Refugees and Retaliation in Turkey

Misery in Constantinople.

Refugees Continue to Arrive – Reports of Massacres Corroborated.

Special Cable to the New York Times.

London, Tuesday, Nov 12. – The Daily Telegraph’s Constantinople correspondent wires via Constanza:

   “Constantinople presents a very mournful aspect.

   “Mussulmen families from the country, worn out with hunger and fatigue, continue to flock into town.

   “All the hospitals are filed with the wounded to such an extent that it is impossible to give them all the proper attention, and in certain hospitals gangrene has begun to make its appearance. Pitiful cases are related of soldiers dying, not from wounds, by from starvation.

   “To crown all these calamities, the authorities now admit an outbreak of cholera.

   “Constantinople, however, remains perfectly calm, and no single case of aggression is reported. At the same time there appears to be no doubt that in the immediate environs, or example at Silivri, on the Sea of Marmora, a few miles from Tchatalja, massacres have taken place, and details given to the Silivri affair contain a fact which is perhaps presented for the first time in Turkish history, namely, that the massacres were not political, but religious, as it is announced that Greeks, Armenians, and Jews were killed indiscriminately.”