Friday, January 11, 2013

Rumania Demands A Slice Of Bulgaria.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 11, 1913:
Bucharest Government Threatens to Mobilize Army Unless It Gets Territorial Satisfaction.
BALKAN DEADLOCK MENACING
"Adrianople Is Our Alsace-Lorraine," Cries One Delegate — Russia Keeps Her Army Ready to Act.
    LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 11.— To the grave complications in the Far Eastern situation caused by the deadlock over the possession of Adrianople and the threat and counter-threat of Turkey and the allies to end the peace negotiations was added a new danger yesterday when, according to positive reports from Sofia and Paris, Rumania virtually delivered an ultimatum to Bulgaria.
    Sofia reports that the Bucharest Government has demanded the cession of Silistria and the territory north of a line stretching from there to Kavarna on the Black Sea.
    According to the Paris reports, Rumania decided yesterday to mobilize her army if she did not obtain within forty-eight hours satisfaction from Bulgaria in regard to the rectification of her frontier.
    Several intermediate courses for solving the problem by neither separating Adrianople entirely from Turkey nor giving it entirely to Bulgaria have been refused by both sides. As an indication of the stand the allies have taken in the premises, one of the Bulgarian delegates said yesterday:
    "Adrianople is the Alsace-Lorraine of our war."
    The powers are now awaiting the result of the representations to be made to the Constantinople Government by their Ambassadors in the Ottoman capital. Their note will probably be delivered Monday.

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