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194 BULGARIA ATTACKS HER ALLIES [cii. xii.
Rumanian forces, addressed to me and directly to St.
Petersburg an entreaty to stop military operations by
our all-powerful words, and conjointly with the other
Great Powers to elaborate the conditions of peace.
St. Petersburg recommended the two sides to take as a
basis for negotiations a frontier passing by the
Bregal-nitza, the Vardar, the range of Belachitza and the lower
course of the Struma—a frontier which would have
left to Bulgaria the towns of Kotchana, Petchovo,
Drama, and Kavala. At the same time we suggested
to the Prime Ministers of the Balkan States to assemble
at Nish and to begin peace negociations. The
Bulgarians promptly accepted our proposals, and through
me informed Belgrade that General Paprikov—former
Minister to St. Petersburg—was going to be sent to
Nish to enter into a parley about an immediate
armistice. Paprikov was to be accompanied by our military
agent, Colonel Romanowski.
The Serbian Government agreed to the coming of
General Paprikov and Colonel Romanowski; but when
they arrived, having submitted to all the formalities of
crossing the two fronts near Pirot, they found no
Serbian plenipotentiary in Nish, and in the meantime
I received a notice from Belgrade that the Serbians
could not begin any conversation with the Bulgarian
delegate without the participation of Greek and
Montenegrin Plenipotentiaries, who were expected shortly in
Uskub and not in Nish; I was informed that Greece
would be represented by M. Venizelos himself. All
this signified that the adversaries of the Bulgarians
wished directly to broach the peace negociations and
not parleyings about an armistice. This exchange
of telegrams between me and Belgrade took four
days, during which Paprikov and Romanowski were
kept waiting about in a hotel in Nish, the latter
surrounded by every care and attention, the former
under the strictest supervision. On the fifth day,
Paprikov, who had not got full power to arrange the
peace terms with the heads of the Serbian and Greek
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