The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-09
ATHENS AGAIN IN ALARM.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN DANGER
OF COLLAPsING.

Many Good Judges at Athens Believe
the Nation May Vet Have to Fight
For Its EXistence.-Turl<s Reported
TO Have Occupied several Villages
In the Agrapha District in Viola
tiOn of the ArmistIcc.
London. June 9. a. m.--The peace nego-
tiations do not seem to make much pro-
gress, and there was considerable dis
quietude in Athens last evening, caused
by the apparently reliable statement that
the negotiations were in danger of coll
lapsing altogether. The ministers, who
were questioned on the subject, however,
had no definite news of an official char
acter, and expressed the opinion that the
report was without foundation.
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 afterward settle details by
direct negotiations. This news is regard
ed at Athens with dismay, as breach OF
faith on the part of the powers, and as
leaving Greece to the tender merces of
the sultan. 1t Is believed by many good
judges at Athens that Greece may yet
have to fight for her very existence. AL
ready there are reports that the Turks
have advanced TN the Agrapha district,
occupied several villages and are still ad-
vancng toward the town of Agrapha.
Greece has protested to the powers
against this violation of the armistice, and
Col. Tosamodas, minister of war, has
gone to Lamia
Premier Rail- who has conveyed the
Al. -
New York city for five cannons, said:
THE government docs not forget the arm
istice is not peace and that It is It's duty
to be prepared for every eventually"
The Greek newspapers all publish the
statement by Gen. Miles that the positions
at Thermopylae are impregnable.
Advices from Constantinople are equally
pessimistic. 1t Is alleged that Tewfk
Pasha, at Saturdays meeting Of the coun-
ell of ministers announced that Sheik-ul-
Islam had issued fetva, declaring that
territory once acquired by the sacrifice of
Ottoman blood car not, under the Otto
man law, be surrendered.
London, June S.-A dispatch to the
Times, from it's Constantinople corre-
spondent, 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 annex
alton of Thessaly, the abolition of the
capitulation In the case of Greek sub
jects in the Ottoman empire, or an eX-
orbitant indemnity.
London, June S.--A dispatch to the Daily
Chronicle from Constantinople, says: ut
is rumored that stormy scenes have taken
place during the sessions Of the peace com
ference, and that German obstruction has
provoked lively Indignation among a ma
jority of the ambassadors"
Paris, June 8-The Temps publishes a
dispatch from ConstanUnople saying that
the report of the representatives of the
British, Russian and Italian ambassadors,
who are going to Thessaly, is intended to
serve as basis upon which to determine
the amount OF indemnity which Greece
will have to pay Turkey as result of the
recent war between those two countries
New York. June S.-Moustapha Tahsln
Bey, the minister of Turkey, who is at
present in this city, made the following
statement to-day: "The Turkish minis
ter at Washington Is authorized by his
government to deny categorcally the
news given by a cable from Athens an
nouncing that the Turks have committed
serious eXcesses in T1pirus, violating wo-
men, defiling churches, etc. The story Is
absolutely false, and is pure and simple