ABSTRACT
The first hint of anything to the contrary came from a Neue Freie Presse, obtained at a Croatian railway-station, which announced that by the 19th a Macedonian army would concentrate at Chatalja, some twenty-five miles from Constantinople. But Constantinople proved a most singularly beleaguered city. Every foreign correspondent in Constantinople thereupon telegraphed to his paper that the Salonica troops would make a peaceful entry into the city and that Abd ul Hamid would remain on the throne. The rumour was presently confirmed by an extra of the Osmaniscber Lloyd, an enterprising Franco-German paper, which was the first in Constantinople to publish the news of Abd ul Hamid’s dethronement and the accession of his brother. A photograph of the German imperial family looked out of a gold frame set in brilliants. All of them were friendly, curious as to a train so much more comfortable than their own, and good-humouredly willing to be photographed.
