Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-01-10

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II was a case Of Heads I win. ia
don't lose"
Turks Awake to Crisis.
The Turks knew this, too. It ".
an ola situation to them. SUGGEST
a meant no ACKNOWLEDGEMENT on
nat no more territory would be take
from them. This is enough, aft,
some generations, to breed the defe.
siVe instinct in any soldier.
The Turk must have his bac
against the wall in order to fight wei
lib attitude is that Of the mad bu
against the toreador; and a very ma
JUL we know. sometimes gets a hor
'hoo the toreador's anatomy and toss
es MIN over the palings. This har
pehed TO the Greeks at Jania. II al
30 happened in a way at Adrianople
Victory is to the heaviest battaJ
Ion'' bohaparte said this, but aftel
caesar said 1t, and Caesar said it aft
ct some generala OF Egypt. Babylon
or Nlneveh.
The allies knew that their SUCCESS
depended on speed in a fall campaign
speed and the shock OF masses pour.
ing over the frontier. Theirs was a
hundred-yard-dash chance.
Inc Serbs at Kumanova, their crit.
'cal battle, had odds OF at least four
to one.
me Greeks never had less favorable
'ooS, usually much higher.
AS for the Montenegrins who had
| small show, what they did in one
way or another did not matter. They
work to keep them fully occu.
'ied, as 1t developed In the siege OF
Il only one of the allies who dis
AIMED modern organization their fail.
70 10 make any Roadway again en-
hasizes the wide difference between
pody OF men with rifles and an &C.
army.
euIgars Bear Wars Brunt.
90 the Bulgarians took the preat
ia telling work of the war on their
'ouIders' You have only to know
Z buigarlans to understand that this
inevitable.
mere Is stubborn and aggressive
aracter enough in Bulgaria to spare
! all southwestern Europe.
bulgaria made a hundred-yard dash
I'll OK cart transportation, and made s
around an Observation-Disclosures I
e main railroad line and the great t
iStantlnople highway ran by Adri. s
ople' 1t was on the direct line NJ +
hmuhication from the center of the "
lgarlan base to the center of its OBJ.
tive. O
II 'ne center of Thrace, 1t was the o
y real fortress on the way IN Con. 4
n''hople' kirk-kilisseh, or Iosen- "
ue' Is the Bulgarians call It, de- u
@ their willingness to allow an i'm. CT
of It's f%ormidability to be I'll
ead abroad, was not in any sense q
fortified.
ow, the first thing was to surround IN
lanople; that is, to strike at II vi
n all sides, as the key to the no. m
'h' A branch Of the main Sofa. ga
stantinople railroad line runs to
doll With this Is 1t base. Deme- ir'
3, or the First, army SWING IN
nd klrk-kilisseh, which was talk. OF
II the nrst splendid ardor OF the lea
oaign' With its fall anyone can att
rom a staff map that any battla ita
or defense with Adrianople as n .he
OF 1t was impossible for a forco thl
% numbers of the Turkish main l
o or three hundred thousand ria
VINO were homogeneous might hou
neld on, but not half that num. pos
'hen badly organized. Therefore mil
Il pasha had to fall back to a aga
Inc and leave Adrianople to ARE incl
self. ~
Reveals eulsar Courage. "A
next step was the decisive hat. ope'
the line from Lule Burgas to 'em
Wh1l
re- again, superiority of mum. ~"
well as organization. count. uiin
lat superiority, which makes lnan
turning movement possible posa
the enemy's front is engaged, al
mort, Che Bulgarians had the ~ V
going, They gave the Turks Nna,
l. and they had a sufficient mn. SSa
preponderance, In addition n ~
pendable courage of their in. % AL
to guarantee success. .on''
was nothing wonderful go
strategy of the campaign W. ~,
ncin,o ~, .ha o"iu''s' Inc In try
ont hod ~ '"n' turning locati
n IN hn,a "pp'ieu 10 the the I
10 e,rL w. last t
, Russ,ars ,asi" hep' put Mes
don Nv ~" oil' III falu ing.
VI n p,.hm.. ''aht put please
was irst ann the b
, feature t. 49, "Au oniy one fortrei
rage Tbot onam -nuiga- fact r.
ut Kirk .Ku,ssan Denie'rleH to ma
hurry wb,, n,,,h nuie Dur any g;
ave reouirod Io'' armies cling a
rieF had w,rina "u'e 'iine' In inv,
v sacrifice IT,. ne0u LOT a in beir
rainst fronto, nv" MS IN" Natr
ITO shrannoI ~ III a fortres
without w.,.,aN "u'oina'lc the NJ