Laurence Oliphant 
Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army Under Omer Pasha [PDF ebook] 
A Personal Narrative

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.