Want Big War Indemnity.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 21, 1913:
Balkan States Are to Demand $400,000,000 from Turkey.
    PARIS, May 20.— The Bulgarian Minister of Finance, M. Theodoroff, who is to represent Bulgaria at the financial conference in Paris in connection with the Balkan settlement, said to-day that the Balkan States would ask for a war indemnity of 2,000,000,000 francs, ($400,000,000,) of which Bulgaria's share would be 1,000,000,000 francs.
    Numerous precedents, he said, supported the Balkan States' demand. They did not ask to be indemnified for indirect losses due to the state of war, but merely for reimbursement of purely military expenditures and the cost of pensions for those incapacitated and the families of the killed. It was on these considerations that the sum of 2,000,000,000 francs was based.
    As to a foreign loan, the Minister said, Bulgaria, had no intention of launching an operation involving 500,000,000 francs, as had been reported, but she would content herself with 300,000,000 francs for present needs, contracting other loans as necessities arose.

    LONDON, Wednesday, May 21.— When the last Peace Conference assembled in London to discuss a Balkan settlement it was Bulgaria which indulged in tactics of delay. Now the position is reversed. Bulgaria is anxious to sign the preliminary peace treaty, while the other allies are raising objections. They desire a modification of the provisions of the treaty as decided upon by the powers. Bulgaria has no objection to such modification, but desires that this shall not interfere with the affixing of signatures.
    There appears to be no likelihood that the peace conference will assemble this week. The delegates of the allies held a long meeting yesterday in an endeavor to compose their differences, and finally decided to submit a memorandum of the proposed modifications to the ambassadorial conference, which, according to present arrangements, will not meet until Monday.
    Dr. Daneff, the Bulgarian delegate, after emphasizing the enormous expense of keeping the Bulgarian armies in the field, consented to wait a few days in order to ascertain if the powers could be induced to accept the modifications.