Arrange Balkan Armistice.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 31, 1913:
Peace Delegates Meet at Bucharest — Russian Fleet Alarms Turks.
    BUCHAREST, July 30.— The Peace Conference was convened this afternoon at the Foreign Office.
    The Rumanian Premier, M. Majoresco, was elected Permanent President of the conference.
    The only business transacted to-day was the agreement to a five days' armistice by the delegates of Rumania, Servia, Greece, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 30.— A Russian fleet which has been cruising in the vicinity of the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus was engaged to-day in making soundings in the Harbor of Zonguldak, a port in Asia Minor, about 150 miles from Constantinople.
    The news of the operations of the Russian fleet has greatly excited the populace of the capital, but it has apparently made no impression on the Government officials. They declare that a good deal more than a naval demonstration will be required to induce the Porte to abandon the Fortress of Adrianople.

    SOFIA, July 30.— A semi-official report issued to-night says that the Bulgarians have taken the offensive against the Greeks and made themselves masters of the upper Bregalnitza River and of the plain of Lechovo, thus separating the Greek and Servian Armies.
    The report says also that the Bulgarians defeated the Greeks in the Mesta Valley, thereby completely clearing the Raslog plain of Greeks.

    LONDON, Thursday, July 31.— The alacrity with which the Greek and Servian delegates to the Balkan peace conference at Bucharest consented yesterday to a five-day truce bears out the reports from Greek sources that transport difficulties were hampering the Greek operations and that the recent fighting had been more favorable to the Bulgarians than the Greeks were willing to admit.
    This seems to be further confirmed by the Sofia semi-official dispatch stating that the Bulgars had won victories on the upper Bregalnitza River and elsewhere.
    It is expected that the conference at Bucharest will last two or three weeks, and the chances are said to be in favor of peace.
    The Government informed Parliament yesterday that Great Britain would take no separate action against Turkey in the Balkan dispute.