Turkey Draws On Asia.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 24, 1912:
Grizzled Warriors Slouch Through Constantinople for the Front.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 24.— The Daily Mail's correspondent in Constantinople telegraphs:
    "As the days go by and the streets of Constantinople are ever filled with new drafts of rough, khaki-clad soldiers, one is struck by the continual change of type.
    "At first it was the young, stalwart, and fairly smart nizams, young men of the regular army. They went off, and for some days columns of reserves of the first class went tramping by on the way to their station, rather older and not so well together, but still with enough intelligence of expression to mark them as drafts from the neighborhood of Constantinople.
    "But now the invasion from Asia has begun. Grizzled, parchment-skinned, rough-bearded, ungainly, and heavy men from the villages of Anatolia slouch through the streets, staring in wonder at such splendors of city life as Constantinople can show and scuttling in dismay at the sight of an approaching motor."