Bulgars Beat Serbs And Lose To Greeks.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 6, 1913:
Battle Is Raging Over a Fifty-Mile Area in Macedonia, with Varying Issue.
TURKS EAGER TO MEDDLE
Rumania's Attitude May Prove Decisive — Great Powers Will Not Interfere.
    VIENNA, July 5.— That the campaign against the Bulgarians is almost hopeless is the opinion in Servian official quarters, according to private reports from Belgrade.
    The Servian loss of the Timok division, in addition to the breaking up of the Drina division, is regarded in well-informed circles in Vienna as presaging a speedy conclusion of the war.
    For Bulgaria the attitude of Rumania is thought here to be the greatest menace. The Rumanian army has been provisionally mobilized, but the Government makes her future attitude dependent upon the course of the negotiations with Bulgaria. It is hoped here that Bulgarian statesmen will perceive the necessity of coming to a speedy and amicable settlement with their neighbor, whose friendship at the present moment is of such vital necessity.
    Desperate fighting has been in progress since yesterday near Koprulu, according to the Sofia correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse, who says the Bulgarian troops repulsed the Servian southern wing with heavy losses and expect to occupy the town soon.
    The same correspondent telegraphs that a great battle, extending over an area of 50 miles, is being fought north of Salonika where 80,000 Greeks are opposed to 100,000 Bulgarians. The Bulgarians since Monday had made some minor attacks with the object of inducing the Greeks to take the offensive. The bait was taken and the battle was begun. The result is expected to be a deciding factor in the Greek and Bulgarian campaign.
    The strategy of the Bulgarian commanders forced the Greeks to abandon several fortified positions near Salonika, Langasa Lake and Beshik Lake. The Greeks are now threatened by a flanking attack from a column of 30,000 Bulgarians, advancing south of Tahynos Lake.
    The Bulgarian troops are reported by the correspondent of the Tagblatt to have reoccupied Ghevgheli at the point of the bayonet after the Greeks had been in possession of the place forty-eight hours. The Bulgarians are reported to be advancing on Egri Palanka, where a great battle with the Servians is imminent.

    LONDON, July 5.— The Bulgarian Legation received to-night official confirmation of the surrender of the Servian Timok division, numbering 4,000. Six machine guns, twenty-seven quick-firers, and a complete commissariat train were also captured.
    Two Servian regiments which crossed the frontier into Bulgaria, according to advices here, have been driven back to the north of Egri Palanka.

    ATHENS, July 5.— The Bulgarian Minister is preparing to leave Athens. The Bulgarian flag on the legation was lowered to-day.

    SOFIA, July 5.— The Greek Minister withdrew from here to-day after placing the Greek interests in the hands of the French Legation.

    SALONIKA, July 5.— The Greek troops to-day captured from the Bulgarians the small town of Lahana on the railroad from Salonika to Serres. It is regarded as the most important position in the vicinity and the key to Serres, which lies about twenty miles to the northeast. The losses on both sides were considerable.
    King Constantine has sent the following message to all divisions:
    "To my valiant army, which has shown such heroism during the recent battles, crushing the enemy whenever it has met him, I express my admiration and pride at being at its head."