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i9i3] PEACE SIGNED IN LONDON 169
so persistently avoided all opportunities of conversing
with the Russian Minister. This time the King was
forced to comply, and against all expectations received
me with a great deal of friendliness. I told him of the
communication I had received from my august Master,
but I avoided anything that might have wounded his
pride; I availed myself also of this opportunity to
touch on the question of the relations between
Bulgarians and Serbians. On this Ferdinand complained
bitterly that the Serbians had already concluded a formal
agreement with the Greeks which was directed against
Bulgaria—which was to a certain extent true. In answer
to that, and without entering into an examination of the
Serbian and Greek claims, I revealed the fears I
entertained for Bulgaria herself occasioned by the tendencies
of some of her politicians, who persisted in an
irreconcilable line of conduct. I was alluding to certain
generals and to M. Danev. The King did not dispute
my point of view, but he did not acquiesce in it either.
At this time he could still see things from a wholesome
standpoint, and he dreaded a collision with his
neighbours ; but as ever he did not wish to commit himself
in a clear and precise manner.
The month of April and half the month of May,
during which an armistice had put an end to hostilities
between Turkey and the Allies, were spent over
conferences and difficulties. At last, on the 20th May, N.S.;
a definite peace was signed in London. In Europe the
Turks were only to keep the hinterland of the Straits
up to the line Enos—Midia. It then remained to divide
between the Allies the territory conquered by them.
As I have already said, the Bulgarians had no troops
in the southern and western part of Macedonia, excep t
three thousand men that they had succeeded in getting
into Salonika. This town and district, the peninsula of
Chalcidice and a few other places east of this peninsula,
were occupied by the Greeks; the rest of Macedonia,
as far as the course of the Bregalnitza, was in the hands
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