Threat By Rumania To Invade Bulgaria.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 10, 1913:
Peace of Europe Menaced from a New Quarter, but Powers Are Likely to Step in.
STARVATION IN ADRIANOPLE
Turkish Commander Says He Would Rather See All the Inhabitants Die Than Surrender.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, Jan. 10.— Threats of action by Rumania have given a new aspect to the European situation.
    Bucharest dispatches state that the Rumanian Government, finding that its negotiations with Bulgaria are making no headway, has decided on an immediate armed occupation of the territory claimed from Bulgaria as the price of Rumanian neutrality during the war with Turkey.
    According to one account, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Ministers at Bucharest, being informed of this intention, made remonstrances which induced the Rumanian Government to postpone for a couple of days the threatened step.
    On the other hand, Rumania's alleged intentions are specially emphasized in Vienna telegrams, one of which suggests that Rumania's dissatisfaction with Bulgaria is chiefly due to the fact that after the war operations in Thrace were discontinued and the armistice was signed Rumania placed her military and diplomatic resources at Bulgaria's disposal and that Bulgaria declined the offer. Hitherto it was understood that the basis of Rumania's claim for compensation was that, by abstaining from an attack on the allies, she facilitated their victory. In the light of these Vienna revelations it would seem that the Rumanian statesmen themselves were not overconfident in the market value of their benevolent neutrality, and tried to obtain additional titles on the booty of the allies by rushing assistance after the enemy had been vanquished.
    In view of the secret agreement which is believed to exist between Rumania and Austria-Hungary, and the effect which a Rumanian invasion of Bulgaria in the present circumstances would have in Russia, it is obvious that such a step would be a serious menace to the peace of Europe. There is, however, every reason to hope that the powers would not tolerate such a wanton attempt to embroil them and to wreck the present negotiations.
    In some quarters it is thought that the announcement of Rumania's intentions, made at a critical moment in the peace negotiations, is not intended seriously, and is merely a bluff.
    Meanwhile no definite step has yet been taken by the great powers in the direction of bringing Turkey to a realization that peace must be purchased at the price put upon it by the allies.