Britain Afraid To Coerce Turkey.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 30, 1913:
Indignation Meetings in India to Protest Against Driving Her From Adrianople.
SOFIA IS QUITE ISOLATED
Last Connecting Link of Railway Cut by Servians — Another Fierce Greek-Bulgarian Battle.
    LONDON, Wednesday, July 30.— The Ambassadorial conference yesterday settled the status of the new Albania.
    A Prince will be nominated six months hence to rule over the new State. In the meantime a commission of control, composed of one representative of each power, will organize the administration with the aid of a gendarmerie, with Swedish officers.
    The conference has done nothing officially in the direction of coercing Turkey, and as the strongest feeling is being manifested at indignation meeting throughout India against any attempt to drive the Turks from Adrianople, it is not likely that the British Government would be anxious to initiate such coercion.
    The Greeks are still operating by sea and by land. The Bulgarians who were defeated recently at Kresna Pass turned upon the pursuing Greeks to the north-west of Djuma. Furious fighting followed, the reinforced Bulgarians making a desperate attempt to recapture their lost position. The battle lasted throughput Sunday. The Greeks were thrice ejected at the point of the bayonet from one position. The fighting took place over an extended front and both sides suffered heavily.
    According to a Greek account of the battle, neither side had gained a decisive advantage at nightfall on Sunday, but under cover of darkness the shaken Bulgars retired after abandoning and setting fire to the town of Djuma, which the Greeks occupied later.
    A correspondent with the Greeks says that their losses in the previous battle for the possession of the Kresna defiles were 2,500 men killed or wounded. The losses in Sunday's battle are not given.
    The correspondent adds that except for rear guard actions the Bulgars can make no further stand beyond Dubnitza, twenty-two miles south of Sofia, and that now not a single Bulgarian soldier remains in Macedonia except the prisoners.
    The Greek fleet has occupied the ports of Lagos, Maronia, and Makri on the coast of Thrace, and a Greek force has captured the town of Oumurjina, twelve miles inland from the Aegean Sea and about sevenly-five miles northwest of Adrianople.

    BELGRADE, July 29.— The investment of Sofia is complete, the last connecting link of the railway having been cut by the Servian troops.
    The Bulgarian forces concentrated in Sofia as well as the inhabitants of the capital are threatened with famine, and the Bulgarian Government has therefore asked Rumania to consent to the opening of the railroad line running from Varna to Sofia in order that provisions may be brought into the city.
    It is expected that Rumania will consent to this arrangement.