Powers Give Way Again To Allies.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 10, 1913:
Bulgaria Gains Her Point as to Turkish Frontier — Greece to Get Most of Islands.
FIRM REGARDING ALBANIA
Powers Insist That They Fix New State's Boundaries — Servia and Montenegro May Combine.
    LONDON, Thursday, April 10.— The great powers will make certain concessions to the Balkan allies in an endeavor to bring about peace. They have agreed on the reply that is to be made to the objections of the allies offered to the bases for mediation as proposed by the powers.
    The concession to Bulgaria is acceptance of her proposal that the frontier off the ottoman Empire shall be a straight line between Enos and Midia, instead of following the courses of the Ergene and Maritza Rivers, as the powers first suggested.
    While reserving the status of the Aegean Islands for future determination by the powers, they seek to placate Greece by giving assurances that a majority of them will be ceded to her.
    The powers also reserve the question of a war indemnity for settlement by a financial commission to meet in Paris. They insist that they themselves will fix the boundaries of Albania.
    King Nicholas of Montenegro has definitely arranged plans for his abdication if force should be employed by the European powers against his little kingdom to prevent it from obtaining the territory it considers necessary for its independence, according to information obtained in official Montenegrin circles in London.
    The arrangements for this action were made by King Nicholas in consultation with King Peter of Servia, the agreement being that King Nicholas should abdicate and with his family quit the country. Montenegro would then effect a union with Servia, while King Nicholas and his family would receive an appropriate provision from the civil list and would reserve the right of succession to the Serbo-Montenegrin throne.
    A dispatch from Vienna to The Daily Chronicle says that King Nicholas of Montenegro has been sounded by the powers as to whether he would accept financial compensation to the amount of $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 and an additional strip of coast territory in consideration of his giving up all claim to Scutari.
    Austria, the dispatch adds, will object to the granting of more territory, and will not participate in any compensation allowed. It is also learned that the allies, who have financed Montenegro since the beginning of the war, will refuse to advance any more money. Servia will decline to send any more troops, and Greece will refuse to lend transports.
    Meanwhile the powers are endeavoring to induce Turkey and Bulgaria to agree to a virtual truce, pending negotiations for peace.