Intra-balkan Quarrels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913:
    Our cable dispatches report that the French Government has notified the Balkan States that no money will be loaned them unless they keep the peace with each other. The force thus brought to bear in the maintenance of peace is a powerful one. Every one of the four States of the recent alliance is poor, is heavily in debt, has incurred great expense in war, and needs much money to repair waste and to provide for immediate and pressing needs. If the Government of France speaks for the concert of Europe, as presumably it does, the Balkan States will finally submit to the terms imposed. If only France and Great Britain were really resolved to close their markets to Balkan loans, this influence would be decisive.
    Meanwhile Servia and Bulgaria have not yet submitted their respective claims before Russia as a mediator and continue to talk angrily. The differences, arise from the terms of the treaty made before the war was begun, which does not specifically cover all the territory that has been conquered, Bulgaria claims that her allies should be content with what they expected when the treaty was made, while she should have all the territory she has occupied beyond what was expected. Servia and Greece reply that Bulgaria has broken an agreement that only strategic towns should be occupied, while they have strictly observed it. They insist that the territory gained in Macedonia, the gain of which was not contemplated when the treaty was made, should now be divided on the ratio applied in the treaty to land which the allies then hoped to conquer. Both Greece and Servia, but especially Greece, present the claims of nationality and point out that less than a third of the population which Bulgaria would control is Bulgarian, while more than half of it is Greek.
    Bulgaria has the practical advantage of actual possession and the further political advantage that it is the strongest, the most energetically governed, the most independent of the three States concerned. It stands to make better terms with the great Powers than either of the others. There are signs that it has come to an understanding with Rumania, and if the two really work together their action might become a matter of some solicitude to Russia. But the keenest observers are agreed that the Powers will combine to keep the former allies in the Balkans from actual conflict, and the notification of the French Government as to loans is the first step in this direction.