Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-04

IN. announcement that Greek troops
haye entered Adrianople falls upon
p,hbe surfeited with the taking OF cities;
he winning of victories, with war ana
NJ, af,c,math az war. Yet IL is less than
s,sht vears since the whole civilized world
uatcbed the siege operations around TINS
san,e city with an intensity which was due
81 tho relative uniamiliarity OF the con-
Temporary world with warfare.
AnA the fortunes Of Adrianople, since
,h,t time are An illuminating epitome OF
Things Balkan In 1912, when alI ehe
palLan states sprang % war, iurnlshinS
v-hat Mas in fact the prologue TO the World
War. bulgarian troops ,overcaine .ne
advance guards of the TURKS at MIN
I,,i,ssc northeast of Adr1anople ana,
.b,le ono victorious army descended 10
Iule Bureas 20 win great victory anu
4 second raced with the Serbs and 'ireeKs
for Salonica and lost, third lhFesteu
Adranople
Within n few weeks all that was lett
of Turkey in Europe was the peninsula ,
~ Constantinople, defended at tne
famous Chatalja lines, and Adrianopie.
But for months the city resisted ana Ciie
Turks declined 10 make any peace VIZ
would entail the loss Of this, one OF their
-. saered communities Finally Serb
reinforrements and artillery came to the
All ~ the Bulgars and Adrianople WAS
taken by storm, the chief glory belonging
90 the Serbs.
Then the Conference Of London, IKE
tbat ~ Paris six wears later proceeded
70 draw lines, to construct frontiers; ;;
Adrisnople went to Bulgaria, so dld all
~ Tbrace down 10 the line from the
Rlaek 10 the Aegean seas drawn between
the towns Of Enos and Mldia. In the
same treaty. Bulgaria acquired havaia,
her frontier was the Struma ana sne
touched the Aegean at Dedeaga'ch.
But she did not receive Monastlr or
Salonica. As result, urged on py
Austria and Germany, alarmed at the
spectacle Of Balkan confederation, she
attacked Greece and Serbia.
Bv the Serbs she was defeated at tne
Rrcgalnitra, by the Greeks at kiik1s,
Rumania crossed the Danube, the l urks'
lnrcconciled 70 the loss OF Adrianopie
passed the Enos-Midia line IN the teeth
of European prohibition and regalned their
lost CITY. Peace was made again AT
bucharest and Bulgaria lost Ihrace 70
the Turk, the southern Doorudla, 10
Rumania, kavala to Greece ana al ol
Macedonia, save the Strumnltza strip
W ltfbit. -
All this was in 1913 and in 1914 the
World War arrived and in 1918 Bulg ARIA
barrained with Turkey and received as the
price Of the Martha which provided a
railway line over Bulgarian territory TO
the Aegean at Deagatch. Afterwards
She took Macedonia from Serbia nd
approached Salonica, occupying kava la
again. with the consent of the German
ophilc Constantine.
The next year Rumania rashly enter
ing the war on the allied side Bulgaria
swept up into the Dobruga and retook
both the strip lost in 1918 and that taken
from her al the Congress of Berlin. But
two wears later came the collapse, the
allied victory in the mountains east OF
Nonastir. the sweep of the Salonica
army up the Yardar valley, Bulgarian
surrender. At Paris Serbia recovered
Macedonia with the Strumnltza strip,
Rumania regained both Dobrdias.
Now the Greek enters Adrianople,
ancicntlv one Of the great cities of the