The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-03
their favor in the negotiations to have

cations that the Bulgarian stan did
expect at one time 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 correspondents
at all. But this was not logic to the
government The press represented
public opinion. 1t could serve
purpose, and all the college professors
in the land who spoke any foreign
language found their work in the com
mon cause, no less than grandfather
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 col
umn, 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, If it were bad, for bad wealth
er might tell the enemy that the roads
were bad.
While many an imaginary account,
because 1t had the similitude of nara
tive which characterizes all convinc-
ing fiction, was hailed as real war
correspondence, the Bulgarian staff,
when 1t came to actual reports lex
elusive of massacresj, was scrnpulous-
ly exact and exasperatingly 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 cor
respondents moved to Mustapha
Pasha, just Lule Burgas was being
won; and Constantinople, being then
supposedly defended only by de-
moralized army, which could not make
a stand, every report from Mustapha
Pasha which showed that Adrianople
was on the point of capitulation added
to the stage effect of Bulgarian tri-
umph
Turks Defy the BuIgars.
near the Tchatalja lines, the mise en-
scene was complete; but Nazim Pasha,
making use of the elapsed time to for
tify the Tchatalja lines, rather than
submit to the humiliating terms Of
fered, -bade the Bulgarian hosts
come on"
Success had turned the heads even
of the Bulgarian staff. They had
begun to think that the old fighting
quality was out of the Turk, and so
willing was the Bulgarian infantry to
undergo slaughter that it was only a
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 mathe.
mates. was now to bring generalship
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 first rush
attack at Vicksburg and the indom
table Nogl learned by the failure Of
the first rush attack at Port Ar
thur.
In a week any army that has spades
and few of the resources of mate
rial which should be part of the store
house at it's base should make such {
position as that of the series of rising
hills back of Tchatalja fully tenablt
> against any but siege attack, unless
there was room for flank attack.
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 peninsula the Turkish navy coult
!. bring nto play more powerful gum
, than any Demetrieff had at his dis
O posal.
At the same time there is to be KEEP
in view the generally accepted tene
that you must not send infantr,
against any well entrenched position
until its batteries are silenced or
is known that they can be kept undo
control during the infantry attac
, by well concentrated fire of you
u own batteries.
= Demetrieff used his guns for a da
in trying to develop the strength an
location of the enemy's batteries. Blu
g the Turks would not be drawn. "A
last the tables were turned.
L Meanwhile Adrianople also was tel
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