quarrels Among Officers Also Said to Hamper Operations.
    LONDON, Saturday, Oct. 20.— Dispatches from Vienna, St. Petersburg, and other European capitals, in the London morning newspapers, ascribe the Turkish defeats to lack of proper organization of their troops, absence of necessary supplies and food, and to quarrels between the Turkish War Minister, Nazim Pasha, and Abdullah Pasha, commander of the army in Thrace, the former regarding the Macedonian war centre as the more important, and Abdullah Pasha desiring to concentrate the army's efforts in Thrace.
    The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent, writing under date of Sunday, describes the transport difficulties which have resulted, he says, in the army in Thrace being short of all necessities, without which, he declares, it is impossible to commence a forward movement on a large scale. He estimates that it will be a fortnight before the Commissariat will permit the army in Thrace to take the offensive.
    The correspondent says it is rumored that there is an outbreak of cholera among the Turkish troops, the disease being brought among them by regiments coining from Aleppo and Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey.
    The Turks still declare that the evacuation of Kirk-Kilisseh was a "strategical retirement," a phrase which became familiar during the Russian retreat in Manchuria. If, as the Bulgarians say, only 50,000 Asiatic troops have so far reached the theatre of war, the Turks have strong reinforcements coming up.