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HOW THE TURKS
CHECKED BULGARS
Desperate Defense of Adrianople
Saved the Capital.
UPSET PUNS OF THE ALLIES
Frederick Palmer Telle of the Furious
Fighting by the Ottoman Armies
That Balked Demetrleff
and Ivanoff.
By FREDERICK PALMER,
Staff Correspondent of the Chicago
Record-Herald In the Balkan War.
Muetapha Pasha.—The minarets of
Saltan Selim!
Needle-llke, I have seen them rise
over the indistinct mass of Adriano
ple from the distant hills, then as
substantial columns from the nearby
hills, and again so close from the
shellproof of an advanced infantry
position that I could make out the
tilings on the dome of the great
mosque itself.
The simple grace of the minarets
dominated town, and landscape, and
siege. 'Weary drivers of the weary
oxen of the transport and still wear
ier artillerymen, bringing up addi
tional guns through seaB of mud, saw
them for the first time as a token of
defiance, of work unfinished, of bat
tles yet to be fought, and of lives yet
to be lost.
Infantrymen in the advanced
trenches saw them as the goal
against a foe which had fallen back
without any adequate rear guard sec
tion, but which had begun to fight
desperately under their shadows.
That Turkish garrison, as it with
drew into the shelter of its forts,
seemed to find something of the spirit
of old Sultan Selim the Magnificent,
for whom the mosque was named,
but with this difference: Sultan
Selim was not given to falling back
on forts and minarets. He stormed
forts; he went ahead to plant new
minarets in the soil of Christendom.
Rouses Old Turks’ 8pirit
From the first in this war the Turk
took the defensive; from the first he
acepted it as his part and portion of
the campaign.
In Bulgaria, where many Turks Btlll
live under Christian rule, we had
seen the Terrible Turk, the great
fighting man of the past, whose soul
was supposed to be above lowly toil,
as a hewer of wood and a carrier of
water. He did odd Jobs in the ab
sence of the Bulgarian at the front.
The lion of the past had been trained
to dog harness.
All the early victories of the Bul
garian army completed an Impression
of a one-time lordly race demoralized
and enervated, who retained the
fatalism of “Kismet,” in its lexocon.
The warrior’s cry, “For Allah!" was
lost forever. But at Adrianople "For
Allah! For the Minarets! For the
Padlsha!" rose again to the dignity
which abandoned bravery always com
mands.
The sheer, impetuous fearlessness
of the Bulgarian, well drilled and
coolly manipulated, was the first
great revelation of the campaign, and
the second was how, in the hour of
hopelessness, his desperation arous
ed the old qualities of the Turk.
Every situation, every development
In the war reverted to Adrianople. It
was the nut to crack in the first plan
of strategy of the campaign. It hov
ered over the first army before
Tchatalja as a nightmare. It stood
In the way of the prompt supplies of
bread and bullets for the first army;
It delayed the signing of the armis
tice for ten days; it has been the
main subject of contention before
the London peace conference; it was
responsible for the treatment of the
military attaches, who saw nothing of
the war, and of the correspondents—
who saw little. <
War Hinges on Adrianople.
Even our phlegmatic little English
speaking censor assistant at Musta
pha would lose his temper at the
very suggestion of any peace terms
with Adrianople still in Turkish pos
session.
“We shall have a revolution if we
don't get Adrianople,” I have heard
many officers say.
“We shall not go home without
Adrianople.” the wounded soldierB
returning from the front kept repeat
ing.
Such were the instructions which
Dr. Daneff. the Elihu Root of the Bal
kans, took with him to London. Ad
rianople was graven on the minds of
his countrymen. By diplomacy he
must get a fortress which was not
yet taken by force of arms.
Glance at a map and you will see
that the whole success of the allies
depended on bottling up the Turk on
the peninsula, so that all the other
Turkish forces from Scutarij to Adri
anople, from Kumanova to Hassona,
should be cut off from communica
tion. The Greeks, Serbs, and Mon
tenegrins were the backs. The Bul
garians undertook to buck the line.
