Sequels To The Balkan War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 13, 1913:
    The spirit of savagery is still uppermost, it seems, among the people who were victorious in the Balkan war and those who were defeated as well. There have been bloody battles between Servians and Bulgarians lately, and although the Governments of both countries have now agreed to accept Russian arbitration of the boundary questions which are in dispute, yet the danger of outbreaks along the border is not eliminated. The demobilization of three-fourths of the armies of both countries, proposed in an official note from Belgrade to Sofia, is a wise plan, indicating that the Servian Government is anxious for peace; but the war habit has grown upon the Balkan peoples. Serbs fought for Servia, Montenegrins for their own country, and Bulgars for theirs in the fierce contest with the Turks, and they have not yet absorbed the idea of a Balkan empire or league, with the various peoples living in harmony and working for their common advancement and protection.
    In conquered and dismembered Turkey the situation is terrible. The assassination of Chefket Pasha was a foregone conclusion. The Turks, as the Constantinople correspondent of The Times noted in his wireless dispatches yesterday, "have a lot of accounts to settle" and they have one historic way of settling such accounts. Chefket himself seems to have courted death, and to have been certain that his days were numbered, since the killing of Nazim Bey in January. He refused to take any precautions to save his life, and accepted his fate with the calmness of a true Mohammedan. It is not unlikely that there will be other reprisals. The outlook in Turkey is dark; the end of the great war has not brought peace.