668 THE GRECO-TURKISH WAR.

Kaiser to the Sultan as instructors for his troops, had reorganised and partly trained the army in German methods, and anumber of the younger Turkish officers had served for a while in German garrisons, so that there was a leaven of German war science added to the excellent firrhting material of the Turkish army. But it could not be said that there was more than this. Edhem Pasha did not even act on the plan of campaign for Thessaly originally drawn up by Von der Goltz, a plan that if intelligently carried out would probably have given earlier and more decisive results. The sluggishness of movement in the Turkish brigades anddivisions, the very general neglect of reconnaissance work, the slackness of divisional commanders in supporting each other and combining their movements, the neglect to follow up and reap the fruits of victory, and finally the disposition to regard the mere occupation of ground, not the destructionof the enemy's fighting power,as the object of a campaign— all these werepoints that showed that theTurks werestillmerebeginners in scientific warfare. But in a campaign he wins whomakes the fewest blunders,andascompared with the Greeks the Turks had superior numbers,betterraw material, and a more intelligent general directionof the campaign. As the herald of an insurrection in the Balkan provinces the Greek army might have accomplished something,but from the momentit became clear that the Balkan races were not ready or willing to answer the Greek call to arms, the war could have only oneresult.

Before following the further progress of the campaign inThessaly it will be wellto see what was occurring in other parts of the theatre of war.

THE FLIGHT FROM LARISSA IA "SNAP-SHOT."