The War Situation.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 19, 1912:
    The surrender of Monastir, with its army of 50,000 regulars, who were expected to hold out in their very advantageous post for several weeks, will serve as a counterweight to whatever check the Bulgarians may have encountered along the line of the Tchatalja forts. It may not entirely balance the effect of such a check, but it will be accepted in Turkey and in the rest of
    Europe as another proof of the extreme disorder and incapacity that have fallen upon the Turkish military administration, and as evidence that peace on the side of Turkey is fast becoming a necessity. It will relieve the Servian forces recently engaged in the siege, or, rather, the assault of Monastir, to aid the Bulgarians at the gates of Constantinople. And it will tend to moderate the demands of Austria as to the future relations of that country and Servia.
    Meanwhile the horrors of the cholera epidemic near Tchatalja increase daily. This morning's dispatches give a clearer account of the spread of the pestilence than had yet been received. The details are such as to shock the whole civilized world, and indeed the condition revealed calls for more than sympathy and pity. The spread of the epidemic is inevitable, and precautions cannot be taken too quickly or made too thorough in any port of the world.