Sunday, August 11, 2013

Allies Sign Peace; Turkey Obstinate.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 11, 1913:
Rumanians to Evacuate Bulgaria in Fifteen Days, Allies in Three.
PROVIDES FOR ARBITRATION
Frontier Disputes May Be Referred to Belgium, Holland, or Switzerland.
    BUCHAREST, Aug. 10. — The Balkan peace treaty was signed at 10:30 o'clock this morning. In honor of the occasion the city was decorated with flags, guns were fired, bells were rung, and the bands played.
    A solemn Te Deum in the cathedral at noon was attended by King Charles, Queen Elisabeth, (Carmen Sylva,) and other members of the royal family and the delegates to the peace conference. King Charles conferred high decorations upon all the delegates, except the Bulgarians, who declined to receive them.
    The peace treaty provides that the Rumanian Army shall evacuate Bulgarian territory in fifteen days after its signature and the Servian and Greek Armies in three days. It also provides for arbitration by Belgium, Holland, or Switzerland in the event of a disagreement over the delimitation of the new frontier. Bulgaria engages in the treaty to begin demobilization immediately.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 10.— The Porte to-day made an evasive reply to the recent note of the powers, in which a threat was made that the latter would withdraw their moral and financial support from Turkey unless the Ottoman Government ordered its troops to retire within the Enos-Midia line, in accordance with the treaty of London.

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