Bulgaria did not have to consider
a reserve army. European public
opinion and the jealousies of the pow
ers acted as efficient substitutes, for
the Bulgarian military statesmanship
understood that if Bulgaria were beat
en the powers would never permit
Turkey to take an inch of Bulgarian
soil. It was a case of "Heads I win,
tails I don't lose.”
Turks Awake to Crisis.
The Turks knew this. too. It was
an old situation to them. Successful
Simplify Life.
“I do believe In simplicity. It is as
tonishing as well as sad, how many
trivial afTalrs even the wisest man
thinks he must attend to in a day;
how singular an affair he thinks he
must omit. When the mathematician
would solve a difficult problem ho
first frees the equation of all incum
brances and reduces it to its sim
plest terms. So simplify the prob
lem of life, distinguish the necessary
and the real.—From Thoreau "Let
ters.”
war meant no aggrandizement only
that no more territory would be taken
from them. This is enough, after
some generations, to breed the defen
sive instinct in any soldier.
The Turk must have hiß back
against the wall in order to fight well.
His attitude is that of the mad bull
against the toreador; and a very mad
bull, we know, sometimes gets a horn
into the toreador’s anatomy and toss
es him over the palings. This hap
pened in away at Adrianople.
"Victory is to the heaviest bat
talions," Bonaparte said this, but aft
er Caesar said it after some general
of Egypt, Babylon or Nineveh.
The allies knew that their buccoss
dependea on speed in a fall campaign
—speed and the shock of masses pour
ing over the frontier. Theirs was a
hundred-yard-dash chance.
The Serbs at Kumanova, their crit
ical battle, had odds of at least four to
one.
The Greeks, never had less favor
able odds, usually much higher.
As for the Montenegrins, who had
a small show, what they did in one
way or another did not matter. They
had work to keep them fully occu
pied, as it developed in the siege of
Scutari.
The only one of the allies who dis
dained modern organization, their fail
ure to make any headway again em
phasizes the wide difference between
a body of men with rifles and an ac
tual army.
Bulgars Bear War’s Brunt.
So the Bulgarians took the great
and telling work of the war on their
shoulders. You have ,only to know
the Bulgarians to understand that this
was inevitable.
There is stubborn and aggressive
character enough in Bulgaria to spare
for all southwestern Europe.
Bulgaria made a hundred-yard dash
’with ox cart transportation, and made
it around an obstacle—Adrianople.
The main railroad line and the great
Constantinople highway ran by Adri
anople. It was on the direct line of
communication from the center of the
Bulgarian base to the center of its
objective.
In the center of Thrace, It was the
only real fortress on the way to Con
stantinople. Kirk-Killisseh, or Losen
grade, as the Bulgarians call it, de
spite their willingness to allow an im
pression of its formidalillty to be
spread abroad, was not in any sense
well fortified.
Now', the first thing was to surround
Adrianople; that Is, to strike at it
from all sides, as the key to the po
sition. A branch of the main Sofla-
Constantlnople railroad line runs to
Yainbolt. With this as its base, Deme
trieff’s, or the First, army swung
around Kirk-Killsseh, which was tak
en in the first splendid ardor of the
campaign. With Its fall anyone can
see from a staff map that any battle
line of defense with Adrianople as a
part of it was impossible for a force
of the numbers of the Turkish main
army.
Two or three hundred thousand
men who were homogeneous might
have held on, but not half that num
ber when badly organized. There
fore, Nazim Pasha had to fall back
to a new line and leave Adrianople
to care for itself.
Reveals Bulgar Courage.
The next step was the decisive bat
tle on the line from Lule Burgas to
Bunnarhissar.
There, again, superiority of num
bers, as well ns organization, count
ed; that superiority, which makes a
heavy turning movement possible
while the enemy's front is engaged.
