Balkan Bloodshed May End At Once.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 24, 1913:
King of Rumania Agrees to Propose the Immediate Cessation of Hostilities.
PEACE MEETING NEXT WEEK
To be Held in Bucharest — Czar Tells Ferdinand That Bulgaria Will Have to Make Sacrifices.
    SOFIA, July 23.— Servia and Greece to-day agreed to the proposal that peace negotiations with Bulgaria take place in Bucharest.
    Replying to a third telegram from King Ferdinand, King Charles of Rumania announces that he has instructed his Government to propose to Servia and Greece an immediate cessation of hostilities pending the formal signature of an armistice. Rumania has further agreed not to interfere with railway or telegraphic communication with northern Bulgaria.
    The conciliatory disposition displayed by Rumania in the last few days is tending to mitigate the resentment felt at the Rumanian invasion.
    The Russian Emperor has sent a message to King Ferdinand in response to Bulgaria's appeal to Russia to end the war, expressing sympathy with Bulgaria's misfortunes, and joy at the prospect of peace, adding, however, that the Bulgarians must be prepared to make sacrifices.
    The Bulgarian delegates will, it is expected, start for Bucharest at the end of the week, and the negotiations for peace will begin next week.
    The Servians yesterday resumed their attacks to the northwest of Kostendil, and in a series of desperate engagements were repulsed.
    It is reported that the powers have assured Bulgaria that it is needless for her to occupy herself with Turkey's irruption into Thrace, as they will deal with it themselves. Rumania has refused Turkey's request that she be allowed to participate in the peace conference.
    Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., (retired,) has made an appeal to the American Red Cross Society for funds to relieve the distress of the Macedonian refugees.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.— An official communication giving details of the reoccupation of Kirk-Kilisseh by the Turkish troops was issued by the Ottoman Government to-day with the object of counterbalancing the Bulgarian allegations as to atrocities committed by the Turkish soldiers.
    It paints in picturesque language the manner in which the inhabitants of Kirk-Kilisseh welcomed the arrival of the Turkish Army, saying:
    "Their emotion was indescribable, and flowers were showered from the windows on the Ottoman troops by women weeping from happiness."

    LONDON, Thursday, July 24.— The prospects for peace among the Balkan States are now much improved. Difficulty, however, is expected owing to the extreme attitude of Greece in claiming possession of Kavala and Drama as well as Salonika.
    The powers seem to have reached no decision as yet as to how to deal with Turkey. Lord Morley, questioned on this subject in the House of Lords last night, deprecated public discussion of such a critical situation.
    A Salonika dispatch to The Morning Post describes a Greek attempt by combined land and sea movements to isolate the 20,000 Bulgarians still remaining between the southern Bulgarian frontier and the Aegean littoral.
    A dispatch from Vienna to The Daily Chronicle says that news has reached there of a great movement of troops in Southern Russia, obviously intended for the coercion of Turkey.

    ATHENS, July 23.— The allies' terms will not be announced before the meeting of the Bucharest conference, but it is known that they will be based on the principle of the balance of power in the Balkans.
    According to the Athens newspapers, the Bulgarian delegates will propose the cession to Greece of Salonika and the hinterland as far as Seres, as well as the line of the Struma River as far as Tsagesi, but will claim for Bulgaria the retention of Kavala. They will also propose that no indemnity or compensation for damages be demanded. These conditions are regarded as impossible.