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CHAPTER IX
the balkan war, iq12
The 17th (30th) September, 1912, the Bulgarian
mobilisation was ordered simultaneously with the Serbian,
Greek, and Montenegrin mobilisations, and from the
first moment all the members of the Diplomatic Corps
in Sofia without exception understood that this
mobilisation meant a determined war with no turning back.
But such was not the opinion of the European
Governments. P^or several days warnings, prayers, and
threats were abundantly poured on Sofia, Belgrade,
etc., but they produced no effect whatever on those
to whom they were addressed. Finally, on the fourth
or fifth day, the representatives of the Powers in Sofia,
Belgrade, etc., received from their respective
Governments instructions to declare to the Government to
which they were accredited that the Powers were
determined to obtain from Turkey a regime of justice and
autonomy for all the people of a common origin of the
four Balkan States at present allied; but that if, on the
other hand, these States would not listen to the wise
advice offered them, and insisted on making war on
Turkey, the Powers, even in the event of victory by
the allies, would not permit any territorial change in
the Peninsula prejudicial to the Ottoman Empire. The
first part of this declaration was eminently sound, and
corresponded on all points with what I had suggested
and preached in June and July; but in October, and
after mobilisation had been ordered, the promises of
the Powers were arriving decidedly too late!
Having assembled at the house of our senior, we
decided to make the prescribed declaration the very
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