Austria Demands End Of Bloodshed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1913:
Warns Servians and Greeks That Mercy Must Be Shown Bulgaria.
ARMENIA NOW A FACTOR
Powers Said to Have Authorized Russia to Occupy It as a Check to Turkey.
    LONDON, Saturday, July 26.— The important development yesterday in the Balkan situation was a demand presented by the Austrian representatives at Athens and Belgrade, for an immediate cessation of hostilities, together with a warning that Austria would not allow Bulgaria to be too greatly humiliated. It was declared in Vienna to-night that, should Greece and Servia still oppose an armistice, a Rumanian army, acting as mandatory of Austria and Russia, would prevent any attack upon Sofia, and that Austria would take even more energetic steps, if necessary, to stop the war. If it is true that Austria and Russia thus have agreed to co-operate, the pressure exercised will doubtless be effective.
    In the military sphere the principal news is that the Servians have invested the ancient fortress at Yidin, Bulgaria, which is situated on the Danube, 139 miles south of Belgrade.
    The fall of the fortress cannot long be delayed; in fact, a Belgrade dispatch reports that Gen. Kutuntcheff's troops are already beginning to surrender. Vidin, which has a population of 15,000, will be Servia's biggest capture during the war.
    A despatch to The Daily Express from Rome says that the Powers have authorized Russia to occupy Armenia in order to compel Turkey to withdraw behind the Enos-Midia line, the new frontier between Turkey and Bulgaria as fixed by the London conference.
    A dispatch to The Daily Telegraph from Bucharest, timed 9 o'clock Friday night, says:
    "News has been received from Sofia of a terrific battle between Servians and Bulgarians near Tsarevoselo, on the River Bregalnitza, in which the Bulgarians were victorious. The Greeks helped the Servians, whose casualties were 10,000. It is probable that the story is greatly exaggerated."
    A dispatch to The Morning Post from Bucharest says that, owing to the appeal of the King of Rumania, the Servians and Greeks have suspended their forward movement. The correspondent adds that the Rumanian troops have made themselves responsible for the safety of King Ferdinand at Sofia.

    SALONIKA, July 25.— The Greek fleet has occupied Dedeagatch, the terminus of the Adrianople-Salonika Railway on the Aegean Sea. The Bulgarians set the town on fire before evacuating it.

    BUCHAREST, July 23.— Greece and Servia to-day both definitely rejected the Rumanian proposal for the conclusion of a provisional armistice during the conference at Nish. The two Governments say they can consent to the cessation of hostilities only after the signing of an agreement for a regular armistice and of the peace preliminaries.

    SOFIA, July 25.— The French Minister here was requested to-day by the Bulgarian women in Philippopolis, Eastern Rumelia, to send the following telegram to President and Mme. Poincaré:
    "Bulgarian mothers, whose sons are on the battlefield, implore Mme. and M. Poincaré with tears in their eyes to save us from the Turkish massacres which threaten Philippopolis. Your intervention is our last hope. Accept our sincere thanks and eternal gratitude."
    The important town of Bausko in Macedonia, where American missionaries have established a large settlement, has been burned by the Greek troops, according to an official Bulgarian report.