The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-01-03

And after Lule Hurgas the next steI
would have seemed the storming o.
AdrlaHople. when peace negotiation
should begin Il vas o vital point In
their favor IN the negotiations 70 have
Adrlanople IN their possession.
The Bulgarian treatment Of the cor
respondents Ia one OF the many In
dicatIons that the Bulgarian staff did
al one time expect to take Adrianoplf
by storm
II was argued by serious CORE
B~Dondents who DID not feel that they
ought TO waste their time or the
money Of their papers In idlcness.
that the Bulgarian government ought
not to have received any correspond
ents at all. But this was not logic to
tho government. The press repre-
sented public opinion. It could serve
a purpose, and all the college profess
Ors In the land who spoke any for,
eign language found their work tn the
common cause, no less than GRANDPA
ther 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 hll 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 II were bad. for bad wealth
er might tell the enemy that the roads
v re bad
While many an imaginary account,
y. :" It n"u '"e Sltni'I''"S " nal
~vlnctpg ectio, yas hailed as real
var corrnunondorco the r~ulgarian
staff wben # came to actual reporta
Of actIona fcrcIpsIye ~ m~assarresD.
was scrunuloueIv exact and ~exasDerat.
iugly late snd brief
All praise by the press kent the ball
Of the rrasii1a M ctory railing II
helped 10 convince the powers and
the Turk that the bulgarian army
wag Irresistible The stage climax
Of the whole campaign would be the
fall Of AdrlaDopIe. Therefore were
,he correspondents moved to Mdsta.
pha Pagha Just as Lule Burgas was
being Won: and Constantinopla, being
then supposedly defended only BY a
demorallzed army, which could not
make a stand, every report from Mus
taphn Pasha which showed that
ta,y,n~rta a. ... - onri,
uIatlon added 10 the stage effect Of
Bulgarian triumph.
~., M, A.. n.
As the first bulgarian army drew
near the Tchatalla lines, the mise en-
scene was complete; but Nazim
Pasha, making use OF the elapsed time
to tortlty the T~chatalja lines, rather
than submit to the Illuminating terms
offered, babe the Bulgarian hosts
come on
success a turned the heads even
OF the bulgarian stan. They had be-
gun to think that the old fighting quail
tty was out OF the Turk, and 80 willing
was the Bulgarian infantry to under
go slaughter that 1t was only n case
OF recording another charge OF flesh
against shrapnel and automatic gun
hre, and the day was won. !
Alas, an old principle OF war, deal.
Ing with an lmpossibllity OF the same
order as squaring the circle In math-
ematics, was now to bring seneralship
back from the clouds to solid earth.
You can take strong positions In
front only with time by sapping md
mining and all the weary operations
OF a siege, as the indomitable Grant
learned by the failure Of his arsh rush
at ViCksburg and the indomitable
Nogi learned by the failure OF the first
rush attack at Port Arthur,
In Il week, any army that has
and a few Of the sourc OF
material which should be part Of the
s]torehouse at Its base should make
such a position as that OF the series
OF rising hills back OF TchatalIa fully
tenable against any but siege attack,
unless there was room for n flank at
tack,
Turks Turn the Tables.
And the breadth of the position
open to infantry approach In any at
at stormlng was only t6 miles
while from either sea side Of the mar.
row strip OF peninsula the Turkish
navy could bring into play more pow.
guns than any DemetrieT had at
disposal.
At the same time there ia to be
kept in view the generally accepted
tenet that you must not send in.