The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913: Second EditionSchurman, Jacob Gould
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The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913: Second Edition
Schurman, Jacob Gould
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- War of 1912-1913
The Treaty of London officially eliminated Turkey from the further
settlement of the Balkan question. Thanks to the good will of the
Great Powers toward herself or to their rising jealousy of Bulgaria she
was not stripped of her entire European possessions west of the
Chataldja lines where the victorious Bulgarians had planted their
standards. The Enos-Midia frontier not only guaranteed to her a
considerable portion of territory which the Bulgarians had occupied but
extended her coast line, from the point where the Chataldja lines
strike the Sea of Marmora, out through the Dardanelles and along the
Aegean littoral to the mouth of the Maritza River. To that extent the
Great Powers may be said to have re-established the {64} Turks once
more in Europe from which they had been practically driven by the
Balkan Allies, and especially the Bulgarians. All the rest of her
European possessions, however, Turkey was forced to surrender either in
trust to the Great Powers or absolutely to the Balkan Allies.
The great question now was how the Allies should divide among
themselves the spoils of war.
RIVAL AMBITIONS OF THE ALLIES
This was a difficult matter to adjust. Before the war began, as we
have already seen, a Treaty of Partition had been negotiated between
Bulgaria and Servia, but conditions had changed materially in the
interval and Servia now demanded a revision of the treaty and refused
to withdraw her troops from Central Macedonia, which the treaty had
marked for reversion to Bulgaria. In consequence the relations between
the governments and peoples of {65} Servia and Bulgaria were
dangerously strained. The Bulgarians denounced the Servians as
perfidious and faithless and the Servians responded by excoriating the
colossal greed and intolerance of the Bulgarians. The immemorial
mutual hatred of the two Slav nations was stirred to its lowest depths,
and it boiled and sputtered like a witches' cauldron.
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