Friday, July 26, 2013

300,000 Turks To Thrace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1913:
Sultan Orders His Troops to Recover Lost Territory.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VIENNA. July 25.— A dispatch from Constantinople announces that a new campaign on a vast scale is being prepared by Turkey. Reinforcements are being uninterruptedly drawn from Asia Minor in order to throw, an army of 300,000 into Thrace.
    All available transports have been requisitioned, and the Commissariat Department is making preparations for the subsidence of these large masses of troops. The soldiers are arriving in excellent spirits, large stores of provisions being daily forwarded to the front by camels and mules. The war enthusiasm of the population is growing daily.

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