Turkey Hits At The Press.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 28, 1912:
All News About Defeats Barred — Revenge on Anti-Turkish Papers.
    LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 28.— Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, in a dispatch to The Daily Telegraph from Constantinople under date of Nov. 26, by way of Con-stanza, says that in an endeavor to stay at the front he interviewed Major Wassif, who has charge of the censorship and the care of the foreign correspondents.
    The Major said that hereafter the only correspondents who would be permitted at the front would be those who signed an agreement to stay during the entire war and agreed to send only matters favorable in the military and political sense to Turkey. He declared that the only papers even thus favored would be those which had supported Turkey, and added that the treatment to which the correspondents had been subjected was due to the fact that Turkey was not getting proper support, from the European press.
    Under the new plan, no correspondent is to be allowed to send news of a Turkish defeat, no matter how great the disaster. The correspondents of all the papers which have been opposed to Turkey in the past, or in the present war, will be kept in Constantinople or expelled from the empire.