Panic Scenes At Rodosto.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 6, 1912:
Town Crowded with Refugees — Turkish Women Seek Escape at Jetties.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 6.— The London Times correspondent at Rodosto, describing the scenes of panic there, says:
    "When I arrived there on Saturday I found the town in a fearful state. The narrow streets were packed with refugees of all classes. Troops were being armed and marched off hot-foot to Tchorlu. The Greek population was panic-stricken, and the Mutessarif was handing the town over to a committee to regulate its affairs during the interregnum and meet the invaders with bread and salt.
    "The news from Torgut that Shevket Pasha was falling back had absolutely unhinged the minds of the Levantine populace. The scenes at the jetties and in the streets were pitiful. Wild-eyed Turkish women of good estate were standing in the pouring rain beseeching boatmen to take them off to ships at anchorage, and peasant families were burning the wheels of their wagons to keep off the cold from their infants cradled in foetid mud foot deep.
    "The Turkish hospital staff was so overworked by duties at the front that they dropped asleep on cafe floors and at the sides of streets. Christian soldiers were begging clothes so they might be able to escape the whips of gendarmes who were driving every man in uniform back to the front.
    "I would never have believed I should live to see such scenes."