The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-01-02
ions around Adr,anople While easy

tons around Adrianople. While easy
glory was to be the fortune OF Deme'
trieR. who commanded the first army
until the first army had to take po
sitions in front without any opportu
nifty for fanking. which was the ma
ture Of Ivanoff's task from the start.
ivanoH Wakes Up.
II was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
which Weakened Ivanoff from his dream
OF n final brilliant stroke in keeping
with the earlier ones OF the war, just
as Tchatalia brought Demetrieff down
from the clouds OF oyerconfidence.
Papastepe is one OF many hills In the
narrowing rib OF the 203 Meter Hill
OF the siege. With guns In position
there, Adrianopis would be under
bombardment The Bulgarians took
It by sending in the usual cloud Of In
fantry and losing about thousand
men. But the Turks took It back
again, Four times. | am told, 1t
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.
90 I
back; but II was as untenable for
them as Papastepe was for the Bull
garians. Possibly because 1t was again
ours and very evidently ours perma.
nently, the Bulgarian censors had
found 1t 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 tho batteries on the hills and
the infantry in tho muddy river bot
tom OF the Arda, hell had ragged In the
winter rains.
We did not know then. as we we're
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 Tayer PashR
with 10000 men caught in the literal
food OF that l00.yard dash Of the
ready. Informed prepared aggreBsor
against the unready enemy taken un.
aware and hastening re-entorccments
to the scattered garrIsons and trying
TO adjust itself for the blow TO fall
with the crash OF pile driver rel eas-
ed from its clutch
DIscIoses War Secret,
But Tayor Pasha's 10000 were still
a force In being, with guns and full
cquipment-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 Tayer Pasha2 DO
you see Tayer Pasha trying out lines
OF least resistance In n 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
Tayer pasha's command until It's sur
render
The news OF this was conveyed with
tho official assurance that now no 9th.
er 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 ccnsors did not smile as
they posted the bulletin, hut some Of
the correspondents smiled-at them
selves.
No after the first rainbow hope of a
successful general attack was over
Ivanoff was fully occupied in holding
Adrianoplc safely in siege. That bat
terry of old Krupps, which fred over
tho advanced Servlan infantry posi-.
/ ton, while battery OF Crcusota In
turn fired over It added their items Of
! evidence to the same end
These Krupps were 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 th-
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 Bulgarlans almost proved that
you can make bricks without straw
They won the war by the bravery OF
their self-conhdence as we'll as BY
their courage
Adrianople, which was about &c
starve II It did not fall had. am con
vinced. two months supplies when tho
nrmlstice was signed. With the Is
and 2O-yearold eonscripts already or
the way to the front. with a casualt,
list that Is easily oEe.flfth OF the Who'll,
army, there was no sign Of weakening
The square chin OF the stocal Bul
garian was as firmly set as ever
wonder what would happen In Europ,
II 1t included In its borders a nation O
100, 100000 Bulgarans,