Powers At Odds Over The Balkans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 12, 1913:
Austria Angry with the Kaiser and France Has Given Offense to Russia.
VIENNA IS VERY UNEASY
Germany and France Want the Bucharest Treaty to Stand; Other Powers Want It Revised.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 12.— The Daily Chronicle's Vienna correspondent wires, under yesterday's date:
    "A dark cloud has been hanging for some time over the Triple Alliance, and anxiety is shown in well-informed quarters about the development of the dissensions that have arisen between Austria and Germany and, to some extent, Italy.
    "The origin of these differences is characterized by an utterance of the German Emperor, who is alleged to have said: 'I don't like Austria to rattle with my sword.'
    "Whether this is true or not, the fact is that the recent course of Austria's policy, particularly her campaign for a revision of the Bucharest Treaty, was taken without agreement with Germany, and even with German disapproval.
    "The Kaiser's congratulatory telegram to King Charles, his decoration of Premier Majoresco, and his making King Constantine a Field Marshal in the German Army were visible expressions of the new direction in which German policy is going in Balkan questions.
    "All this is causing great uneasiness in Vienna. Count Berchtold's policy finds little appreciation in Berlin, and his position has become precarious."
    Both Austria and Russia are anxious that Bulgaria shall not be unduly weakened by her victorious enemies, and it is announced that they have reserved the right to revise the peace treaty.
    Germany and France are opposed to any revision and want the peace now concluded to be made final.
    Germany's attitude is plainly indicated by King Charles's telegram to the Kaiser: "Thanks to you, it remains a definite peace." The Viennese press denounces hotly the Kaiser's interference.
    Russia, on her side, finds fault with France for taking her stand with Germany against revision. The Novoe Vremya says France, in pursuit of chimeras, is sacrificing her alliance with Russia.
    The dissensions among the great powers are all to the advantage of Turkey, who declares that she will not evacuate Adrianople, despite statements in various quarters that the Concert of Europe will make the Treaty of London respected.

    SOFIA, Aug. 11.— King Ferdinand today issued a pathetic address to his army.
    The King thanks his soldiers for the bravery and devotion they displayed in the war against "the treacherous allies," and declared that their efforts would have been crowned with success, "had not a series of unforeseen political circumstances paralyzed our strength."
    "Pressed on all sides," the address continues, "we were obliged to sign the Treaty of Bucharest, our country not being in a condition to struggle against five neighbors. Exhausted and tired, but not conquered, we had to furl our glorious standards until better days. * * *
    "Tell your children and your grandchildren about the gallantry of the Bulgarian soldiers, and prepare them to complete one day the glorious work you began."

    COLOGNE, Aug. 11— The Berlin correspondent of The Cologne Gazette says that the telegrams exchanged on Saturday between Emperor William and King Charles of Rumania, felicitating each other on the signature of the Balkan peace treaty, plainly indicated Germany's position toward the Bucharest compact.
    There is no necessity, the correspondent adds, for Germany to participate in any effort to force an alteration of the treaty, which also is true with regard to the other European powers, and this means that any European campaign against the treaty is out of the question.