Thinks Turks Will Win.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 5, 1912:
Gen. Von der Goltz Confident in Victory of His Old Pupils.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Oct. 4.— Germany's greatest military authorities expect Turkey to be more than able to hold her own in the war with Bulgaria, Servia, Greece, and Montenegro. Their views are set forth in a published interview with "an eminent General, who for a long time was chief instructor of the Ottoman Army." This can be none other than Baron Gen. von der Goltz, the celebrated strategist, who for his services in reorganizing the Turkish military forces received the title of Pasha from ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid. The General says:
    "The Turks' enemies will witness a wonder before they are finished with this fight. The empire is in every respect strong enough to accept the challenge which has been offered to it, without foreign assistance of any kind.
    ''It is obvious, however, that Turkey should without delay conclude peace with Italy in order to concentrate all her strength in dealing with the enemies now facing her in the Balkans. If the Turks do this, they can take the field half a million strong, with every prospect of winning the war.
    "The well-drilled sharpshooters who constitute that section of the Turkish Army garrisoned in the mountain regions are masters of the art of guerrilla warfare, and will be able to keep the Servians and Montenegrins so busy that practically the entire strength of the Turkish Army can be employed against the Bulgarians.
    "The latter, of course, are the force with which the Turks will have mainly to reckon. They are excellently drilled and armed and will give a first-class account of themselves, but they will prove no match eventually for the superior Turkish force which can be pitted against them.
    "Turkey will also be enabled to make good use of the ironclads, which she has been sagacious enough not to sacrifice in the war with Italy, and will employ them to blockade the entire Bulgarian coast.
    "Roumania holds one of the valuable keys to the military situation. She possesses the best army in the Balkans. She is much more friendly to Turkey than to Bulgaria; and, if she stations several army corps on Bulgaria's northern frontier, the latter will be compelled to divert a large portion of her army to that region, so that her offensive powers against the Turks will be most seriously crippled.
    "All these calculations, of course, leave out of consideration the possibility that Italy, in the event of peace not being concluded, will throw an army into Greece to back up the military movements of Turkey's four other enemies.
    "I have firm confidence, however, that, whatever happens, my ex-pupils will take most excellent care of themselves."