Photo by Frederick Moore 



A SERVIAN KOMMITTADJI (BANDSMAN ), THK CHIEF, 

 VOIVODA PDTKO 



One of the Servian revohitionists of Macedonia who, after 

 operating for years in Macedonia, finally served as guerillas in 

 the present war. 



movement. It w^as always said round the 

 club in Sofia that when the Bulgarians 

 struck their movement would be hard and 

 fast against Constantinople. Consider 

 how this little nation, with only about 3 

 million inhabitants, which the average 

 American was wont to consider a primi- 

 tive country of "Dagos," mobilized their 

 army of 350,000 men. In two weeks 

 .after the call to arms their forces were 



camped behind the fron- 

 tier mountains ready to 

 move through the border 

 passes on word from 

 Sofia that peace was defi- 

 nitely broken. 



Those who know some- 

 thing of the Turk can 

 picture him at the front 

 on receiving news that 

 his own government had 

 declared war against the 

 Bulgarians and Servians, 

 not waiting for those 

 enemies to follow with 

 Greece the example of 

 Montenegro. 



The news gave the 

 Turkish soldier a meas- 

 ure of keen satisfaction. 

 But, slow-moving and 

 generally lazy, his camp 

 was not stirred by the 

 news as was that of the 

 Bulgar. Slowly he gath- 

 ered in little groups with 

 his fellow-soldiers, knelt 

 and gave thanks to Al- 

 lah, made coffee and 

 rolled cigarettes, and 

 spent a happy night 

 round a comfortable 

 camp-fire discussing how 

 he would make the Bul- 

 garian girls dance to his 

 music when he entered 

 Bulgaria and the Bulgar 

 riien deserted their wo- 

 men and children to him. 

 But the Turk himself 

 and not the Bulgar was 

 the man who was going 

 to hop and skip to get 

 out of the way of the 

 enemy. The Bulgars 

 came through the passes 

 with speed that amazed 

 the military authorities of other nations, 

 and, after three quick battles following 

 rapidly upon each other, the Turkish 

 army was driven back to the sheltering 

 positions of the Chataldja lines, about 30 

 miles from Constantinople. 



the; BULGARIANS AVOID THI) TRAP 



It was evidently the opinion of the 

 Turkish generals, and also of the Ger- 



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