AT ADRIANOPLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1916, Page 6

AT ADRIANOPLE.

BULGARIANS NOT THE VICTORS. The ability of the Bulgars to make a successful attack on Salonika is based by German writers on the alleged brilliancy of their attack on Adrianople during the Balkan war. The correspondent of a London journal, however, pricks this bubble. He writes: — It might be assumed that the capture of Adrianople in the war of the Balkan Confederation against Turkey was entirely due to Bulgarian prowess, Without.in any way questioning the skill of General Vassof and the intrepidity of his'army, the facts of the case are: That for the siege of that city Serbia supplied a large army—said to be 50,000 men. That a large number of guns which had never been used were sent by Serbia, and contributed greatly to the success achieved. That during the war referred to the Serbian factories supplied vast quantities of ammunition to Bulgaria* That Serbia lent Bulgaria a considerable sum of money for war purposes. That it was the Serb commander who received first the surrender of the city.