The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-01-02

And after Lule BurgaR the next step
would have seemed the storming OF
Adrianople. 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
dications that the Bulgarian stan did
at one time expect to take Adrianople
by storm.
1t was argued by serious CORE
spondents who did not feel that they
ought to waste their time or the
money OF their papers in idleness,
that the Bulgarian government ought
not to have received any correspond
ents at all. But this was not logic to
scented public opinion. 1t could serve
q purpose, and all the college profess
ors In the land who spoke any for
eign language found their work in the
common cause, no less than GRANDPA.
Their found his in driving an OK cart
and the women In making bread.
The plan was we'll thought out. and
the regulations, which would fill a
column, left nothing that occurred to
officers or college professors out OF
consideration. No mention was to be
made OF the wounded. nor even OF the
weather. II It were bad. for bad wealth
er might tell the enemy that the roads
wNre bad.
While many an imaginary account,
because It had the similitude OF mar
rative which characterizes all con.
vincing fiction. was hailed as real
war correspondence, the Bulgarian
staff. when II came to actual reports
of actions Exclusive Of massacres),
was scrupulously exact and exasperat.
ingly late and brief
All praise by the press kept the ball
of the prestige OF victory rolling. 1t
helped to convince the powers and
the Turk that the Bulgarian army
was irresistible. The stage climax
OF the whole campaign would be the
| fall OF Adrianople. Therefore were
the correspondents moved to Musta,
pha Pasha Just as Lule Burgas was
being won; and Constantirople, being
then supposedly defended only BY n
demoralized army, which could not
make stand. every report from Mus
tapha Pasha which showed that
Adrlanople was on the point of capt..
ulation added to the stage effect o!
Bulgarian triumph.
Turks Defy the Bulgars.
As tho first Bulgarian army drew
near the Tchatalja lines. the mise en-
scene was complete; but NaziH
Pasha, making use Of the elapsed time
to fortify the Tchatalja lines, rather
than submit to the humiliating terms
offered. babe the Bulgarian hosts
! come on"
Success had turned the heads even
OF the Bulgarian staff They had be
gun to think that the old fighting quail
fly was out OF the Turk. and SO willing
was the Bulgarian infantry to under
so slaughter that 1t was only case
OF recording another charge OF flesh
against shrapnel and automatic gun
| fire, and the day was won.
Alas, an old principle Of war, deal
ing with an impossibility OF the same
order as sQuaring the circle in math'
ematics. was now to bring generalsh'p
back from the clouds to solid earth
You can take strong positions in
front only with time by sapping and
mining and all the weary operations
of siege, as the indomitable Grant
learned by the failure OF his frsh rush
at Vicksburg and the indomitabC
Nogi learned by tho failure of the first
| rush attack at Port Arthur
In n week, any army that has
spades and few OF the resources Of
material which should be part of the
storehouse at its base should make
such a position as that Of the series
OF rising hills back OF Tchatalja fully
tenable against any but siege attack
unless there was room for a flank at
tack.
Turks Turn the Tables.
And the breadth OF the position
open to infantry approach in any at
tempt at storming was only 16 miles
while from either sea side OF the mar
row strip OF peninsula the Turkish
navy could bring into play more pow
erful guns than any Demetrieff had q
- his disposal.
At the same time there is to b.
kept in view the generally accepte,
tenet that you must not send In
fantry against any we'll entrenched pc
sitlon until its batteries are silence
or II is known that they can be KEEP
under control during the infantry n
tack by we'll concentrated fire @
your own batteries.
Demetrieff used his guns for n da
in trying to develop the strength an
location OF the enemy's batteries. Bu
the Turks would not be drawn. At las
the tables we're turned.
Meanwhile Adrianople also was tel
ing. You may discuss as much as 20
, please whether the original plan {
tho Bulgarian staff was to mask TIL
, fortress or to take It by storm, tn
fact remains tina: the only result wa
10 mask It, and the lesson was thu