The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-01-03
And after Lule Burgas the next step

Adr1anOple. Wnen peace hoeo@A"N
should begin, 1t was a vital point III
their favor in the negotiations to ave
Adrianople In their possession.
The Bulgarian treatment OF the cor
respondents Is Il of the many IN
d~ications that the Bulgarian stan ala
at one time expect to take Adrlanopi
by storm.
1t was argued by serious CORE
spondents who did not feel that the
ought to waste their time or the
money of their papers IN ldieness,
that the Bulgarian government ought
not to have received any correspond
ents at all. But this was not logic TO
| the government. The press repre-
scented public opinion. 1t could serve
a purpose, and all the college profess
ors in the land who spoke any lot
eign language found their work IN the
common cause. no less than grandla-
Their found his in driving an OK a r
and the women in making bread.
The plan was we'll thought out, and
the regulations, which would I'LL a
column, left nothing that occurred &c
officers or college professors out OF
consideration. Nc mention wal TO De
made of the wounded, nor even OF the
weather, II it we're bad, for bad wealth
er might tell the enemy that the
w>re bad.
While many an imaginary account,
because 1t had the similitude OF mar
rative which ~characterizes all con-
vincing fiction, was hailed as real
war correspondence, the Bulgarian
staff, when it came to actual reports
Of actions Exclusive Of m~assacres),
was s%crupulously exact and ~exasperat-
fngly 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 Is Lule Burgas was
being won; and Constantinople, being
then supposedly defended only by a
demoralized army, which could not
make a stand, every report from Mus
tapha Pasha which showed thai
Adrianople was on the point Of capt.
ulation added to the stage effect OF
Bulgarian triumph.
i Turks Defy the BuIgars.
AS the first Bulgarian army drew
neal the Tchatalja lines. the mise er
> scene was complete; but Nazin
Pasha, making use of the elapsed tim
4 to fortify the Tchatalja lines. rather
: than submit to the humiliating term!
offered, babe the Bulgarian hosts
come on"
, Success had turned the heads ever
of the Bulgarian staff. They had be
gun to think that the old fighting qual
ity was out of the Turk, and so willini
was the Bulgarian infantry to under
go slaughter that 1t was only a cas-
of recording another charge Of fiesl
against shrapnel and automatic gu
fire, and the day was won.
Alas, an old principle of war, dea
ing with an impossibility of the sam
order as ~squaring the circle in natl
ematics, was now to bring generalshi
back from the clouds to solid eartl
You can take strong positions !
front only with time by sapping an
mining and all the weary operation
Of a siege, as the indomitable Graz
learned by the failure of his irsh rus
at Vicksburg and the indomitabI
Nogi learned by the failure Of the fir
rush attack at Port Arthur.
In a week, any army that ht
"a spades and a few of the resources
u material which should be part Of Il
n %storehouse at it's base should NAL
81 such a position as that Of the seri'
n of rising hills back of Tchatalja full
8 tenable against any but siege attac
D unless there was DON for a flank {
q tack.
y Turks Turn the Tables.
And the breadth of the positi'
open to infantry approach in any
TX tempt at storming was only 16 mill
be while from either sea side of the n;
an row strip of peninsula the Turk
tie navy could bring into play more pc
a erful guns than any Demetrieff had
.ce his disposal.
I'm At the same time there Is to
kept in view the generally accept
nd tenet that you must not send
fantry against any well entrenched
sition until it's batteries are silenc
or it Is known that they can be kt
,oL under control during the infantry
tack by a well concentrated fire
your own batteries.
Demetrieff used his uns for a {
,.t in trying to develop the strength g
+o location Of the enemy's batteries. ]
the Turks would not be drawn. At !
,u the tables were turned.
49, Meanwhile Adrianople also was I
G ing. You may discuss as much as
please whether the original plan
, the Bulgarian staff was to mask
h fortress or to take it by storm,
rL- fact remains that the only result
mn. to mask 1t. and the lesson was I
any harrison in the rear of an ad,