No Discredit To Germans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 2, 1912:
Military Men Say Turks Were Not Ready to Follow Training.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.— Officers of high rank in the General Staff of the United States Army do not share the concern which some persons seem to entertain over the fact that the German trained Turkish Army has been so badly beaten by the French and Russian trained Bulgarian Army in the series of battles that have pushed the Turks back so far toward Constantinople. However, they manifested interest to-night in the report that Germans were showing such concern and admitted that for the lay mind the situation might invite interesting speculation as to whether the great German military machine would crumple before Russian or French advances as the army of Turkey has before King Ferdinand's forces.
    In the opinion of prominent American Army officers, as well as of most of the foreign military attachés who could be seen here to-day, however, the defeat of Turkey has been the result of military unpreparedness more than of any other single factor. There are other contributing causes, but this is the personal belief of military experts here.