Allies' Demands Disgust Powers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 16, 1913:
Attitude of the Balkan Nations Must Be Modified if Peace Is to be Made.
    COLOGNE, March 15.— The Balkan allies will have to modify their attitude, as shown in their reply to the offer of mediation by the European powers, according to an inspired dispatch from Berlin to The Cologne Gazette.
    The great powers find the proposals of the Balkan nations in several respects inadmissible, particularly the demand for the surrender of Scutari. The powers, says the dispatch, reserve to themselves the settlement of the boundaries of the future Albanian State comprising Scutari.

    ATHENS. March 15.— Strong feeling against the Bulgarians is spreading with rapidity among the Greek population, and only the strong hand of the Government prevents a virulent outbreak.
    The editor of the newspaper Chronos was sentenced to-day to a week's imprisonment for editorially denouncing Bulgarian avarice, and proceedings have been begun against several other persons for similar offenses.
    The irritation of the Greeks arose from the Bulgarians laying claim to great stretches of former Turkish territory which Greece regards as hers by right of conquest.

    ROME, March 15.— M. Gryparis, formerly Greek Minister to Turkey, arrived here to-day to urge the Italian Government to help Greece obtain the annexation of the Aegean Islands, which the Greeks occupied during the war.
    M. Gryparis is the bearer of credentials from the King and Premier Venizelos. He will present a long memorandum enumerating the racial, historical, religious, and educational reasons in favor of annexation. He will point out, in addition, the advantage to the powers generally, and to Italy particularly, that the cause of further complications should be removed.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, March 15.— Official bulletins state that a slight bombardment of Adrianople took place yesterday.
    A detachment of the allies on the Tchatalja lines tried to advance in the direction of Hissarbeyli, in the Lake Derkos region, but was driven back by artillery fire.
    A semi-official note says that the allies' terms are regarded as unacceptable and indicate that the Balkan States have no sincere desire to facilitate the efforts of the Powers to end the conflict. The Porte, while awaiting the proposals, which the Powers will undoubtedly transmit, will continue active military operations.
    Loufti Bey, Secretary of Prince Sabah Eddine, who has been in hiding since the discovery of a conspiracy against the Government which he is accused of organizing, was arrested to-day. Several other arrests have been made of prominent men. but the charges have not been disclosed.