Rumania To Join In Balkan Strife.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 5, 1913:
Will Mobilize Five Army Corps and Then Invade Bulgaria.
BULGARS ROUTED AT KILKISH
Greeks Report Capture of Sixty Field Guns — Bulgars Massacre Greek Villagers.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VIENNA, July 4.— Actual war of a sanguinary character is going on in Macedonia, but had not been formally declared up to this afternoon, and a declaration before to-morrow is not expected.
    King Charles of Rumania knows that it will follow the mobilization order, which he signed yesterday and which was issued to-day. The order relates to the whole of five army corps. Before taking the final step he asked the Governments of Bulgaria, Servia, and Greece whether they considered what was going on in Macedonia as war. The reply from all three quarters was affirmative, whereupon the order was published at Bucharest at noon to-day.
    The mobilization is likely to take some ten or fourteen days, and it is not improbable that before decisive blows are struck on the Macedonia battlefields the Rumanian columns will have crossed the Danube and occupied the Turtukai-Baltjik line, Bulgarian territory which Rumania originally claimed.

Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, July 4.— The Servian official news agency so far records only Servian victories, which are categorically denied by the Bulgarian official news agency. The actual truth is not yet ascertainable, as no war correspondents are allowed at the front.
    The Reichpost's Sofia correspondent, Lieut. Wagner, reports that the Bulgarians are carrying out a successful flanking movement on the right bank of the Vardar River, and that the Servian army is in danger of being hemmed in on three sides.

By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, July 4.— Reports are reaching London of terrible atrocities committed in the new Balkan war. The Bulgarians, it is said, have massacred every inhabitant of Nigrita and the surrounding district. The victims, numbering more than 150, were mostly Greeks.
    The Bulgarian officers are reported to have forced women to dance naked, with bells around their necks.

    LONDON, July 4.— Evidence that serious fighting is occurring in Macedonia is found in the arrival of large numbers of wounded and prisoners at the various Balkan capitals, but, owing to the silence at Sofia and the conflicting and probably biased stories from Servian and Greek sources, it is next to impossible to form any accurate idea of the progress of the combatants.
    There still has been no formal declaration of war, and. although it is reported that the Bulgarian Minister to Greece has been recalled, he has not yet departed from Athens.
    Premier Venizelos announced in the Greek Parliament to-day that the Greek forces had won a victory at Kilkish and captured sixty guns. This appears to have been secured by the amazing swiftness of the Greek advance from Salonika, which, according to various correspondents, took the Bulgarians completely by surprise.
    The Servians report a victorious advance to Kotchana, but the Servian invasion of Bulgaria has been repulsed, and Bulgaria, it is reported, is executing a turning movement which will nullify the Servian advance.
    Suspension of judgment regarding the operations, therefore, is advisable in the absence of independent accounts.
    The reported change in the Ministry at Sofia has not yet been confirmed, but is regarded as probable.
    The French Government has informally approached the other powers with the object of obtaining a declaration of non-intervention. The greatest anxiety prevails in financial circles at St. Petersburg, where the report was current to-day that the Emperor had threatened to break off diplomatic relations with the Balkan States unless hostilities ceased.
    The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Associated Press in a dispatch tonight says that this report is without foundation, but adds that Russian opinion favors strong measures to end what is regarded as a disgraceful state of affairs. The Russian newspapers suggest recourse to The Hague Tribunal.
    The Bucharest correspondent of The Daily Telegraph reports persistent street demonstrations against Bulgaria and Austria. He says that Rumania makes an absolute demand for the Turtukai-Baltjik line, and requires an answer from Bulgaria within 24 hours.
    A Vienna dispatch to The Telegraph, referring to Austria's efforts to reconcile Bulgaria and Rumania, says that Austria has offered mediation, which both sides seem disposed to accept.

    SALONIKA, July 4.— The battle of Kilkish, which has been in progress for several days, ended at 10 o'clock this morning in the complete rout of the Bulgarians. They evacuated the town in disorder, abandoning sixty field guns and quick-firers.
    Kilkish is now in flames. The Greeks continue their advance.
    The battle for the possession of Kilkish continued throughout Thursday. The Greek right wing drove the Bulgarians into the mountains beyond Likovan, while the centre made a vigorous frontal attack upon Kilkish, with which the Bulgars still retained contact. The fourteenth Bulgarian division, under command of Gen. Dimitrieff, was stationed here.
    Toward midnight the Bulgarians made a violent surprise attack in strong force, which the Greeks repelled. The fourth Greek division made an impetuous counter-attack and occupied the dominating height eastward of Kilkish.
    Firing ceased at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, but was resumed two hours later, when a violent Greek cannonade prepared the way for. a decisive assault. The big siege guns used at Janina were employed against the Kilkish batteries, while attacking parties made a flank movement.
    These operations proved successful, and Kilkish was occupied. Seventeen Bulgarian siege guns were captured. The Bulgarians fled in the direction of Demirhissar, fearing that their retreat might be cut off by the Greek right wing, which had advanced northward.
    The next battle is expected to take place in the defiles of Strymon, near Demirhissar.

    BELGRADE, July 4— The Servians, after sanguinary fighting, have seized the strong Bulgarian position at Rayrchana, which dominates the whole plain of Kotchana, according to a dispatch from Uskup.
    The position was defended by thirty-two Bulgarian battalions, with eighty guns and fortified entrenchments.
    The Servians are now masters of Kotchana and the principal means of communication. The Bulgarians are retreating precipitately.

    ATHENS, July 4.— Premier Venizelos read a message from Kins Constantine in the Chamber of Deputies to-night urging his people to a new struggle with their former ally. The message accuses Bulgaria of forgetting the obligations of the allies and seeking by fraud to appropriate to herself almost the whole fruits of a common victory.
    "In the face of this disgraceful conduct," continues the King's message, "it is the duty of the other allies to close their ranks in defence of equilibrium in the Balkans. The Greek people in solidarity with the Servian and Montenegrin peoples take up arms. The gallant army and fleet of Greece are asked to deliver their brothers, just freed from the Turkish yoke, from a new tyranny.
    "The Hellenic nation, relying upon the justice of her cause, will shrink from no sacrifice in this struggle, which is blessed by the Almighty."
    An attempt by D. G. Phallis, ex-Premier and one of the opposition leaders, to criticize the policy of Premier Venizelos, was drowned in thunders of cheers for the Premier.

    SOFIA, July 4.— It is officially announced that three Servian battalions which invaded the Bulgarian Kustendil district have been defeated and driven back north of Egri Palanka. Two hundred Servian officers and men were taken prisoners and several guns were captured.

    LONDON, Saturday, July 5.— A Vienna dispatch to The Daily Mail says it is officially announced that Bulgaria and Rumania have accepted Austrian tenders of mediation.
    A Vienna dispatch to a London news agency says that Sofia reports a serious battle between Kilkish and Likovan. The Bulgarians retired from their positions in order to mislead the Greeks, who eventually were defeated.

    BELGRADE, Saturday, July 5.— The Servians have captured Kotchana after a severe battle.
    It is reported that they annihilated the right, wing of the Bulgarian army, commanded by the War Minister, Gen. Kovatcheff, capturing important war trophies.