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Show uu GENERAL NOT IN TOUCH WITH ARMY London, Nov. 5. "The commander i.u i of n greal ar,u" ,n buttle without any communication with or knowledge of his forces," Is tho description de-scription of the .plight of Abdullah lasha ou October 30, tho decisive day of the fighting, which Ashmed uartlett cabled to the Daily Telegraph from Constanze. Th0 correspondent contrusts the position po-sition of the Turkish commander with inot of General Oyama during the Manchurian battles, when tho .lapan-fh .lapan-fh .praander as 20 mllea behind ine fighting line, but in constant touch " telegraph and telephone with cv-lILTw8,nent cv-lILTw8,nent nnU battery of Mb army. ADauiJan was supposed to be direct-g direct-g the movomonts of four armv corps ver a front Qt 25 miles in extent. t Ho held a position in an uld ciave-yard ciave-yard close it the front. "Abdcllah," suid the correspondent., "icmalned through tho entire day ox-cept ox-cept for one brlei Interval on a mound His sole companions were his staff and personal iscort. His sole moans of obtaining Information as to what was happening elsewhere were h!a field glasses. N'ot a line of telegraph tele-graph or telephone had been brought to tho front; not a single wireless Installation, In-stallation, although the Turkish army on paper possesses twelve complete tutfits (:r its army corps, and not an effort had been made even to establish estab-lish a line of messengers lo connoct headquarters with the various corps. Not a single aeroplane was within 100 miles of the front If any existed thero was no uno to fly them. "In the couiSQ uf tlu whole day I saw only one urderly ride up with n message, lrom which I father that the corps commander did not cveu take the trouble to communicate with the commander In ohlef. "Thus the battle, instead oT being directed by one master mind, resolv-; ed Itself Into four Isolated engagements, engage-ments, with four separate commanders, command-ers, each Ignorant of his comrades' movements, each having the same difficulty dif-ficulty In communicating with his divisions di-visions and brigades." |