The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-09

6lOly WAS " US ZIG LOYIuue VI DcMc-
trieff, who commanded the first army
until the first army had to take po-
sitions in front without any opportu-
| nifty for thanking, which was the ma
ture Of 1yanoff's task from the sta.t.
Ivanoff Wakes Up.
1t was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
| which Weakened 1vanoff from his dream
of a final Brilliant stroke in keeping
| with the earlier ones of the war, just
as Tchatalia brought Demetrieff down
from the clouds of overconfidence.
Papastepe is one of many hills in the
narrowing rib of the 203 Meter Hill
of the siege. With guns in position
there, Adrianople would be under
| bombardment. The Bulgarians took
it by sending in the usual cloud of in
fantry and losing about a thousand
men. But the Turks took it back
again. 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 I could learn, had taken it
back; but it was as untenable for
them as Papastepe was for the Bull
| 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 infantry in the muddy river bot
tom of the Arda, hell had ragged in the
winter rains. ,
We did not know then, as we were
to know few days later that beyond
Kartaltepe in the direction of Dele
catch was another force isolated from
the Adrianople garrison and the main
Turkish army, that of Taver Pasha
with 10000 men, caught in the literal
| flood of that 100-yard dash of the
ready, informed, prepared aggressor
against the unready enemy taken un.
aware and fastening re-enforcements
| to the scattered garrsons and trying
to adjust itself for the blow to fall
with the crash OF a pile driver refeas--
ed from it's clutch.
! Discloses War Secret
| But Taver Pasha's 10000 were still
a force in being, with guns and full!
| equipment-a force in box; &. force
in desperation.
Do you see the Adranople 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 a savage effort
to reach Adrianople or the main 'Tur-
kish army?
Something to stir the blood, thjs, in
the way of a war drama, while not 4
single foreign correspondent OF at
tache knew even of the existence of
Taver Pasha's command until it's 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 of
the correspondents slniled-at them
selves.
No, after the first rainbow hope of
successful general attack was over.
1vanoff was fully occupied in holding
Adrianople safely in siege. That bat
terry of old Krupps, which fired over
the advanced Servian infantry posi-
ton, while a battery of Creusots in
turn fired over it, added their items Of
evidence to the same end.
These Krupps were taken w the
Russians at Plevna in the war OF 1877
IS 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.
were 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 OF
their self-confidence as well as by
their courage.
Adrianople. which was about to
starve If it did not fall, had am con-
WINGED, two months supplies when tie
armistice was signed. With the -
and 20-year-old conscr!pts already ON
the way to the front with casualty
list that is easily one-fifth of the who,e
army, there was no sign of weakening
The square chin of the stoica1 Bull
garian was as firmly set as ever. +
wonder what would happen in Europe
if it included in it's borders nation of
100,000.000 Bulgarians!