The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-01-03

Mustapha Pasha.-The minarets of
Sultan Selim.
Needle-like. | have seen them rise
over the indistinct mass of Adriano-
Die from the distant hills, then as
substantial columns from the nearby
Aiils, and again SO close from the
ehellproof of an advanced infantry
eosition that l could make out the
filings on the dome OF the great
mosque itself.
The simple grace Of the minarets
dominated town, and landscape, and
siege. Weary drivers of the weary
Sxen OF the transport and still wear
Yer artillerymen. bringing up addi-
donal guns through seas OF mud, saw
them for the first time as a token of
defiance, Of work unfinished, of a
tles yet to be fought, and of lives yet
30 be lost.
~Infantrymen in the advanced
trenches saw them as the goal
against a foe which had fallen back
without n adequate rear guard sec
hon, but which had begun to fight
desperately under their shadows.
That Turkish garrison. as it with
drew into the shelter of its forts,
seemed to find something Of the spirit
Of old Sultan Selim the Magnificent,
bn- whom the mosque was named,
but with this difference: Sultan
eelim was not given to falling back
On forts and minarets. He stormed
torts; he went ahead to plant new
sninarets in the soil of Christendom.
Rouses Old Turks Spirit
From the first in this war the Turk
took the defensive; from the first he
accepted it as his part and portion of
Che campaign.
In Bulgaria. where many Turks still
live under Christian rule, we had
seen the Terrible Turk, the great
lighting man Of the past, whose soul
was supposed to be above lowly toll,
rs a newer of wood and a carrier of
water. He did odd jobs in the alb
pcnce of the Bulgarian at the front.
The lion of the past had been trained
b dog harness.
All the early victories OF the Bull
Karian army completed an impression
of a one-time lordly race demoralized
and enervated, who retained only the
tatalism Of "Kismet," in its lexocon.
The warriors cry, For Allah!" was
host forever. But at Adrianople For
Allah. For the Minarets! For the
Padisha." rose again to the dignity
which abandoned bravery always com
mands.
The sheer, impetuous fearlessness
OF the Bulgarian, we'll drilled anC
coolly manipulated, was the frs
great revelation of the campaign, AM
xhe second was how. in the hour o
hopelessness, his desperation arous
I'D the old qualities of the Turk.
Every situation, every development
en the wal reverted to Adrianople.
was the nut to crack in the first pla,
of strategy Of the campaign. It hoy
cred over the first army befor
Tchatalia as a nightmare. 1t stoo
IN the way of the prompt supplies c
bread and bullets for the first army
II delayed the signing of the armi
dee for ten days; It has beer tn
main subject Of contention befor
the London peace conference; it wa
responsible for the treatment Of tn
Initial dlNdNilto. VII saw uOiulUS {
Che war. and of the correspondence
who saw little.
War Hinges on A~drianop!e.
Even our phlegmatic little Englis
speaking censor assistant at Must
pha would lose his temper at II
very suggestion of any peace tern
with Adrianople still in Turkish DC
session.
I'VE shall have a revolution II v
don't get Adrianople," I have hea,
many officers say.
" shall not go home witho
Adrianople." the wounded soldie
returning from the front kept repe;
ing.
Such we're the instructions viii
Or. Danef, the Elihu Root of the B
hams, took with him to London. A
Hanople was craven on the minds
his countrymen. BY diplomacy
must get a fortress which was Z
bet taken by force of arms.
Glance at a map and you will
Nhat the whole success of the all
depended on bottling up the Turk
fthe peninsula, so that all the ott
Turkish forces from Scutari to AC
Anople, from Kumanova TO Hasso
bhould be cut off from communi
kdon. The Greeks, Serbs, and NJ
Aenegrins were the backs. The T
Iarians undertook to buck the line
Bulgaria did not have to consi
reserve army. European pull
lopinion and the jealousies of the p
hrs acted as efficient substitutes.
tehe Bulgarian military statesmans
understood that II Bulgaria were b.
len the powers would never per
Turkey to take an inch Of Bulgal
t0oi. 1t was a case of Heads l ,
tails l don't lose"
The Turks knew this, too. It