Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-22
SERB0- BULGARIAN DIFFERENCES.

The simultaneous cabinet crises in Sofia
and Belgrade indicate a disposition 10 adj
just the differences which
Cabinet have grown up between these
IT.. two members of the Balkan
0iSoS. alliance Greece has differences
with Bulgaria, but. however grave, they
are less serious than those between Ser
via and Bulgaria Besides. Greece Is
strongly intrenehed at Saloniki, and this
fact is perhaps the strongest argument
against the fear of further trouble from
that Source.
On the 18th instant dispatches from So
fla announced tina. n. Guechof, president
of the bulgarian cabinet had resigned
and that DR.. Danef. head of the peace
delegation at London, had been intrusted
with this formation of new ministry.
On the 18th instant N. Pash:tsch. presi-
dent Of the Eervian cabinet. resigned. but
later the crisis was averted by the re-
fussl Of King Peter to accept the res!gna-
ton and the cabinet, with It's chief was
maintained.
NJ. Paehitsch on the eth utimo delivered
In the Skupshtina remarkable expose or
the situation Of Servia and her relations
and differences with Bulgaria which
throw light upon troubles that are hazy
TO the general reader. Since then NJ.
Pashitsch has had an interview with Nj.
Guechof at the frontier and tie inter-
view at Za~ib5t: In said To have produced
the moet satisfactory results.
NJ. Guecho!, K should he understood.
has been .rreconcilab!e heretofore on
the question Of maintaining internally
the treaty signed by Scrv!a prior to the
conflict. and in default OF arriving at an
arrangement proposed to submit the
matter to the arbitration OF Russia.
NJ. Pasfitsch's expose IN the Skupshtina
has created an atmosphere decidedly
sympathetic to Servia in Europe. where.
as elsewhere, the Bulgarian argument
only was known Or understood. The
Bulgarian argument Is that Servia signed
with her a treaty. and that she asks
only the execution Of the bond. Servia.
on the other hand, does not deny the
treaty, but claims that this treaty was
broken by circumstances which create
for her a new situation.
NJ. Pashitsch in his argument gave a
the conflict. The Serbo-
Start of Bulgarian alliance COM
au: menced with a political
convention concluded in
March, 1912 followed by three military
conventions signed in July and Septem-
Der. According to the political conven-
ton. if the war against Turkey was sue
cessful. repartition of the conquered ter
ritory would be made on two principles;
all the territory north and west of the
Char-Dagh should become Serb. all those
situated east of the Strouma and the
Rhodopes should become Bulgar. The
territory situated between the Char-Dagh,
Rhodopes. Archipelago and Lake Ochrida
constituted contested zone and might
be organized into an autonomous prov
ince or divided between the conquerors.
In case of disagreement. it should be
submitted to arbitration Adrianople
and the region east should remain apart
from these stipulations. On the other
hand the territorial accession of Servia
on the Adrlatic was understood. Finally.
Bulgaria promised to put in line on the
Nardar 100000 men destined to cooperate
with the Servian army.
Servia maintains that the conditions OF
the treaty We're not fulfilled. An influ-
ence from mountaineering to the Aus
TRAN veto on the Albanian region-modi-
fed the extent of Servia'S conquered ter
ritory. Servia had. according to the
treaty an inconteStable right to territory
leading to the Adriatic coast. On the de-
mand of Austria hungary the great pow
ers deprived Servia of this lttoral and
thus annulled the clause Of the treaty
that attributed the littoral to Servia "A
clause that permitted Bulgaria to obtain
the territory of the Strouma and the Rho
dope up to Adrianople if it had maintained
that which concerned Servia. That mod-
hcation alone would have been sufficient
to affirm the right of Servia to a COM
pensation on the part Of Bulgaria for the
abandonment of Servia $ most important
conquest. That modification should be
taken into consideration, since from il
proceeded the abandonment of the littoral
by reason of case of force ma ieure.'
x !:
Another modification of the treaty con-
sisted in the prolongaton OF the wal
after the armistice The
war Alter main object of the wal
A,,;,4;.. had been gained if Bulga-
ria had not demanded
Adrianople and the region east of
it. Servia had conscientiously per-
formed her duty as an ally, far beyond
that contemplated by the treaty. Servia.
nevertheless, remained under arms five