CHAPTER   III

Indignation meetings—Insult added to injury—The
" Girls' School" party—Baffled curiosity—Fresh
quarters—Another move—The campaign reviewed
—Forces engaged—Kirk-kilisse—Before Lule Bur¬
gas—An interrupted dinner-party—An end of
idleness.

The extraordinary treatment which the
Ottoman military authorities saw fit to
mete out to accredited Press corre¬
spondents, whose bona fides had been
vouched for at the Constantinople Em¬
bassies before the issue of permits, was
extremely trying to men who were just
shaking off the staleness of a long wait
in the capital and were anxious to make
some amends to their papers and
agencies for the poor quality of the copy

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