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although beaten at Kirk KiHsse, thanks 

 to the cowardice of Mahmoud Mukta 

 Pasha, yet showed great rallying power 

 in the Chatalja lines before Constanti- 

 nople. In Macedonia, however, they 

 were swept before the Servian advance 

 without any opportunity of making a 

 stand. The outstanding feature in the 

 war is that, of all the Powers engaged, 

 Servia alone was adequately prepared 

 for war. Had this not been so, the 

 story of the seven weeks' war would 

 never have been told. Without the 

 assistance of the Servian troops and 

 material it is doubtful whether the Bul- 

 garian armies would have passed beyond 

 Adrianople. The fact that Servia was 

 able to send to Adrianople 80,000 men 

 saved the situation in Thrace. Greece 

 alone did nothing, save capture islands 



where there was little resistance. The 

 Greek successes were largely Press 

 bureau victories, since the line of Greek 

 advance was carefully chosen to avoid 

 conflict with any seriously organised 

 bodies of Turkish troops. The capture 

 of Salonica by the Greeks was no mili- 

 tary feat, since the city preferred the 

 easier terms offered by the Greeks to 

 the certainty of harsher terms which 

 would have been imposed by the ap- 

 proaching Bulgarian and Servian 

 columns. The fact that Servia has 

 saved the situation for the Balkan 

 League, and that she still possesses 

 great reserves of war material and a 

 very efficient army of over 300,000 men, 

 has made her the central point of the 

 Balkan League, and at the same time 

 assured to her the support of Bulgaria 



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A General View of Chatalja Lines and the City of 



