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Show TURKS ILL-TREAT THE CHRISTIANS Paris, Nov. 16. The Matin's war correspondent, who returned from the Turkish headquarters at Hademkeul yesterday, telegraphs that up to Friday Fri-day morning no serious fighting had occurred In the region south of Tcha-talja. Tcha-talja. Thursday's engagements he sayB, wero merely brushes between outposts The cotT6spondont of the sarao pa per beforo Adrlanoplu says observations observa-tions taken by tho aviators during trips across the city show that the military and civil authorities and the inhabitants aro completely demoralized. demoraliz-ed. Food Is scarce and tho Turks aro boglnuing to ill, treat tho Christians whom they reproach as being usoloss mouths to feed Several thousand non-combatants were ordered to leave the city but tho Bulgarian outposts refused to lot them pass and sont them back London, Nov. 1&. A dispatch to the Times from its Salonlki correspondent correspond-ent describing the breaking up of Turkey says. "Tho Turk has shot his last bolt In Macedonia. Except for his personal charm, ho has fed qualities loft him. Including that of a born warrior But now ho Is shorn oven of his martial glory by tho despised Servians aud Greeks. "I have scon many memorablo sights In Macedonia, but none so heartrending heartrend-ing as the Turkish retreat after tho battle of Yenldje and the tragic scenes of tho fllghL Mingled with the fugitives fugi-tives was a stream of weary, dejected 1 soldiers, who, having fled from the battlefields, succeeded in reaching Salonlki Sa-lonlki and now wero being drlvon back to the fighting lino." |