The Raymer enterprise., 1913-01-16

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 q very mad
bull. We know, sometimes gets horn
into the toreador's anatomy and toss.
es him over the palings. This hap
pened In way at Adrianople.
Victory is to the heaviest bat.
talions,' Bonaparte said this. but aft
er Caesar said 1t after some general
OF Egypt, Babylon or Nineveh.
The allies knew that their success
dependeL on speed in fall campaign
speed and the shock OF masses pour.
ing over the frontier Theirs was
hundred.yard-dash 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
small show, what they did 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
dained modern organization. their fail.
ure to make any headway again EN-.
phasizes the wide difference between
n body Of men with rifles and an ac.
tual army.
suIgars 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 obstacle-Adrianople
The main railroad line and the grea,
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. Il was the
only real fortress on the way TO Con.
stantInople. Kirk.Killisseh. or Losen.
grade. as the Buigarians call It. de.
spite their willingness to allow an i'm.
preston OF Its formIdalil,y to be
spread ABROAD. was not in any sense
well fortified.
Now. the first thing was to surround
Adrlanople; that Is, to strike at 1t
from all sides. as the key to the 20.
sition. A branch OF the main Sofia.
Constantlnople railroad line runs to
iambol!. With this as It's base, Deme-
trietf's, or the First. army swung
around KirkKillsseh. which was TAX
en- in the first splendid ardor OF the
campaign. With Its fall anyone can
see from staff map that any battle
line OF defense with Adrianople as a
part OF 1t 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 mum.
ber when badly organized. There
fore. Nazlm Pasha had TO fall back
to a new line and leave Adrianople
to care for Itself.
Reveals Bulsar Courage.
The next step was the decisive bat
tie on the line from Lule Burgas to
Bunnarh!ssar.
There. again, superiority OF num-
bers, rs well as organization, count.
cd; that superiority. which makes q
heavy turning movement possible
while the enemy's front Is engaged.
In short. the Bulgarians had the
Turks going. They gave the Turks
no rest. and they had sufficient nu.
merlcal preponderance, In addition to
the dependable courage OF their In.
fantry 20 guarantee success.
So there was nothing wonderful
about the strategy OF the campaign,
nothing new. nothing startling. The
old principle OF the swift turning
movement had been applied TO the sit
uation In hand
BY the flank the Japanese kept put.
ting the Russians back from the Yalu
to Mukden. By the flank Grant put
Lee back to Richmond
There was Just one. and only one,
startling feature in this war-Bulgari.
an courage That enabled Demetrlefs
to gain at Kirk.KillIsseh and Lule
Burgas In hurry what with most
armies would have required much
more time.
Demetrieff had willing flesh for n
necessary sacrifice, He threw his In.
fantry against frontal positions In a
cloud, into shrapnel and automatic
gun fire. without waiting to silence
the cnemy's batteries.
Expected 10 Take Adrianople.
And after Lule Burgas the next step
would have seemed the stormng OF
Adrlanople. When peace negotiations
should begin, It was vital point In
their favor In the negotiations to have
Adrianople In their possession.
The Bulgarian treatment OF the cor.
respondents Is one OF the many In.