BUCHAREST, TREATY OF

drawn up in Bucharest, Rumania, signed August 10 (1913), by representatives of | all the Balkan states and Rumania. It brought the Second Balkan War to a elose, in which Bulgaria had been opposed by Greece, Serbia and Rumania in combination. The war was brought about by the fact that there came a dispute over the division of the territories conquered by Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Monte negro from Turkey during the First Balkan War. Serbia was to have had an outlet on the Adriatic blocked this arrangement, refusing to allow Serbian expansion in this direc- “ion. Serbia therefore demanded more territory in the direction of Bulgaria. Open hostilities broke out be ore the dispute could be settled by arbitration. Greece and Serbia succeeded in driving back the Bulgarian forces, which were further handicapped by the fact that Rumania took advantage of the situation by invading Bulgaria from acro the Danube, taking territory with a population of 270,000. At the conference in Bucharest which drew up the treaty, Bulgaria protested strongly against the terms offered, but finally signed the Treaty. By its terms Rumania retained the territory she had invaded, Greece - obtained the greater part of lower Macedonia, and Serbia what was left of the common spoils of the First Balkan War, Bulgaria, though having done most of the fighting against the Turks, emerging with very little more than she had yep in the beginning. The treaty ad evil effects in that an intense resentment was stirred up among the Bulgarian ' people over the fact that the territories taken by the other three states had large consequence of which King Ferdinand found it po ible to swing the country over to the side of Germany after the outbreak of the World War, and so bring-| ing about the defeat of the Serbians in| their resistance of the Austro-German invasion, a defense which might not have been broken had not the Bulgarians) attacked their flank.