Ships Ready For Foreigners.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 9, 1912:
Outbreaks Expected After Turks Leave and Before Bulgars Arrive.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 9.— Detachments of the defeated Turkish troops are already pouring into Constantinople and camping in the streets of Stamboul.
    Disease has broken out among them, and it has the appearance of cholera, but the doctors have not yet definitely established its character.
    More warships have arrived at Constantinople, but the fears of an anti-Christian outbreak still run high.
    A message to The Daily News, sent by wireless from the steamer Principesa Maria, off Constantinople, to Constanza, and thence cabled to London, says;
    "The chief anxiety that now prevails in Constantinople concerns the interregnum which would elapse between the transfer of the Government to Brussa and the entry of the Bulgarians into Constantinople, for nobody any longer supposes that they will make peace anywhere else. It is chiefly for this emergency that most careful preparations have been made to protect the Europeans during the interregnum.
    "So far as I can gather, transport to the steamers hired for their conveyance will be effected under cover of strong landing parties from the warships and boats with Maxims. Many of the warships' boats will probably have to be used also for transport, as once before, for the Government will probably commandeer all boats for the removal of Ottomans and their property to Asia.
    "It will be seen that the anxiety, though greatly lessened since the arrival of the warships, is in no wise ended, for it is felt by those who have been here longest that the real crisis is yet to come.
    "Nobody believes that a Government which failed to feed its own troops fifty miles from the capital will succeed in carrying out the plans for the protection of the city. It is not the want of good-will, but the absolute incompetence and laziness of the majority of the officials and the stupidity of the rest, which is the keynote of the end of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.
    "Foreign residents with long experience here now say that the two chief dangers are lawlessness and looting when the Turks evaluate the city, and the possibility of the burning of Stamboul by incendiaries or by the Turks themselves.
    "In the meantime the authorities have taken their first intelligent step by refusing permission to any further refugees to enter the city. Already it is virtually impossible to feed them, and the Red Crescent expects to have 40,000 more wounded before the end.
    "It is often impossible to obtain bread until late in the evening, all supplies being commandeered, and private houses being simply occupied by the Government for the wounded.
    "In the midst of all this hopeless and helpless confusion comes the dread whisper of disease — typhoid, cholera, and enteric fever. Typhoid and skin diseases are always more or less prevalent here, but Consul General Eyres, who has made most exhaustive inquiries, aided by experts of the British hospital, informed me last night that he had absolutely no ground for thinking that there was any fear of cholera at present."