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CHAPTER X
the balkan war, iqi2 (continued)
At the beginning of February, 1913, the situation was
as follows : the war between Turkey and the Balkan
Allies had begun again, and the peace conference had
suspended its sittings; but the ambassadors of the
Great Powers in London continued to confer on the
questions relative to the future peace and to the definite
distribution of the Balkan territories.
In reality at that period only Bulgaria and
Montenegro had any interest in the prolongation of the war.
The Bulgarians wished to take Adrianople, the
Montenegrins Scutari. The two other allies had already
gained the objects for which they had taken up arms.
Greece, with Crete restored to her, had laid hands on
all the islands of the Archipelago—except those taken
by the Italians in 1911—and was occupying Salonika,
Chalcidice, part of Southern Macedonia, and Epirus, the
capital of which, Janina, surrendered to the Greek Army
shortly after the resumption of hostilities. The Serbians
held all the rest of Macedonia and Northern Albania with
the ports of San Giovanni, Medua and Durazzo ; and
they knew perfectly well that the result of their efforts
and sacrifices did not depend on the prolongation of
the war and on Turkish demoralisation, but on Austrian
claims and chicanery. Already in December, 1912, when
the irreconcilable opposition of Austria, backed up by
Germany, to the establishment of the Serbians on the
shores of the Adriatic became apparent, Serbia began
to contemplate the possibility of an outlet on the ^Egean
Sea ; for that, it would be necessary to occupy the whole
of Western Macedonia, with Monastir, and to come to
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