CHAPTER   XIV

Position On the Chatalja lines—Santa Sophia as
cholera hospital—Refugees for Asia Minor—A
Hamidist plot—Constantinople hears the guns
—A drive towards Chatalja—Roadside cholera
scenes—Two kinds of flight—A Turkish "vic¬
tory "—Foreign  bluejackets  landed.

The Bulgarians, as I have said, arrived
before the Chatalja lines on November
nth, but there was no fighting worthy
of mention until the 13th, and even
then no serious engagement, though news
reached us on the following day that
the enemy had occupied the railway
station at Chatalja. The fact, now ad¬
mitted in official quarters, that peace
pourparlers had been opened discounted
the    importance   attached  to  this  intelli-

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