In short, the Bulgarians had the
Turks going. They gave the Turks
no rest, and they had a sufficient nu
merical preponderance, in addition to
the dependable courage of their in
fantry to guarantee success.
So there was nothing wonderful
about the strategy of the campaign,
nothing new, nothing startling. The
old principle of the swift turning
movement had been applied to the sit
uation in hand.
By the flank the Japanese kept put
ting the Russians back from the Yalu
to Mukden. By the flank Grant put
Lee back to Richmond.
There was Just one. and only one.
startling feature in this war —Bulgari-
an courage. That enabled Demetrleff
to gain at Kirk-Killisseh and Lule
Burgas In a hurry what with most
armies would have required much
more time.
Demetrleff had willing flesh for a
necessary sacrifice. He threw his in
fantry against frontal positions in a
cloud, into shrapnel and automatic
gun fire, without waiting to silence
the enemy's batteries.
Expected to Take Adrianople.
And after Lule Burgas the next step
would have seemed the storming of
Adrianople. When peace negotiations
should begin, it was a vital point in
their favor in the negotiations to have
Adrianople in their possession.
The Bulgarian treatment of the cor
respondents is one of the many in
dications that the Bulgarian staff did
at one time expect to take Adrianople
by storm.
It was argued by serious corre
spondents who did not feel that they
ought to waste their time or the
money of their papers in idleness,
that the Bulgarian government ought
not to have received any correspond
ents at all. But this was not logic to
the government. The press repre
sented public opinion. It could serve
a purpose, and all the college profess
ors in the land who spoke any for
eign language found their work in the
common cause, no less than grandfa
ther found his in driving an ox cart
and the women in making bread.
The plan was well thought out. and
the regulations, which would fill a
column, left nothing that occurred to
officers or college professors out of
consideration. No mention was to be
Let Him Cultivate Patience.
The mebmers of a church in the
southwest have given their pastor an
automobile. It is hoped that no
member of his congregation may be
present the first time the crank han
dle hits Kim on the elbow*.
That Terrible Habit of Work.
Pat —"Say, Dlnny, phwat wud yez
do if yez had ull the money yez want
ed?" Dlnny—“Oi'd be after goin’ to
me wur-rk in an autymobile instead
of a trolley car."—Boston Transcript.
made of the wounded, nor even of the
weather, if it were bad, for bad weath
er might tell the enemy that the roads
were bad.
While many an imaginary account,
because it had the similitude of nar
rative which characterizes all con
vincing fiction, was hailed as real
war correspondence, the Bulgarian
staff, when it came to actual reports
of actions (exclusive of massacres),
was scrupulously exact and exasperat
lngly late and brief.
All praise by the press kept the ball
of the prestige of victory rolling. It
helped to convince the powers and
the Turk that the Bulgarian army
was irresistible. The stage climax
of the wholj campaign would be the
fall of Adrianople. Therefore were
the correspondents moved to Musta
pha Pasha just as Lule Burgas was
being won; and Constantinople, being
then supposedly defended only by a
demoralized army, which could not
make a stand, every report from*Mus
tapha Pasha which showed that
Adrianople was on the point of capit
ulation added to the stage effect of
Bulgarian triumph,
Turks Defy the Bulgars.
As the first Bulgarian army drew
near the Tchatalja lines, the mise en
scene was complete; but Nazim
Pasha, making use of the elapsed time
to fortify the Tchatalja lines, rather
than submit to the humiliating terms
offered, bade the Bulgarian hosts
"come on."
Success had turned the heads even
of the Bulgarian staff. They had be
gun to think that the old fighting qual
ity was out of the Turk, and so willing
was the Bulgarian infantry to under
go slaughter that it was only a case
of recording another charge of flesh
against shrapnel and automatic gun
fire, and the day was won.
Alas, an old principle of war, deal
ing with an impossibility of the same
order as squaring the circle in math
ematics, was now to bring generalship
back from the clouds to solid earth.
