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1913] BULGARIAN SACRIFICES
would have left to Bulgaria the towns Kotchana,
Rado-vitch, Petchevo, Drama, and Kavala. But in Bukharest
we could not succeed in getting this line accepted. The
frontier between Bulgaria and Serbia crossed the line
of the watershed of the Vardar and of the Struma, so
that Kotchana and Radovitch returned to Serbia; and
the frontier between Bulgaria and Greece followed the
course of the Mesta, so that the towns of Demir-Hissar,
Seres, Drama, and Kavala returned to Greece. It is
true that on the subject of Kavala a reservation was
made, aiming at the possibility of a revision of that
clause in the treaty, and on this question Russian
diplomacy was on the Bulgarian side. But when
Austria-Hungary began to demand the revision of the
whole Bukharest treaty, Russia naturally would not
support such a proposal. At the same time, and in
consideration of the energetic intercession of France
in favour of the Greeks, we finally abandoned our
intention of soliciting the return of Kavala to the
Bulgarians.
Concerning the occupation of Thrace by the Turks,
our protests became rarer and feebler day by day, and
soon ceased completely. Bulgaria, who on her side had
persisted for ages in the point of view that the question
of Adrianople and of Thrace was a European one, and
who consequently sought the intervention of the Great
Powers to settle this question, ended by giving in on
this point and herself began negotiations with the Porte.
It was easy to realise by the choice of the Bulgarian
negotiators that King Ferdinand and his Ministers were
now only counting on the protection of Austria-Hungary
and that of Germany, become all-powerful again in
Constantinople. It was old M. Natchevitch, former
Stamboulovist, long since retired from politics, who
was persuaded to return to Constantinople, where he
had been diplomatic agent of Bulgaria for many years,
while M. Tontchev and General Savov—reinstated in
Ferdinand’s good graces—acted as special
plenipotentiaries to conclude the definite settlement with the Porte.
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