The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-03

tne bulgarian IrOnIler, the lurkb leie
intact. a characteristic piece of care
lessness in the earlier part of the war
In keeping with all other signs OF Tur.
kish Generalization and wrongheaded-
ness, which might easily lead the Bull
garians to think that Adrlanople would
not resist brilliant onslaught
Mustapha Pasha became the head
quarters of the second Bulgarian army.
under General Ivanoff, who was to
have the thankless task of the opera
tons around Adrianople, while easy
glory was to be the fortune of Deme-
trietf, who commanded the first army
until the first army had to take po-
sitions in front without any opportu-
nifty for fianking. which was the ma
ture of Ivanoff's task from the start.
IVanoff Wakes Up.
1t was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
which awakened Ivahhoff from his
dream of a final brilliant stroke In
keeping with the earlier ones of the
war, just as Tchatalia brought Deme-
trieff down from the clouds of over
confidence. Papastepe is one of many
hills in the narrowing rib Of the 2O3
Meter Hill of the siege. With guns in
position there, Adrianople would be
under bombardment. The Bulgarians
took 1t by sending in the usual cloud
Of infantry and losing about a thous-
and men. But the Turks took it back
again Four times. am told, 1t chang
ed 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
November and a month afterward, In
one of their splendid sorties, the
Turks. so far as l could learn, had
taken 1t back; but it was as untenable
for them as Papastepe was for the
Bulgarians. Possibly because 1t was
again ours and very evidently ours
permanently, the Bulgarian censors
had found it worth While to confound
skepticism and persistent unfriendly
rumors by allowing the correspondents
! to enter the promised land of their
dreams. where for weeks, between the
batteries on the hills and the infantry
in the muddy river bottom 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 100yard dash Of the
ready, informed, prepared aggressor
against the unready enemy taken I'M
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.
DlscIoses War Secret.
But Taver Pasna's 10000 were still
force in being, with guns and full
equipments 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? Dc
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, this, II
the way of a war drama, while not {
single foreign correspondent or at
tache knew even of the existence o
Taver Pasha's command until it's sur
render.
The news of this was conveyed will
the official assurance that now no 9th
err Turkish force except that of Adri
anople remained in Thrace, when WI
had been under the impression TO
over a month that it was the only one
The censors did not smile as the.
posted the bulletin, but some of tn,
correspondents smiled-at themselves
No, after the first rainbow hope o
a successful general attack was over
Ivanhoff was fully occupied in holding
!. Adrianople safely in siege. That bal
. terry of old Krupps. which fired owe
the advanced Servian infantry pos
/ ton, while a battery of Creusots Il
turn fired over it, added their item
: of evidence to the same end.
! These Krupps were taken by tn
: Russians at Plevna in the war of 1877
rs and given to the little army of tn
: new nation of Bulgaria. Bulgarians r.
cruits had dragged them through tn
muddy raods and over the pasture