WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Envoys Go To Paris To Discuss Peace.
New York Times 100 years ago today, November 1, 1912:
Allies' Representatives on the Way — Turkey Ready for Mediation.
SOFIA SUSPECTS THE POWERS
Balkan States Will Stand Together to Keep the Hard-Won Fruits of Their Victory.
LONDON, Friday, Nov. 1.—The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Chronicle sends the following:
"The Servian Foreign Minister and the Greek Premier, who brought about the Balkan Alliance, started for Paris to-day, it is supposed to negotiate with Premier Poincaré.
"It is understood that the Bulgarian Army in following up its successes will advance on Constantinople. The Balkan allies will not accept an armistice, but are willing to negotiate peace direct with Turkey."
It is believed here that a settlement will be arranged either by the Porte suing for peace or by intervention of the powers, and an interesting question involving difficult diplomatic problems will immediately arise as to the division of the spoils of war — a question concerning not only the victorious allies, but also Russia, Austria, Rumania, and possibly other powers.
Describing the defeat of the Turks at Kailar, Macedonia, a dispatch to The Daily Chronicle says they left 2,000 dead, while 500 were taken prisoners. Seven guns fell into the hands of the Greeks.
The main body of the Greek Army is now marching in force to attack Salonika.
In dispatches from Vienna it is asserted that in any event the entry of Bulgarian troops into Constantinople will not be tolerated by the powers. Even Russia is disinclined to permit such an occurrence.
Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, stated yesterday in the House of Commons that when the military situation in the Balkan Peninsula permitted, the powers would take steps to insure a durable peace between the belligerents.
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