Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-01-08

under General Ivanofr. Sho vas TO
have the thankless task of the opera
tons around AdrianOple While easy
glory was to be the fortune Of Deine-
trieff. who commanded the first army
until the FIRST army had 10 take pO-
sitioHs in front without any opportu-
nifty for fianking. which was the ma
ture OF Ivanoffs task from The start.
lvanoff Wakes Up.
It was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
which wakeued Ivanoff from his dream
OF anal brilliant stroke in keeping
with the earlier ones of the war, just
as Tchatalia brought Demetrieff down
from the clouds of overconfidenca.
Papastepe is one of many hills in the
narrowing rib of the 20s Meter Hnl
OF the siege. With guns in position
there. Adrianople would be under
bombardment The Bulgarians tool.
it by sending in the usual cloud of in
fantry and losing about a thousand
men. But the Turks took it back
aga.l. Four times. l am told. It
changed hands in the course of those
night actions which we observed only
by the brilliant flashes in the sky
above the hills.
Far up the valley in the mist was
Kartaltepe, that other important hill
which commanded the river bottom OF
the Arda. We took Kartaltepe in No
vember and month afterward, in one
of their splendid sorties. the Turks,
so far as l could learn. had taken it
back; but ii was as untenable for
them as Papastepe was for the Bal
garians. Possibly because it was again
ours and very evidently ours perma-
nently, the Bulgarian censors had
found it worth while TO confound
skepticism and persistent unfriendly
rumors by allowing the correspon-
dents TO enter the promised land of
their dreams. where for weeks. be-
tween the batteries On the hills and
the fsntry in the muddy river bot
tom o u ida, hell had ragged In the
winter rains
W, did not know then, as we were
to know a few days later, that beyond
Kartaltepe in the direction of Dele.
catch vas another force isolated from
the Adrianople garrison and the main
Turkish army, that of Taver Pasha
with 10000 men. caught in the literal
food of that 100yard dash OF the
ready, informed. prepared aggressor
against the unready enemy taken un.
| aware and Fastening re-enforcements
to the scattered garrisons and trying
to adjust itself for the blow to fall
with the crash of pile driver releas.
ed from it's clutch
DiseIoses War Secret.
But Taver Pashas 10000 were still
force in being. with guns and full
equipment--a force in box; a force
in desperation.
Do you see the Adrianople garrison
| (which was in touch by wireless with
the Turkish main army striking out
to connect up with Taver Pasha? Do
you see Taver Pasha trying out lines
of least resistance in savage effort
to reach Adrianople or the main Tur
kish army?
Something to stir the blood, this. in
the way of war drama, while not a
single foreign correspondent or at
tache knew even of the existence OF
Taver Pasha's command until its sur
render
The news of this was conveyed with
the official assurance that now no 9th
err Turkish force except that of Adri
anople remained in Thrace, when we
had been under the impression for
over month that It was the only
one, The censors did not smile as
they posted the bulletin, but some oil
the correspondents smiled-at them
selves.
No after the first rainbow hope of Q
successful general attack was over
Ivanoff was fully occupied in holding
Adrianople safely in siege. That bat
terry of ola Krupps, which fired over
the advanced Servian infantry posi-
ton while a battery OF Crcusots in
turn fred over it. added their items Of
evidence to the same end.
These Krupps we're taken by the
Russians at Plevna in the war of 1877
| rs and given to the little army of the
new nation of Bulgaria. Bulgarian re
cruits had dragged them through the
muddy roads and over the pastures
and beautifully emplaced them and
we're working them against the enemy
with boyish pride. But the world was
thinking only of the modern Creusots
and their brilliant showing
The Bulgarians almost proved that
! you can make bricks without straw
| They won the war by the bravery oil
their self-confidence as yell as by
their courage.
Adrianople. which was about 10
starve IL it did not fall, had. / am con
WINGED. two months supplies when the
armistiee was signed With the Is
and 20-yearold conscripts already on
the way TO the front, with a casualty
list that is easily one-fifth OF the whole
rmy, there was no sign OF weakening
The square chin Of the stoical Bull
garian was as firmly set as ever
wonder what would happen In Europe
II IL included in its borders a nation OF
100,000.0O0 Bulgarians!
Ancient Science.