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1912] THE CONFERENCE OF LONDON
afterwards the clauses of the Peace were discussed.
The Turks consented to give up the whole of Thrace to
the Bulgarians, as far as the line of Midia, Adrianople,
Dedeagatch. The forts of Adrianople were to be razed
to the ground, and the Turks even yielded to the
Bulgarians the railway line and station situated three or
four kilometers from the town. In this way Adrianople
would only be nominally in the power of the Turks.
Nevertheless, the Ottoman plenipotentiaries clung
tenaciously to this nominal possession, being well
aware of the bitter humiliation which would be felt in
the Mussulman world if the ancient capital of the
Osmalis in Europe with its celebrated mosque and the
tombs of the Sultans, ancestors of Mahomet II., were to
be handed over to the giaours.
The negotiations in London coincided with the
reawakening, on the part of the Central Empires, of the
desire to limit as much as possible any territorial
acquisitions of the Balkan Allies. The idea of an
autonomous Albania was suggested and, in support of
this idea, Austria began to bar the outlet to the
Adriatic to the Serbians, an outlet which they had just
conquered at the cost of enormous sacrifices. She also
vetoed beforehand the annexation by Montenegro of
the town of Scutari, still being besieged and around the
walls of which streams of the noblest Montenegrin
blood had been shed. In Rumania an agitation was
setting in on the subject of the " rectification of
frontiers " in Dobrudja, and even amongst the Allies
dangerous dissensions had begun and were
increasing day by day. I am not speaking of the
misunderstandings between Bulgarians and Greeks ; these had
broken out almost simultaneously with the war; the
question of Salonika was not yet settled and the
Bulgarian chauvinists upheld claims which enraged
the hearts of the Greek chauvinists. Even in Serbia
every one was agitating and laying down the principle
that the Serbians had a right to supplementary
compensations in Macedonia in exchange for what they
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