You can take strong positions in
front only with time by sapping and
mining and all the weary operations
of a siege, as the indomitable Grant
learned by the failure of his flrsh rush
General Demetrleff.
at Vicksburg and the indomitable
Xogi learned by the failure of the first
rush attack at Port Arthur.
In a week, any army that has
spades and a few of the resources of
material which should be part of the
storehouse at its base should make
such a position as that of the series
of rising hills back of Tchatalja fully
tenable against any but siege attack,
unless there was room for a flank at
tack.
Turks Turn the Tables.
And the breadth of the position
open to infantry approach in any at
tempt at storming was only 1G miles,
while from either sea side of the nar
row strip of peninsula the Turkish
navy could bring into play more pow
erful guns than any Demetrleff had at
his disposal.
At the same time there is to be
kept in view the generally accepted
tenet that you must not send in
fantry against any well entrenched po
sition until its batteries are silenced
or it is known that they can be kept
under control during the infantry at
tack by a well concentrated fire of
your own batteries.
Demetrleff used his guns for a day
in trying to develop the strength and
location of the enemy’s batteries. But
the Turks would not be drawn. At last
the tables were turned.
Meanwhile Adrianople also was tell
ing. You may discuss as much as you
please whether the original plan of
the Bulgarian staff was to mask this
fortress or to take it by storm, the
fact remains that the only result was
to mask it, and the lesson was that
any garrison in the rear of an advan
cing army, though it is held securely
in investment, remains a mighty force
in being for the enemy’s purpose.
Nature meant Adrianople to be a
fortress. Past it on the south flows
the Maritza river, taking its origin in
the Balkans and plowing its way
across the alluvial lowlands of Thrace
to the sea. A strong bridge crosses it
on the line of the Constantinople high
way at Mustapha Pasha, some twenty
five miles from Adrianople.
This bridge, which is not far from
the Bulgarian frontier, the Turks left
intact, a characteristic piece of care
lessness in the earlier part of the war
in keeping with all other signs of Tur
kish demoralization and wrongheaded
ness, which might easily lead the Bul
garians to think that Adrianople would
not resist a brilliant onslaught.
Mustapha Pasha became the head
quarters of the second Bulgarian army.
Making Bomb-Thrower Out of Host.
,f,(ir\lliy UUIM U- I 111 WTV I VM. VI liwat.
An English wit of reputation, who
has been visiting New York for the
last two weeks, remarked at the con
clusion of a little dinner given him:
“It's been excellent. I never heard
older stories nor drank newer wino
in my life.”
Tenacious Woman.
She has her hands full keeping her
temper, keeping her house, keeping
her cook, keeping her youth, keeping
her husband and other things.
under General Ivanoff, who was to
have the thankless task of the opera
tions around Adrianople. While easy
glory waß to be the fortune of Deme
trleff, who commanded the first army
—until the first army had to take po
sitions in front without any opportu
nity for flanking, which*was the na
ture of Ivanoff’B task from the start.
» Ivanoff Wakes Up.
It vaa Papastepe and Kartaltepe
which wakened Ivanoff from his dream
of a final brilliant stroke in keeping
with the earlier ones of the war. just
as Tchatalia brought Demetrleff down
from the clouds of overconfidence.
Papastepe is one of many hills in the
narrowing rib of the 203 Meter Hill
of the siege. With guns in position
there, Adrianople would be under
bombardment. The Bulgarians took
It by Bending in the usual cloud of in
fantry and losing about a thousand
men. But the Turks took it back
again. Four times. I am told, it
changed hands in the course of those
night actions which we observed only
by the brilliant flushes 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 a month afterward, in one
of their splendid sorties, the Turks,
so far as I could learn, had taken it
back; but It was r.s untenable for
them as Papastepe was for the Bul
garians. Possibly because it was again
ours and very evidently ours perma
nently, the Bulgarian censors had
found it 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 the batteries on the hills and
the infantry in the muddy river bot
tom of the Arda, hell had raged 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
gatch was another force isolated from
the Adrianople garrison and the main
Turkish army, that of Taver Pasha
with 10.000 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 hastening re-enforcements
to the scattered garrisons and trying
to adjust Itself for the blow to fall
with the crash of a pile driver releas
ed from Its clutch.
