Allies Rebuff The Powers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 6, 1913:
Propose Modified Peace Terms and Powers Promptly Yield a Bit.
    SOFIA, April 5.— The Bulgarian Government to-day handed to the diplomatic representatives of the powers its reply to the communication of March 22 concerning bases of peace between Turkey and the Balkan allies.
    The reply, which is that of the Balkan Nations, accepts the conditions of mediation, proposed by the powers, subject to reservations which practically nullify the proposed terms.
    The propositions of the powers were:
    (1) The frontier of the Ottoman Empire in Europe shall start at Enos, and, following the course of the Maritza River and then that of the Ergens, shall end at Midia. All territories situated to the west of this line shall be ceded by Turkey to the allied States, with the exception of Albania, the delimitation of which shall be fixed by the powers.
    (2) The question of the Aegean Islands shall be settled by the powers.
    (3) Turkey shall abandon all claims to Crete.
    (4) The powers cannot favorably entertain the demand for indemnity, but they will admit the allies to participate in the discussion of the International Commission in Paris for an equitable settlement of their participation in the Ottoman debt, and in the financial charges of the districts to be handed over to them. Turkey is to be asked to take part in the labors of this commission.
    (5) The great powers declare at the same time that as soon as these bases are accepted hostilities shall cease. The reply or the allies contained the following counter propositions:
    (1.) In the definite determination of the frontier of the Province of Thrace the line, indicated in the conditions formulated by the powers, shall be taken as a basis and not as a definitive line.
    (2.) The islands in the Aegean Sea shall be ceded by Turkey to the Balkan allies.
    (3.) The allies consider they should know beforehand the frontiers, proposed for the future State of Albania, trusting that they will be in conformity with those they proposed in London.
    (4.) The Balkan allies demand for a war indemnity must be accepted in principle, the task of fixing the amount being left to a commission, which is to study financial questions. On this the Balkan allies will be represented.
    (5.) The Balkan allies agree that the operations of war shall cease as soon as the above conditions have been favorably received and admitted by the European Powers. , Contrary to expectation, the European powers promptly met the objections of the Balkan allies to the terms of mediation originally proposed by making concessions designed to obtain an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Balkan Peninsula.
    In a note presented to the Bulgarian Government to-day, the powers proposed that the Thracian frontier be formed by a line drawn from Midia, on the Black Sea, to Enos, on the Aegean Sea, which would give Bulgaria both banks of the River Maritza in accordance with her demands. It also suggested that all financial questions, such as the indemnity, be left to the decision of a technical commission to meet in Paris.