Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

provided In their
treaty of alliance Of
March 13 1912, neither accepted for .
fact, but, according to dispatches OF the
56th ultimo. the ''Bulsarians attacked
servaans and Greeks along the entire Hne
In Macedonia
The dispatches ore confessedly obscure
and conflicting, and 1t 10 difficult. IL not
impossible. to distinguish the truth
From Athens 1t appears that the Greeks
are driving the Bulgarfans. with heavy
losses, from Kavala and SeroA From
Vienna the Bulgarian government is re-
ported to have sent a circular to the Ea-
ropean powers expressing its readiness
to negotiate for peace.
And 1t ID added: THE Bulgarian and
Servian commanders-in-chisf are nego-
tiatinE an armisuce, as the losses of
both armies in killed and wounded are
Immense, and 1t Is feared that the
epidemic of cholera which has broken
out among the troops may yet get be-
yond control"
King Peter Of Servia has anticipated
the world horror over this disgusting
manifestation Of observation-disclosures His
proclamation to the people says: THE
erly help and the blood Of the heroes who
fell on the Thracian battlefelds. have
given the Slavonic nations and the civil
lied world an ahominable' example OF in
gratitude and greediness."
Bulgaria. first Of all in the matter of
the partition Of the territory taken from
Turkey. invites Servia's
4ulgaTiA's attention to their treaty
c,.. Of alliance OF March ID.
1912. Bulgaria claims to
have executed all the engagements as
sumed by her toward Servia. Bulgaria
was not held to grant compensations to
Servia for northern Albania, which Eu-
rope had taken from her; Bulgaria. II
was recalled, had been obliged to cede
Silestria to Roumania and likewise to
evacuate the shores Of the Marmora.
Finally Macedonia was not res rul-
liuS." to be absorbed according to the will
war to nberate the people from the otto
man yoke and give them their own coun-
try. Now the population of the region
Macedonia claimed by Servia) Is Bull
garian for the greater part. In conse-
quence Bulgaria refused the revision of
the treaty of 1912. as demanded by Ser
via, and asks arbitration Of the zone con-
tended for in the treaty within the linn
its fixed in advance.
Servia, on the other hand. does not
deny the terms of the treaty of March Ii.
1912 but she pleads that those terms
have been changed to her great disad-
vantage. Servia's first note to Bulgaria
proposed the revision of the treaty. The
second note proposed the rehabilitation
and the reduction of the electives of
number. The third note was the reply OF
Servia to Bulgaria's note. in which the
latter government would accept demob-
ilization upon condition that Servia recog-
nized the conditions Of the treaty OF
March 13, 1912
To the coneiliatory propositions of Ser
via, which has shown a spirit Of mag
nanimtty from first to last, Bulgaria re-
piled by asking for the establishment Of a
condominium In the regions occupied by
ernment at Belgrade, having in mind how
Bulgaria had acted In the matter of
introducing Rulgarians into Saloniki, re-
fused any arrangement Of that nature.
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The correspondent OF the Temps at
Athens writes that there were indications
that Bulgaria was
Why Greece seeking a quarrel with
n.-,.:.I Greece, whom she &C.
ritories occupied first by Bulgarians and
of maltreating Bulgarians, all of which
were vexatious and unfounded Greece
for a fact had accorded permission of
two Bulgarian battalions to enter Sa-
loniki. Profiting by that permission. Bull
garia had introduced into Saloniki an
army corps.
Seryia was sacrificed in the agreement
of March, 1913. Europe took from Ser
via Albania, which she had conquered
likewise the Adriatic, all the benefits. in
deed, of her conquest, which was done at
the fnstigation Of Austria and Italy.
Bulgaria is incontestably within her
rights legally. Servia is right equitably
There was never case that better lent
itself to arbitration, and the treaty for
a fact should have been the basis OF
arbitration in connection with Servia' Z
reasons for Its revision.
The treaty was made for the main
purpose Of the liberation Of Macedonia
and her people from the Turkish yoke
There never entered the minds of the
contestants the annexation of the left
branch of the Martha, the capture and
occupation Of Adrianople. nor the ac-
QUESTION of Thrace. The Dardanelles
dream.
The grand battles at the end of Oc-
tober turned the Turkish world upside
down and smashed Turkey irrevocably
Inc TURK al IHdt moment was READY 10
yield everything In Europe and get
away to Asia bag and baggage, led
already by his shattered and dismayed
army.
The Journal des Debats, which appears
to be well Informed on this head writes:
TT may not be too often said that the
prolongation of the war from November.
1872 to May 80 1919 is due exclusively
to Bulgaria's ambition to possess Con-
stantinople."
Some idea of the spirit that dominates
in Bulgaria may be formed by the men
ton OF a grand nationalist
Bulgar meeting in Sofia on the asd
ultimo. At this meeting the
EeFVOI. indivisibility of the Bull
gartan country was proclaimed. and King
Ferdinand was invited to .order his troops
to march to Bulgarian territory to drive
away the Servians
Thus they are far removed from the
crusade soiemnly announced to the world
in October last The crusaders are throw
ing crosses for a fact at each other ana
the time has come to separate them
The central committee on interior Bull
aarian organization met on the nth OF
Nav and declared: ''The interior or
ganization rejects all cpntestation over
Territories and recognizes as Bulgariaa
country all Macedonia 1t declares that
from the present if the Macedonian PROB
lem should receive q solution contrary to
the wishes of the people the organiza-
t;on Will not suspend its revolutionary
oot;o, i,ut in the struggle 1t will use all