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Show TURKS WILLING TO SEEK HOME IN ASIA LONDON. N'ov. 13. Telegraphing from Constantinople Tuesday by wav of Kustonje, Rumania, tin; Dally Telegraph's Tele-graph's correspondent says: . "1 am leaving for tho Tchatalja lines to watch the final stages of the drama of Turkey's graceless exit from ISurnpc after five centuries of misrule, persecution, persecu-tion, wasted opportunities and commercial commer-cial stagnation. "European Turkey. including even Runiolla, Is regarded as hopelessly lost and the little emotion of which thn Turkish character Is capable l devoted to shedding a few mild tears over the possibility of. losing even a portion of Constantinople. For the rest, life proceeds pro-ceeds aa usual. "Whatever Europe may arrange in dls-" trlbuting the spoils in European Turkey will not affect the Ottoman population who already have made their own plana for the future. This great exodus from Thrace la not the temporary move of a mass of terrified refugees lo escape the ravages of war, but a general rolurn of a people to the Innd whence they sprung. "All to whom I have spoken reply: " MVo will never return to Europe: 'we have had enough of' constant wars, massacres, disturbances, extortion and persecution. We only seek where we can dwell in peace.' "All the reports from the front show that the Turkish army is disorganized to such an extent that It Is now an open secret that members of the extreme military party havc given In and are urging peace at all costs. "The Bulgarian advance necessarily has been slow, as the line has been destroyed. de-stroyed. Tho enemy is preparing for his final move with customary care and precision, pre-cision, so that when the blow falls it will crush once for all tho feeble remnants of the Turkish army in Thrace." |