Most Brutal Of Wars.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 29, 1913:
View of Lafayette Young, Who Has Arrived in London from Balkans.
    LONDON, July 28.— Ex-United States Senator Lafayette Young arrived here to-night from the Servian Army headquarters at Nish, which he left last Thursday. He said he was glad to reach London and to be able to dine in a hotel after weeks spent with Maddin Summers, United States Consul at Belgrade, in the war zone, traveling in freight cars, sleeping on the ground because of the lack of tents, and eating black bread.
    Mr. Young said that, from the number of mutilated wounded men he saw, the war in the Balkans must be the most brutal ever fought. Americans, he said, could not appreciate the intense hatred existing between the Bulgars, Servians, and Greeks. Foreigners in the Balkans, he added, spoke slightingly of the fighting ability of the warring factions, declaring that their boastings were disproportionate to their achievements.
    "The most serious situation for the Balkans," said Mr. Young. "is the utter absence of anything for the people to live on when Winter comes. Wheat and oats are rotting in the fields and corn is being strangled by weeds. The army is taking all the hay for the thousands of oxen engaged in transport service."
    Mr. Young said that cholera was prevalent among the soldiers everywhere in the war zone.
    Beyond a report from Sofia that Turkey has expressed readiness to open peace negotiations with Bulgaria, there are no fresh developments in the Balkan situation.
    The Porte has dispatched Osman Nizami Pasha, the Minister of Public Works, to London on a special mission, the object of which is not known.
    It is officially announced from Bucharest that the advance guard of the Rumanian Army has halted close to Sofia in the east.