On Thursday, at Constantinople, articles of agreement as to the
new Thracian frontier were signed by the representatives of Turkey and Bulgaria. The frontier follows the Maritza from its mouth to Mandra, and then continues north so as to leave Ortakeui on the Bulgarian side. Thence the line goes to Lefke, leaving Mustapha Pasha on the Bulgarian side. It afterwards runs through Kaibilar to Sveti Stefan on the Black Sea. Sveti Stefan is twenty-five miles north of Midia, where the Bulgarian frontier was placed by the Treaty of London. The solution may be summarized in terms of the more important towns by saying that Turkey retains Adrian- ople, Dimotika, and Kirk Kilisse, while Bulgaria gets Ortakeui, Mustapha Pasha, and Tirnovo. Bulgaria's outlet to the Egean is at the open roadstead of Dedeagatch. Bulgaria has, indeed, paid a high price for her follies. Peace once more reigns everywhere in the Balkans, after some of the most amazing vicissitudes in history, almost exactly a year after Bulgaria took up arms. It reigns with the authority of treaties which, we trust, may be observed for a long time to come, but we cannot shut our eyes to the bitterness which the wars leave behind. For many years every Balkan State, except Roumania, will be too exhausted to fight. A new generation of Bulgarians, however, will be only too likely to satisfy the unquenched thirst of the nation.
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