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i9i3] CAPTURE OF ADRIANOPLE
hostilities. For five weeks more the definite
winding-up of the war was discussed in London—with the help
once more of delegates of the belligerents—but an
armistice was soon concluded, and one foresaw clearly
that military operations would not begin again.
Henceforth the relations of the Allies with Turkey
took a secondary place, while the interest of the
moment was centred on the relations of the Allies
amongst themselves.
The capture of the powerful defences of Adrianople
will remain for ever one of the most glorious pages in
the military annals of Bulgaria. Just as they had done
throughout the war, the Bulgarians distinguished
themselves by their courage, their sang-froid, and their will
to win at all costs. Unfortunately, side by side with
these admirable traits of the Bulgarian character, the
taking of Adrianople revealed some very ugly ones.
The Bulgarians generally appeared to deny any
Serbian participation in the taking of Adrianople,
whereas the Serbians had not only helped them with
their big guns, but had also finally carried the place by
a brilliant sally. If Ferdinand had had any true political
perception, he would have used all his efforts to clear
up these mutual misunderstandings. He should have
come to Adrianople, reviewed the Serbian and
Bulgarian troops collectively, have made a cordial speech
to the Serbian officers, have mentioned in dispatches
to both armies the courage of the Serbians, and the
enormous services they had rendered their allies, and
\a great many things would thus have been smoothed
over and forgotten. But Ferdinand was not
contemplating anything of the kind. He was preparing to
come from Sofia to Adrianople to make his triumphal
entry into the conquered town, leaving the Serbians
completely out of this exclusively Bulgarian festivity.
The festivity never took place: cholera having broken
out at Adrianople, Ferdinand—who is afraid of many
things, but particularly of all epidemics and infection—
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