Balkan Foes Are Fighting.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 17, 1913:
    LONDON, Monday, March 17.— With the improvement in weather conditions, the armies in the Balkans have become more active, although no news of a pitched battle of any importance has come through.
    According to official reports issued at Sofia, both the Bulgarians and Turks at Tchatalja have been moving, and reconnoitering parties have been in collision. In one case a rather sharp engagement resulted. Two Bulgarian parties sent out in the direction of Akalon took a redoubt to the east of that village at the point of the bayonet. The Turks, haying been reinforced, tried to recapture it, but in the attack lost 300 dead and wounded, who were left on the field.
    The Turks advanced toward Kadikeui the same day, but were repulsed.
    There is little prospect of the acceptance by Turkey of the peace terms proposed by the allies. Dispatches from Constantinople say that leading members of the Committee of Union and Progress have decided that the conditions cannot be accepted. The Grand Vizier, Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, to-day visited the Red Crescent Society find begged the members to continue their efforts, as the Government was resolved to continue the war.
    Meanwhile the agitation against Bulgaria continues in Greece. The Greeks in Thrace and Eastern Macedonia have sent a petition to Athens against being incorporated in an enlarged Bulgaria. Premier Venizelos in reply boldly said that he had notified the allies long ago that Greece laid no claim to Thrace. This announcement, which was made in the Chamber of Deputies, aroused vigorous protests.
    A dispatch from Belgrade says that anti-Bulgarian articles are also becoming common in the Servian newspapers. The Greek and Servian Cabinets are becoming intimate, and it is reported that they have already concluded a defensive treaty.
    According to Constantinople reports, conditions in the Gallipoli Peninsula are quiet. An engagement in the Tchatalja district is reported, the Turkish warships, bombarding the Bulgarian positions at Silivri, but with what result is not known.
    Late advices say that the Montenegrin siege guns have begun a fierce bombardment of Scutari, part of which is in flames.
    The Greeks continue to gather in stray bodies of Turks. Near Arnitza the Greek cavalry captured two Turkish battalions, comprising 1,570 men and 30 officers.
    A Belgrade dispatch says that 119 men were killed during the bombardment by the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh of Servians on the Adriatic coast.