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i912] RUSSIAN CONCESSIONS 125
Russia, but on the contrary would have sought our
protection.
Inspired by these considerations I answered the
telegram of M. Sazonoff, who enjoined me to remind the
Bulgarians of our rule about the "prohibited area,"
by saying that I considered such a proceeding most
dangerous to our influence in Bulgaria and to our future
relations with the country. My arguments prevailed.
A few days later I received another telegram in which
I was told that Russia was rescinding her prohibition
on the subject of Adrianople, and was recognising
beforehand between Turkey and Bulgaria a frontier
going from Midia on the Black Sea to Enos on the
iEgean Sea; this frontier effectually gave full satisfaction
to the justifiable aspirations of the Bulgarians. I was
authorised to inform the Bulgarian Government of the
matter, and the good news was hurriedly made public.
" From this day forward there are no more Russophobes
in Bulgaria," I wired to Sazonoff. And in fact the
Russian name has never enjoyed so much prestige in
Bulgaria as it did from this moment until the untoward
events of the summer of 1913.
But the line of the future Turko-Bulgarian frontier
still had to be drawn more accurately. I considered
that it ought to ascend slightly from Midia to the
environs of Lule-Burgas, and curve again southwards
as far as Enos, so as not to go too near the Sea of
Marmara. But our military agent, who, under the
influence of Bulgarian victories, had arrived at a paroxysm of
Bulgarophile sentiments, thought we ought to consent to
the line which would follow the course of the Erghen,
and which the Bulgarian General Staff favoured. His
opinion prevailed in St. Petersburg, and our
Headquarters Staff, who but a month before were insisting on
the " prohibited area," were now giving their consent
to a line which only left a strip of land about forty
kilometers in depth for the "hinterland " of the Straits.
But Ferdinand’s ambition was not satisfied with this
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