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

= ieSsness In the earlier part of the wa
~ heeplhg with all other signs of TUT
klsh Generalization and v~roDgheadef
- ness which might easily lead the BuI
sarlans to think that Adrianople woul,
not resist a brilliant onslaught
. Mustapha Pasha became the head
: quarters Of the second Bulgarian army
; under General %Ivanof, who was IL
: nave the thankIess task of the opera,
uons around ~Adrianople, while S
eroTy was to be the fortune of Deme.
trien' who commanded the first armv
Until the first army had to take DO
SitIons In front without any opportu.
nlty Tor thanking, which was the ma
ture OF lvanoff's task from the start.
lVanoff Wakes Up.
IL was Papastepe and Kartaltepe
whicn awakened Ivanhof from his
uream OF a final brilliant stroke in
keeping with the earlier ones of the
war, Just as Tchatalja brought Deme.
trlen down from the clouds of oyer.
confidence. Papastepe is one of many
niiis IN the narrowing rib of the 203
meter Hill OF the siege. With guns In
position there, Adrianople would he
unoer bombardment. The Bulgarians
LOOK II by sending in the usual cloud
y ihIantr and losing about a thous.
ana men. But the Turks took II hack
again. Four times, | am told. II chang.
60 hands In the course Of those night
actlons which we observed only by the
Drliiiant flashes in the sky above the
Far up the valley in the mist was
hartaltepe. that other important hill
winch commanded the river bottom
VI tne Arda. We took Kartaltepe In
and a month afterward. In
one OF their splendid sorties. the
lurks, SO far as I could learn, had
taken 1t back; but 1t was as untenable ,
lor them as Papastepe was for the j.,
.oulgarians. Possibly because II was ,
again ours and very evidently ours =
permanently, the Bulgarian censors =
Lao round 1t worth while to confound .
'heptlclsm and persistent u~nfriendlv -
uinors Dy allowing the correspondents "
o enter the promised land of their =
where for weeks, between the ~
al.erles on the hills and the infantry -
l the muddy river bottom Of the Arda -
Ell mad ragged in the winter rains. q
we dld not know then, as we were ~
, know a few days later, that beyond
'artaltepe in the direction of Dele
a'cn was another force isolated from
lie %Adrianople garrison and the main N
rKlsn army, that of Taver Pasha
I'm 10000 men. caught in the literal
200 or that 10O-yard dash of The pc
aay' informed, prepared aggressor tul
'ainst the unready enemy taken un- cor
ware and fastening re-enforcements ing
inc scattered garrisons and trying Inn
adjust itself for the blow to fall ha'
IN the crash of a pile driver releas act
from its clutch. a
Dlscloses War Secret. bill
Taver Pasha's 10000 were st,n con
lorce In being, with guns and fuIl ma
llpment-a force in a box: a force nov
desperation. abl
20 you see the Adrianople garrison uar,
nlch was in touch by wireless with viii
turkish main army striking ont will
connect up with Taver Pasha? ID IL 4
see Taver Pasha trying out lines be
least resistance in a savape ofor. #
reach Adrianople or the main Tur. that
army? loon
omething to stir the blood, this. in whic
way or a war drama, while not a The
ne foreign correspondent or al. act
lie Knew even Of the existence Of floor
er Pasha's command until its SIR. TO ],
Ter. 49,.
news OF this was conveyed with loan,
onlclal assurance that now M 9TH clars
~ mSH ~ except that OF Adri- count
'le remained in Thrace, when we ia 90
oeen under the impression for tion
a month that 1t was the only one, sand.
censors did not smile as tbev
the bulletin, but some NJ tho n
'spondents smiled-at themselves
; AFTER the first rainbow hope OF Cova,
ccessful general attack was over
loH was fully occupied in holdinc
lnople safely in siege. That bat. ''
or old krupps, which fired over y y! !"
advanced Servian infantry posi-. nleS'
while a battery Of Creusots in r-eS,o
nred e 1t, added their items "~.
idence to the same end. II
sse Krupps were iakon hr a.. propos
ans at Plevna IN the war of 1877. u me
d given to the little army of the 70 de'
lation OF Bulgaria. Bulgarians re- miiltia
had dragged them through the "ashi
Y raods and over tbo ras.,Sae drilled
e~autifully emplaced them. and less wi
working them against the enemy
'oyish pride. But the world was ]
ng only of the modern Creusots
cir brilliant showing. Now S
B~ulgarians almost proved that
IN make bricks without straw jacks
won the war by the bravery Of Kinds :
oioonnuence as well as by represel
ourage. soo;ns.
anopie. which was about to Railroa,
II 1t did not fall, had, l am con. legged at
W months supplies when the that N
ce was signed. With the 10 from "
-year-old conscripts already or .Jackso,
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