Discloses War Secret.
But Taver Pasha’s 10,000 were still
a force In being, with guns and full
equipment —a force in a 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 Tuver Pasha? I)o
you see Taver Pasha trying out lines
of least resistance in a savage effort
to reach Adrianople or the main Tur
kish army?
Something to stir the blood, this. In
the way of a war drama, while not a
single foreign correspondent or at
tache knew* even of the existence of
Taver Pasha’s command until Its sur
render. U ■■
The news of this was conveyed with
the official assurance that now no oth
er Turkish force except that of Adri
anople remained In Thrace, when we
had been under the impression for
over a month that it was the only
one! The censors did not smile as
they posted the bulletin, but 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
Adrianople safely In siege. That bat
tery of old Krupps. which fired over
the advanced Servian infantry posi
tion. while a battery of Creusots 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 1577-
78 and given to the little army of the
new nation of Bulgaria. Bulgarian re
cruits had dragged them through the
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 Bulgarians almost proved that
you can make bricks without straw.
They won the war by the bravery of
their self-confidence as well ns by
their courage.
Adrianople, which was about to
starve If It did not fall, had. I am con
vinced. two months’ supplies when the
armistice was signed. With the 1!)
and 20-year-ol<] eonscrlpts already on
the way to the front, with a casualty
list that Is easily one-fifth of the whole
army, there was no sign of weakening.
The square chin of the stoical Bul
garian was as firmly set as ever. I
wonder what would happen in Europe
if It Included in its borders a nation of
100,000,000 Bulgarians!
Ancient Science.
It is generally supposed that those
who combated the opinion that the
earth was a sphere when Columbus
proposed his groat voyage were only
giving expressions to opinions that
had always been entertained. But the
fact is that long before the Christian
era the Greek and Egyptian philoso
phers entertained the idea that the
earth was round and knew vastly
more about eclipses, the motions of
the moon and other astronomical mat
ters than many do even today. The
idea of Columbus had been anticipated
by the ancient philosophers by more
than sixteen centuries.
Seemingly Good Evidence.
"Is your sou happily married?" "Yes,
I’m afraid he is. I’ve done my best
to convince bint that she isn’t worthy
of him. but he won’t believe me."
Small Boy Again.
"Bobby, do you see that bright star
overhead, at the top of the big cross?"
"Yes.” "Well, that’s Deneb. It is
nearly three quadrillions of miles
away.’’ "Huh! Then how do you know
Its name is Deneb?"
Speak Guardedly.
Speak not at all. in any wise, till you
have somewhat to speak; care not for
the reward of your speaking, but sim
ply and with undivided mind for the
truth of your suonkimr.—Cnri.i.
HOW TO CURE RHEUMATISM
Prominent Doctor's Beat Prescrip
tion Easily Mixed at Home.
Tills simple and harmless formula
has worked wonders for all who have
tried It quickly curing chronic Hnd
acute rheumatism and backache. "From
your druKKist get one ounce of Torts
compound (In original scaled package)
and one ounco of syrup of Sarsuparllla
compound. Take these two Ingredients
home and put them In a half pint of
good whiskey. Shnke the bottle and
take a tablespoonful before each meal
and at bed-time." Good results come
after the tint few doses. If your drug
gist does not have Torls compound In
stock he will get It for you In a few
hours from his wholesale house. Don't
be Influenced to tuke a patent medi
cine Instead of this. Insist on having
the genuine Torls compound In the
original. one-ounce, sealed, yellow
package. This was published here last
winter and hundreds of the worst cases
were cured by It In a short time. Pub
lished by the Globe Pharmaceutical lab
oratories of Chicago.
