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i io THE BALKAN WAR, 1912 [chap. ix.
surround the Turkish camp, the commander of the
Greek troops informed the Bulgarians that he would
resort to force if they did not cease immediately to
molest their Turkish prisoners and if they did not
abandon the idea of entering the town. A little more
and they would have come to blows, but fortunately
the young Crown Prince Boris was in Todorov’s
detachment, and this constrained the Bulgarian general
to prudence, and the " Diadoch " Constantine, who had
been warned in time, to be a little more conciliatory.
The incident was at last settled. A Bulgarian brigade
was allowed to enter the town, and to garrison the
northern suburb, while the greater part of Salonika
remained in the power of the Greeks, who made their
headquarters there. The Turkish prisoners also were
left in Greek hands and sent to Greece. This beginning
augured no good. Throughout the duration of the war,
the Greeks and Bulgarians who occupied the southern
part of Macedonia were in a permanent state of feud.
Each side schemed to occupy more ground, and
shortly before the conclusion of peace a real collision
took place, which ended in bloodshed ; I will refer to
this further on.
The complete defeat of the Turkish Army at
Lule-Burgas opened to the Bulgarians the road as far as
Constantinople, or rather up to the strongly fortified
line of Chataldja, which encircles the town north of the
shores of the Black Sea as far as those of the Sea of
Marmara. The demoralisation of the Turkish troops
and the state of panic in Constantinople were such
that if at this moment the army of Radko-Dmitriev
had risked an immediate march on Chataldja it could
have taken the Turkish fortifications at one stroke.
Unfortunately for the Bulgarians they were short of
munitions, and had to halt for three or four days
awaiting them. But at this moment a circumstance occurred
which, although quite natural, had not entered into the
Bulgarians’ calculations; and Stambul was saved.
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