Bulgaria Takes No Blame.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 13, 1913:
Daneff Disavows Responsibility for Recent Hostilities.
    SOFIA, July 12.— Premier Daneff today denied that Bulgaria was responsible for recent events in the Balkans. In a long statement in Parliament he reviewed the circumstances leading up to incidents that "had developed into a great and sanguinary conflict."
    The Premier said Bulgaria had ample opportunity for finding a cause for war in the Servian provocations but she did not desire war. The question of who had provoked the present hostilities would, he said, be decided by a proper inquiry, but the fact that the Bulgarian troops were scattered along the entire frontier and from the Danube to the Aegean Sea clearly showed that there had been no premeditation on the part of Bulgaria.
    Pointing out that he accepted Russia's offer of mediation as soon as it was offered, Premier Daneff said that as early as Wednesday he ordered the suspension of operations. He instructed the Bulgarian troops in old Servia to retire to the old boundary, while those in Macedonia were ordered to remain on the defensive and hold their positions. He thus not only accepted mediation but put an end to the sanguinary conflicts, so far as it lay in his power to do so.
    The Premier said that he saw nothing to justify the incursion of Rumanian troops into Bulgaria. Bulgaria, he said, repudiated all responsibility and eagerly submitted her case to the judgment of Europe.