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Show REPORTER FIRED ON BY THE TURKS London, Nov. 25. Ashmead Bart-lett, Bart-lett, correspondent of the Daliy Telegraph, Tele-graph, In n dispatch sent by way of Constanza, says that while returning from the front he was fired on by Turkish troops, whoso comrades explained ex-plained to him that It was not through accident but due to orders they had received to shoot any foreigner found Rithln tho lines. By bribing the pickets. Mr. Bartlett gays, he was taken before the commanding com-manding officer, who provided another an-other officer to escort him to Con-stantinople. Con-stantinople. He declares that If any correspondent disappears, these orders or-ders will account for his fate, and It will be easy for the Turks to explain that tho victim was shot In action. The life of the correspondents at the front is made intolerable. There are no rules or regulations and no censor and they are subjected to a series of persecutions to which many Einy escape through luck. But all aro lahle to suffer. Carrying Car-rying all the necessary permits makes no difference. Tho correspondent says the Turkish Turk-ish government has given Nazlm Pasha Pa-sha the power to meet the Bulgarian delegates at any time lie sees fit to discuss the terms of peace, but he seems to be marking time pending the receipt of fresh proposals less unreasonable than the Jtrstf. |