The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-01-03

lions around Adrianople. While easy
glory was to be the fortune of Deme-
trieff. who commanded the first army
until the first army had to axe pc
sitions In front without any opportu'
nifty for thanking, which was the ma
ture of Ivanor's task from the start.
Ivanoff Wakes UP.
1t was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
which Weakened Ivanoff from his dream
of a final brilliant stroke In keeping
with the earlier n of the war. just
as Tchatalia brought Demetrief down
from the clouds of overconhdence
Papastepe is one Of many hills In the
narrowing rib of the 203 Meter Hill
of the siege. With guns In position
there, A%drianople would be under
bombardment. The Bulgarians o
1t by sending in the usual cloud OF IN.
fantry and losing about a thousand
men. But the Turks took 1t BACK
again. Four times. l am told, II
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 wal
K~artaltepe, that other important hill
which commanded the river bottom OF
the Arda. We took Kartaltepe in NO
vember and a month afterward, IN
Of their splendid s~orties, the TURKS
SO far as I could learn, had taken II
back; but 1t was as u~ntenable TOT
them as Papastepe was for the Bull
garians. Possibly because 1t was again
ours and very evidently ours perma.
nently, the Bulgarian censors hao
found It worth while to confouno
skepticism and persistent u~nfriendiy
rumors by allowing the eorrespon.
dents to enter the promised land OF
their dreams, where for weeks. be-
tween the batteries on the hills ana
the infantry In the muddy river DOT
tom Of the Arda, hell had ragged IN the
winter rains.
We did not know then, as we were
to know a 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 fasha
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 garrisons and trying
to adjust itself for the blow to raj
with the crash of a pile driver releas
ed from its clutch.
!, DIscIoses War Secret.
, But Taver Pasha's 10000 were still
r a force in being, with guns inc ful
, eouipment-a force in a box; a forct
; in desperation.
Do you see the Adrianople garrison
, (Which was in touch by wireless witt
the Turkish main army striking on
to connect up with Taver Pasha! D'
p you see Taver Pasha trying out line
Of least resistance in a savage efor
q to reach Adrianople or the main Tur
b kish army?
n Something to stir the blood, this, II
the way of q war drama, while not
|. single foreign correspondent or al
e tache knew even of the existence @
I. Taver Pasha's command until it's SUI
D render.
4. The news of this was conveyed wit
n the official assurance that now no OIL
d err Turkish force except that of Adr
is anople remained in Thrace, when W
had been under the impression fo
h over a month that it was the onl
le one. The censors did not smile
st they posted the bulletin, but some
the correspondents smiled-at Their
IS selves.
No. after the first rainbow hope Of
ne successful general attack was owe
ze Ivanoff was fully occupied in holdir
A%drianople safely in siege. That ba
ly terry of old Krupps. which fired ov
*, the advanced Servian infantry POI
at ton, while a battery Of Creusots
turn fred over it, added their items
evidence to the same end.
on These Krupps we're taken by Il
at Russians at Plevna in the war of 1Si
as, rs and given to the little army Of t
ar new nation of Bulgaria. Bulgarian
sh cruits had dragged them through t
W. muddy roads and over the pastur
at and beautifully emplaced them. a
were working them against the ener
be with boyish pride. But the world W
ed thinking only of the modern Creust
In and their brilliant showing.
po- The Bulgarians almost proved Il
Led you can make bricks without stra
opt They won the war by the bravery
at their self-confidence as well as
or their courage.
Adrianople, which was about
starve If it did not fall, had, am c
WINGED, two months supplies when
sui armistice was signed. With the
ast and ~20-year-old conscripts already
the way to the front, with a casua
ell list that Is easily one-ffth of the VIII
you army, there was no sign of weakeni
or The square chin of the stoical !
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