The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-09
Emba ssadOrs of the Powers Are Max
ing Little Roadway i'm Their Ne
gOtiatiOns with the sultan.
GREEKS GROWING ALARMED
FEARS EXPRESSED THEY MAY YET
HAVE TO FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE.
Turks Reported to Be Violating the
Armistice-BraziIi Fanatics De-
feated in Battle.

LONDON, June 9.-The peace negotiations
do not seem to make much progress and
there was considerable disquetude in Ath-
ems last evening, caused by the apparent
ly reliable statement that the negotiations
were in danger of collapsing altogether.
The ministers who were questioned on the
subject, however, had no definite news of
an official character and expressed the
opinion that the report was without founda-
ton. 1t is said on good authority that
the powers are now trying to induce Turkey
to sign general peace conditions defining
broad limits within which Turkey and
Greece should afterwards settle details by
direct negotiations. This news is regarded
at Athens with dismay, as breach of faith
on the part of the powers and as leaving
Greece to the tender mercies of the Sultan.
It is believed by many good judges at Ath-
ems that Greece may yet have to fight for
her very existence. Already there are re-
ports that the Turks have advanced in the
Agrapha district, occupied several villages
and are still advancing towards the town
of Agrapha Greece has protested to the
powers against this violation of the armis-
tice, and Colonel Tosamados, the minister
of war, has gone to Lamia.
Premier Ralli, who has conveyed the
thanks of the government to the Greeks
of New York city for five cannons said:
THE government does not forget the
armistice is not peace and that it is its
duty to be prepared for every eventuality."
The Greek newspapers all publish the
statement by General Miles that the posi-
tions at Thermopolae are mpregnable.
Advices from Constantinople are equally
pessimistic. 1t is alleged that Tewfk Pasha
Of
ministers, announced that the Shiek- Ul-Is-
lam had issued a proclamation declaring
that territory once acquired by the sacrifice
of Ottoman blood cannot, under the Otto
man law. be surrendered. If this be true
it will require good deal of persuasion to
induce the Sultan to retire from Thessaly.
In addition to this report comes the rumor
that Bulgaria has made an informal de-
mand that Macedonia, with the exception
Of the province of Adrianople shall be
formed into an autonomous administration.
A dispatch to the Times from its Con-
stantinople correspondent says that the
powers. to whom Greece has intrusted her
interests, show no signs of yielding any of
the three points in the Turkish demand,
the annexation of Thessaly, the abolition of
the capitulatious in the case of Greek SUBJ
jects in the Ottoman empire, or an exor-
bitant indemnity
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from
CCnStantinople says 1T is rumored that
stormy scenes have taken place during the
sessions of the peace conference, and that
German obstruction has provoked lively in
Gignation among majority Of the embas
sailors.
The British, Russian and Italian embas-
sailors at Constantinople are sending rep
resentatives to Thessaly with instructions
to report upon the situation there. The
third meeting between the Turkish minister
for foreign affairs, Tewfik Pasha, and the
ambassadors of the powers to arrange
permanent basis for peace between Turkey
and Greece, took place to-day.
ha If ri q
from Constantinople saying that the report
of the representatives of the British. Rus
sian and Italian ambassadors who are go
ing to Thessaly is intended to serve as
basis upon which to determine the amount
of indemnity which Greece will have TO pay
Turkey a result of the recent war be-
tween those two countries.