Monday, June 3, 2013

Balkan Premiers To Meet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 3, 1913:
Friendly Settlement Hoped For from St. Petersburg Conference.
    LONDON, June 2.— The prospect for a friendly settlement of the quarrels among the Balkan allies are improving. The interview between the Servian and Bulgarian Premiers on the Bulgarian frontier was cordial, but the two Governments are still at variance on Servia's demand for a revision of the treaty of alliance.
    A most important step toward a solution of the differences is the agreement for a meeting of the Premiers of the four Balkan States, which will soon take place in St. Petersburg, for a joint discussion of the plans for terminating the war.
    Little progress has been made by the conference of peace delegates. They have been largely concerned with a discussion of the re-establishment of the conditions existing before the war and of the exchange of prisoners.
    Dr. S. Danief, the principal Bulgarian peace delegate, left London for Sofia to-day in response to an urgent dispatch from his Government.

    ROME, June 2.— Italy having conceded to Greece the coast line of the former Turkish province of Epirus, between the River Kalamas to the south of Corfu, and the Bay of Phtelia, France, which has supported Athens in the past, has now agreed to the proposal that the southern frontier of Albania run from the south of Cape Stylos, opposite the coast of Corfu, to Goritza, south of Lake Okhrida, the town of Goritza to be included in Albania.
    This solution of the frontier question is regarded here as settling in a satisfactory manner the last difficult point in the reconstruction of the autonomous State of Albania

    SALONIKA, June 2.— A report from a creditable quarter says that a commercial and political understanding was reached yesterday between the Greeks and the Servians against the claims of Bulgaria.
    The Bulgarian commander near Eleuthera, on the eastern coast of the Salonika peninsula, to-day informed the Greek commander that the Bulgarian troops would not advance any further and that the recent movements of the Bulgarians had not been intended in a hostile spirit.

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