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i io THE BALKAN WAR, 1912 [chap. ix.
were threatened with losing on the Adriatic; that
Bulgaria by laying a hand on the whole of Thrace had
received more than she expected to receive, and that in
return she ought to give up to Serbia a part of the
territory she had acquired by the treaty of February
29th, 1912. In short, one foresaw clearly and in the
immediate future a conflict of interests between the
Bulgarians on one side and the Serbians and the Greeks
on the other.
In view of this tangled situation I strongly advised
the Bulgarian ruling powers to moderate their demands
regarding the Turks, and to patch up a general peace
as quickly as possible. The Bulgarians could insist on
all their territorial claims in Thrace, but by allowing
the Turks free access to Adrianople, which would
represent an Ottoman enclave within the actual limits of
the town. At the moment the Turks would have been
glad to conclude peace on this condition. Gueshov
shared my opinion and acted on it, but without success. .
He was confronted by the opposition of Danev, of the’
.-military, and of the King himself, who was willing to’
give up Salonika, but who wished for the whole of ’
Thrace with its ancient capital and ardently coveted
Rodosto and Samothrace. At last the Turkish
plenipotentiaries in London wTere induced to resign themselves
and to yield. The Bulgarians received Adrianople and
the whole of Thrace up to the line Midia-Enos. But
alas! this diplomatic success was essentially ephemeral
and only existed on paper.
The intense humiliation undergone by Turkey at
the London Conference was the signal for a new
pro-nunciamento from Enver-Bey, for the assassination of
Nazim-Pasha, for the downfall of the Grand Vizier
Kiamil-Pasha, and for the annulment of the peace
conditions which the latter was already prepared to sign.
On the 21 st January (4th February), 1913, the London
Conference paused in its labours and the Balkan War
broke out afresh. I had then a very strong feeling that
this foreboded no good either to Bulgaria or to the Slav
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