MR. GOSLINGTON GOT EVEN
Collision of 111-Mannered Man and
Fire Hydrant Afforded Him Much
Satisfaction.
“You know the crowding, pushing,
111-mannered chaps," said Mr. Gosling
ton, "that elbow their way through
and crowd you off into the gutter, like
as not, and pass right on with never a
thought? I encountered one of them
this morning in Sixth avenue.
‘He overtook me, coming up from
the rear, walking faster than I. and
when he had come to me ho didn’t
sheer out. but kept right along, shoul
dering me so that I almost fell into J
the street, put in one brief moment
I was more than fully avenged.
"Just as this ill-mannered chap
shouldered me I had arrived at a fire
hydrant, for which I was about to
sheePout. You know the fire hydrant?
Built of cast iron, very hard, and
standing up rigidly, very rigidly. You
can’t just shoulder a fire hydrant out
of the way, and Just as this man shoul
dered me out of his course he came
upon the fire hydrant, which with me
covering it from view he had not
seen. His next rude, reckless step
forward carried him up against this
fire hydrant fair and squarely per
bunk!
“And It didn’t break his leg, but
it did make him limp; he limped quite
perceptibly. I was pleased to see, as
he walked away.”
He’s Not There.
Jimmy was sure he had something
the matter with him. so he went to
see the doctor. His pulse was felt,
his tongue was examined, his heart
was listened to. and his lungs were
thumped. He seemed to be sound.
"Do you sleep nights?” asked the
physician.
“Yes—but I don’t enjoy my sleep."
"Ah —what disturbs you?"
"Nothing, except I don’t get any
good out of sleeping. I go to sleep
the minute I hit the bed and the min
ute I’m awake I have to get up. How
can a fellow enjoy his sleep when he
doesn’t know it.”
Collecting Antiquities.
Slopay received a card on which
was engraved: "Professor Brace.
Antiquarian.”
He knew no such person, so his curi
osity led him to receive him.
“What is your business, professor?”
he asked, politely.
“I am a collector of antiquities,” an
swered the old man.
“So I imagined. And how can I
serve you?"
"By paying a deposit on this little
bill you have owed fer more than
i three years.”
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“You sometimes contradict yourself
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"I know it,” replied the positive can
didate. "And I want you to under
stand that I am the only man in our
party who dares attempt such a
thing."
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PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
HAD ALL THE BEST OF IT
Wise Girl Selected for Husband Man
Who Had Both Beasons for
Garnering Wealth.
"Daughter,” said the anxious father
to tho eldest daughter of a brcod of
seven, "your mother tells me that
you have had a proposal."
“Yes, father, I have,” demurely re
plied the young woman. "In fact, I
have received several.”
"I hear the ice man proposed to
you?”
"He did."
"And you accepted him, of course?’’
"I did not."
"Unwise child! Think of the money
be coins every summer!”
"The plumber also proposed."
“Ah! That is better. A man of
untold wealth l garnered every winter.
Beyond doubt you told him ’yes!”'
“No, father."
“Wha-a-a-t? Do you mean to tell
me you let so golden an opportunity
slip by ungraßped?" •
“Yob. father. You see, I accepted a
man who sells ice in summer and is
a plumber in winter.”
"Ah, daughter! Fly to my arras!
You make mo weep with pride!”
FINGERS SO PAINFUL
COULD NOT SLEEP
R. F. D. No. 2, Box 252, Seattle,
Wash.—“ The three middle fingers
right at the end of my nails troubled
me for three years. They would get
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I could not sleep. It seemed every time
I had my hands in soapy water they
would get worse. They would be so
very sore, then the nails would come
off, and no more would a new one
grow on when they would begin to get
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smooth. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment
cured me.” (Signed) Mrs. Rieke Hin
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