Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . THE BALKAN WARS OF 1912 AND 1913 313 war party had lost all sense of proportion, all sense ofthe rights of her former allies, that began the newstruggle. She treacherously attacked Greece and Ser-bia at the end of June, 1913. Fierce fighting ensuedfor several days. Bulgarias action in plunging into this avoidableconflict was all the more foolhardy as her relationswith her northern neighbor, Roumania, were also un-settled and precarious. Roumania had demanded thatBulgaria cede her a strip of territory in the northeastof Bulgaria, in order that the balance of p
Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919 . THE BALKAN WARS OF 1912 AND 1913 313 war party had lost all sense of proportion, all sense ofthe rights of her former allies, that began the newstruggle. She treacherously attacked Greece and Ser-bia at the end of June, 1913. Fierce fighting ensuedfor several days. Bulgarias action in plunging into this avoidableconflict was all the more foolhardy as her relationswith her northern neighbor, Roumania, were also un-settled and precarious. Roumania had demanded thatBulgaria cede her a strip of territory in the northeastof Bulgaria, in order that the balance of power amongthe Balkan states might remain practically what ithad been. Biflgaria had refused this so-called com-pensation. The result was that Roumania also wentto war with Bulgaria. The Turks, too, seeing achance to recover some of the land they had recentlylost, joined in the war. Thus Bulgaria was confronted on all sides by ene-mies. She was at war with five states, not three, forMontenegro was also involved. By the middle ofJul
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