Balkan Envoys Disgusted.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 20, 1912:
Angered by Turkish Delays — Allies Strengthen Tchatalja Forces.
    LONDON, Friday, Dec. 20.— The peace Delegates held a brief session yesterday. The Turkish delegates announced that fresh instructions had been dispatched from Constantinople by special courier; therefore an adjournment until to-morrow (Saturday) was taken, by which time the instructions should reach London, News comes from the Ottoman capital that the Government is empowering the delegates to proceed with the negotiations with the Greek as well as with the Balkan plenipotentiaries. This decision would tend toward peace, as there has been a suspicion that the Turks were manoeuvring for time so that they might strengthen their army.
    According, however, to a news agency dispatch from Constantinople, the Ottoman Government has authorized its delegates to propose that Adrianople and all the other besieged Turkish towns shall be revictualed. If, it is added, the proposal is not accepted by the delegates of the Allies, negotiations are to be broken off.
    After the sitting yesterday some of the Balkan delegates expressed disgust at the way affairs were dragging, while they remarked five armies and three besieged towns were enduring all the sufferings of war, and the respective countries were the prey of desolation, misery, and death.
    Bulgarian delegates observed that the Turks were much mistaken if they delayed the conference so as to strengthen their army with troops from Asia. These reinforcements were chiefly composed of undisciplined Bashi-Bazouks, who would prove a serious danger not to the enemy, but to the Turks themselves.
    In the meantime, the allies are concentrating greater forces along the Tchatalja front in order to enable them, if war is resumed, to arrive at Constantinople within a few days.