ABSTRACT
The war correspondent had arrived from Pekin too late to go to the front. The front, however, seemed to be making its way as fast as it could to the war correspondent. The children would run toward us when they caught sight of the car, laughing and shouting. Nevertheless, we began slowly picking our way down toward an invisible village. Turned into an armed camp again at the outbreak of the Balkan War, San Stefano soon became a camp of a more dreadful kind. A few Greek and Jewish peddlers hawked small wares about. The commander of an Austrian man-of-war, hearing of the horrible state of affairs, went to see San Stefano for himself. The incidents of the Balkan War monopolised so much interest that another incident of those days in Constantinople attracted less attention. At the outbreak of the Balkan War Joachim III was seventy-eight years old. The attitude of Europe was the crowning bitterness of the war.
