Excerpt from The Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army Under Omer Pasha: A Personal Narrative From the first part of the Blue Book it would appear that the Turkish government had been most remiss in neglecting to send supplies as well as reinforcements to Kars. At last, on the 28th of June, Lord Stratford writes, that it is some consolation to me to find that, even at this eleventh hour, the necessity of listening to my advice and sending off reinforcements without further delay, is recognised. Here, then, when the summer is half over, and the Russian army has already got under can vass beneath the walls of Kars, the Turkish government for the first time awakes to the danger. Then follows the reaction usual in such cases, and the Ottoman cabinet now becomes nervously anxious 'to avert those disastrous consequences which their own culpable apathy and indifference have entailed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.