Greek King Again Wins A Big Victory.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 4, 1913:
By an Amazingly Rapid Movement He Surprises and Routs the Bulgars.
LOSSES OF SERVIANS 6,000
Those of the Bulgarians in Fighting with the Serbs Even Greater — Rumania's Army Mobilizing.
    LONDON, Friday, July 4.— The Salonika correspondent of The Daily Telegraph describes King Constantine of Greece as again displaying amazing rapidity in his military movements.
    The Greek Second Division, which left Salonika after disarming the Bulgarians at about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, camped at night at Baldja, fifteen miles to the north, where the King arrived the next morning. He ordered a general advance of eight divisions, and at dusk on Wednesday the entrenched positions at Kilkish were taken at the point of the bayonet, after the Greek troops had waded waist-deep through a three-mile belt of marshland. The correspondent adds:
    "I believe that the battle of Kilkish will be immortalized as one of the finest examples of lightning offensive in the military records of the world. The Bulgarians made a great stand within three miles of Kilkish, but the Greeks, 8,000 strong, delivered a terrific bayonet charge, taking, the position and causing immense losses."
    Official reports issued at Athens announce the capture of Guevgheli and Kilkish after severe fighting and heavy losses. It is added that Bulgarian prisoners declared that the Bulgarians were preparing to attack Salonika.
    A dispatch from Athens announces that the Greeks have occupied Nigrita, to the northeast of Salonika, which they found burning, the inhabitants having been massacred by the Bulgarians.
    An Athens dispatch to The Daily Telegraph says that the Greek Minister at Sofia has been recalled and that the King will proclaim war to-morrow. The Bulgarians, this dispatch adds, are retreating over Vardar Bridge under the fire of the Greek artillery.
    There is no news from the Bulgarian side contradicting the reports of the Servian occupation of Istib, and the recapture by the Greeks of Guevgheli, which may therefore be regarded as correct.
    The Bulgarians' plan to prevent a junction of the Greek and Servian forces at Guevgheli has failed. It was believed that Bulgaria aimed at dividing the Greek and Servian armies, defeating them separately, and then, wheeling around, dealing with Rumania.
    Greece and Servia, however, suffered less than Bulgaria in the last campaign, and their armies are in better condition.
    The general condition of affairs in regard to the Balkan rupture is extraordinary. The twenty-four hours which the Bulgarian Government accorded to Greece and Servia to cease operations has expired. During the same period Bulgaria undertook to abstain from hostilities in order to give Russia time to intervene in favor of peace. But hostilities are being carried on on both sides, apparently with the fierceness characteristic of the Balkan soldiers, and no declaration of war has yet been made. The various diplomatic representatives are still at their posts.
    There is now only the faintest hope that Russia or the powers will be able to prevent a struggle which will decide whether or not Bulgaria shall be the predominant State in the Balkans.
    A new complication arose yesterday in the decision of Rumania to mobilize her army. What rôle Rumania will play is quite unknown, but it is generally expected that she will follow her traditional policy of waiting on events, in readiness to take advantage wherever it may be obtained with the least risk and trouble. Rumania's mobilization causes uneasiness in Austria, where it is regarded as a defeat for Austrian diplomacy.
    The Belgrade Government issued no report from the theatre of war yesterday, but, according to a dispatch from Premier Pasitch to the Servian Legation in London, the Servian losses in the first three days' fighting were 6,000 killed and wounded. This included the great battle at Ovtchepolye. The Servians, it is stated, captured 2,000 prisoners and 300 guns from the Bulgarians, whose casualties exceeded those of the Sevians. Sixty of the prisoners were officers.
    That very heavy fighting occurred is made evident by the arrival of 2,000 wounded at Belgrade.
    A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that war is to be declared by Servia against Bulgaria at Uskub, for which place King Peter and Premier Pasitch departed from Belgrade yesterday morning. The proclamation will state that Servia has been provoked by Bulgaria to declare war.

    BUCHAREST, July 3.— King Charles to-day ordered the general mobilization of the Rumanian Army.

    SALONIKA, July 3.— The battle between the Greek and Bulgarian troops, which began yesterday, resulted in a complete victory for the Greeks, according to official reports. The Greek artillery silenced the Bulgarian guns, and the Greek infantry then pierced the Bulgarian lines at Daudli.
    The Bulgarian troops were eventually driven away from the plain of Kilkish.
    King Constantine and his staff moved their quarters to Kilkish this morning.
    It is reported that another great battle began to-day at Tukli, about five miles northwest of Kilkish.
    The Tenth Greek division has entered Guevgheli.

    BELGRADE, July 3.— Servian reports of the fighting on Tuesday between the Bulgarian and the Servian armies state that the Bulgarians abandoned several entire batteries of field guns, many rifles, and much ammunition.
    One thousand Bulgarian prisoners are said to have been taken by the Servians, who declare that the Bulgarians lost 800 dead and 1,800 wounded.

    SOFIA, July 3.— The authorities here absolutely deny all statements issued in Belgrade reporting successes on the part of the Servian troops.
    An official statement issued to-day says the Bulgarian troops repulsed the Servians and captured a number of villages on the banks of the Zlatnovska River in Macedonia. Afterward orders were given to the Bulgarians to cease fire, and they returned to their former positions.
    The Servians are said to have suffered heavy losses.
    King Ferdinand received Premier Daneff, M. Theodoroff, Minister of Finance, and all the party leaders in a prolonged audience this evening. The Government has sent an energetic note to Athens protesting against the treatment to which the Bulgarian troops have been subjected at Salonika and demanding the immediate liberation of the Bulgarian soldiers deported to Greece and the restoration of their arms. Bulgaria demands also that the condition which obtained a Salonika prior to the present rupture be restored, and that the Bulgarian garrison be reinstalled and the Bulgarian flag hoisted with due honors.