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Updated: May 7, 2025
The Turks were utterly routed and fled in confusion towards Constantinople by Tchorlu. Had an enterprising pursuit on the part of the Bulgarians been possible, the Bulgarian army undoubtedly would have then entered Constantinople and the Christmas Mass would have been said at St. Sophia.
Coming towards the front from Tchorlu, the fall of night and the weariness of my horses had compelled me to halt at the village, and this officer and Dr. Neytchef gave me a warm welcome to their little Mess. There are six members, and for all, to sleep and to eat, one room. Three are officers, three have no commissions. With this nation in arms that is not an objection to a common table.
A military train was available part of the way if I were content to drop interpreter, horse, and baggage and travel with a soldier's load. That decision was easy enough at the moment though I sometimes regretted it afterwards when the only pair of riding-breeches I had with me gave out at the knees, and I had to walk the earth ragged and by train I got to Tchorlu.
The following morning the climax of vexation is reached when, after wading through the mud for two hours, I discover that I have been dragging, carrying, and trundling my laborious way along in the wrong direction for Tchorlu, which is not over thirty-five kilometres from my starting-point, but it takes me till four o'clock to reach there.
Between Silivri and Ermenikioi, travelling with a fine equipment for the time being a cart and two good horses and a full supply of food, purchased at Tchorlu and Silivri I was eating lunch by the roadside when four Bulgarian soldiers came up and with signs told me that they were starving, and asked for food.
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