Excerpt from With the Turks in Thrace
This book is intended as a record of those dramatic days my brother and myself passed with the Turkish Army in Thrace during the battle of Lule Burgas and in the subsequent retreat on the lines of Chataldja. I have to acknowledge my great indebtedness to him for the assistance he has given me in writing parts of it, and also in preparing it for publication.
My thanks are also due to the Daily Telegraph for allowing me to reproduce articles which originally appeared in its columns.
Since the hist chapter was in print the revolt of the Young Turkish party against Kiamil's Government, because of its decision to surrender Adrianople to the Bulgarians - foreshadowed in the last chapter - has actually taken place, and Nazim Pasha, the late Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, has been assassinated.
Whether the Young Turks will endeavour to carry on the war only the future can show, but all the arguments set forth in the concluding chapter against such a course of action still hold good, and a revolution in Constantinople in no wise alters the strategical and financial objections to a renewal of the campaign. Turkey's European Provinces and the fortress of Adrianople are irrevocably lost, and any effort to regain them can only lead to further disasters.
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