The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-01-04

/ some generations, 10 DreeQ tne utleu-
sive instinct in any soldier.
The Turk must have his back
against the wall in order to fight well.
His attitude is that Of the mad bull
against the toreador; and very mad
bull, We know, sometimes gets horn
into the toreadors anatomy and toss
es him over the palilgs. This hap
pened In way at Adranople.
victory Is to the heaviest bat
talions," Bonaparte said this. but aft
er Caesar said it after some general
OF Egypt, Babylon or Nineveh.
The allies knew that their success
depende. on speed in a fall campaign
speed and the shock of masses pour
ing over the frontier. Theirs was a
neutrality-suspicious. chance.
The Serbs at Kumanova. their crit
ical battle, had odds Of at least four to
one.
The Greeks never had less favor
able odds, usually much higher.
AS for the Montenegrins. who had
a small show. what they die in one
way or another did not matter. They
had work to keep them fully occu-
pied. as 1t developed in the siege of
Scutari.
The only one of the allies who dis
Gained modern organization, their fail
ure to make any Roadway again en-
phasizes the wide difference between
body of men with rifles and an &C.
tual army.
Bulsars Bear Wars Brunt.
So the Bulgarians took the great
and telling work of the war on their
shoulders. You have only to know
the Bulgarians to understand that this
was inevitable.
There is stubborn and aggressive
character enough in Bulgaria to spare
for all southwestern Europe.
Bulgaria made hundred-yard dash
with OK cart transportation, and made
1t around an Observation-Disclosures
The main railroad line and the great
Constantinople highway ran by Adri-
anople. 1t was on the direct line of
communication from the center of the
Bulgarian base to the center of its
objective
In the center Of Thrace, it was the
only real fortress on the way to Con-
stantinople. Kirk-Killisseh, or Losen-
grade, as the Bulgarians call It, de-
spite their willingness to allow an i'm
preston of its formidalility to be
spread abroad, was not in any sense
well fortified.
Now. the first thing was to surround
Adrianople; that is, to strike at it
from all sides. as the key to the po-
sition. A branch of the main Sofia |
Constantinople railroad line runs to
Yamboli With this as its base, Deme- |
trieff's, or the First. army swung
around Kilisseh, which was TAX
en- In the first splendid ardor of the |
campaign. With its fall anyone can
see from a staff map that any battle
line of defense with Adrianople as a
part OF it was impossible for a force
Of the numbers of the Turkish main !
army.
Two or three hundred thousand
men who were homogeneous might
have held on, but not half that num-
Der when badly organized There
tore. Nazim Pasha had to fall back
to a new line and leave Adrianople
70 care for itself.
Reveals BuIsar Courage.
The next step was the decisive bat
lie on the line from Lule Burgas to
There, again, superiority of num-
,ers, as well as organization, count
ID; that superiority. which makes a
lsavy turning movement possible
While the enemy's front is engaged.
In short. the Bulgarians had the
turks going. They gave the Turks
10 rest, and they had a sufficient nu-
nerical preponderance, In addition to
he dependable courage of their in
antry to guarantee success.
So there was nothing wonderful
bout the strategy Of the campaign.
lothing new. nothing startling The
I'D principle of the swift turning
had been applied to the sit {
lation in hand.
BY the flank the Japanese kept put l
ing the Russians back from the Yalu
o Mukden. By the flank Grant put
Lee back to Richmond.
There was just one, and only one,
feature in this war-Bulgari-
IN courage. That enabled Demetrieff [
% gain at Kirk-Killisseh and Lule
Burgas in hurry what with most
armies would have required much
more time
Demetrieff had willing flesh for a
necessary sacrifice. He threw his in
'antry against frontal positions In a
cloud, into shrapnel and automatic
gun fire. without waiting to silence
he enemy's batteries.
Expected to Take AdrIanopIe.
And after Lule Burgas the next step
would have seemed the storming of
Adrianople. When peace negotiations
should begin. 1t was vital point in
heir favor in the negotiations to have
Adrianople in their possession.
The Bulgarian treatment Of the cor.
is one Of the many in /;
locations that the Bulgarian staff did {
t one time expect to take Adrianople /
y storm.
II was argued by serious CORE
pondents who did not feel that thew I
ught to waste their time or the {
money Of their papers in idleness I
hat the Bulgarian government ought 2