Report Bulgars Retired.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 24, 1912:
Turks Say the Enemy Have Fallen Back Several Miles.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 23.— There was no fighting along the Tchatalja lines to-day. The Bulgarians have retired to positions several miles in the rear. Their losses by cholera are reported to be severe.
    Rechad Pasha, Minister of Commerce, and Hadi Pasha, Chief of Staff, have been appointed additional plenipotentiaries to discuss the question of an armistice. The appointment of Osman Nizami Pasha, the Ambassador to Germany, as a plenipotentiary, has been confirmed. He will reach here Monday.
    The Government asserts that the Turkish plenipotentiaries are empowered to act only in event of the allies modifying their terms. The Bulgarian representatives are expected to arrive at Tchatalja to-morrow.
    The Government reports a great decrease in the number of deaths from cholera the past few days, but this is not widely credited among foreign residents of the capital.
    Some attempt is being made at last to house the soldiers suffering from the disease. Wooden huts are being erected at the San Stefano cholera camp on the open plain, which a few days ago was strewn with groups of dead and dying.
    Most of the bodies of the victims have been carted away. The new camp, however, is swarming with dead, dying, and suspects.
    A train load of stricken soldiers, numbering 1,000 to 2,000, arrived at the camp to-day and the belief is expressed that such train loads are brought there daily. It is reported that many of the troops die in the trenches along the Tchatalja lines.
    Little use is being made of the foreign members of the Red Crescent Society. They are politely received by the authorities but are not given any duty to perform. Some of the foreign doctors have improvised hospitals and themselves go out and bring in the wounded men from the front. Besides the Mohammedan prejudice against foreigners the Turkish authorities are anxious to hide from them as far as possible the existing disorganization in the Turkish service and the indifference of those in power to the existence of horrors, caused in the army by disease and lack of provisions.