The herald., 1897-05-13
ARMISTICE
PROPOSED
While the Powers Patch
Up Terms of Peace
GREECE ACCEPTS THE TERMS
TURKEY NOT EXPECTED TO
MAKE OBJECTION
GREECE ACCEPTS THE TERMS
Turkeys Demands for Indemnity and
Frontier Rectihcation Are Ac-
quiesced in by the Powers
Associated Press Special Wire.

quiesced In by the Powers
Associated Press Special Wire.
ONSTANTINOPLE, May 12-The
ambassadors Of the powers held pro-
longed conference today, at the close of
which they presented to the Turkish gov
ernment collective memorandum pro-
posing an armistice between Turkey and
for peace now in progress through the
powers.
The memorandum, which was present
ed to Ahmed Tewf1k Pasha, the Turkish
minister Of foreign affairs, by the dean
OF the diplomatic corps, Baron de Calico
the Austro- Hungarian ambassador, emu
merates the conditions which have been
| accepted by Greece and begs the porte
to issue the necessary orders to arrest
the progress of the Turkish troops.
A decree issued today by the council
of ministers orders battalion of gen.
darmes to Larissa and also appoints
the former Ottoman counsels at Volo
i|oA iGs1 anu ~ NC hdilHd nail
or administrators Of those districts, with
power to organize Turkish administra
tion in those parts of Greece. The Sui
tan will personally defray the cost of the
war medals which are to be presented
to the Turkish troops which have taken
part in the campaign against the Greeks.
The Turkish military commander at
Janina telegraphs that the Greek forces
in Epirus have fled to Arta, abandoning
5000 rifles, 800 cases of ammunition and
mountain gun. Seventy-nine Greeks
were killed in the recent fighting. The
fourth batch of wounded Turkish SOL
diers has arrived here.
THE POWERS AGREED
PARIS. May 12.-According to a dis
patch received here from Constntinople
today all the ambassadors of the powers
there have agreed upon the question of
mediation between Turkey and Greece
and few details as to it's form remain
to be settled
GREEK FEELING
ATHENS, May ~. p. m.-The Asty
approves of the decision of the govern
ment to accept mediation and urges
calmness and obedience on the part of
the press and the people.
The Acropolis asserts that the decision
of the powers should be respected and
discusses the chances of an honorab biz
peace.
The Kairi attacks Premier Ralli for
seeking peace, and other. newspapers
urge the government SO to organize for
defense that If peace is impossible it can
continue the war on the most favorable
conditions. 1t Is officially stated this af-
ternoon that German officers were on the
Turkish steamer which was captured
yesterday by the Greek warships off the
island of Tenedos.
1t is officially announced that the pow
ers have notified the Greek government
that the Greek troops may leave the
island Of Crete and that the admirals Of
the international fleet will release the
steamers which have been seized during
the blockade.
TURKEY WILL ACCEPT
LONDON, May 12-The Rome cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: I
ascertained at the italian foreign Office
that Turkey will certainly accede to the
request for an armistice and will place
herself in the hands of the powers. The
general conditions of indemnity and a
strategic rectification of the frontier,
upon which Turkey insists, have been
already acquiesced in by the powers It
is probable that the powers will lana
additional troops in Crete.
EUGENIE is EAGER
VIENNA. May 1.-THE Neue Freie
Presse says that the Empress Eugenie
;e 1a -
partist prince for the ruler of the island
of Crete under the autonomist regime
proposed by the powers.
ANXIOUS FOR ARMISTICE
PHARSALOS, May 12.-Edhem Pa
sha, Turkish Commander in Chief, has
established headquarters on hill oppo-
site Pharealos. Greek irregulars are
raiding parts of Thessaly and irregular
Greek bands have attempted to cut the
Turkish line of communication with Ell
assona. Important fighting is expected
here unless an armistice is Immediately
agreed upon at Constantinople.
THE TURKISH ADVANCE
NEW YORK, May ia dispatch to
the World from Domokos, dated yester-
day, says: The Turks are advancing.
a. thiS Hout Wv II. Iu.J the turkish
army can be seen from the Acropolis,
Domokos' highest point. The main body
is now only II miles distant Several re-
parties have observed it at
close quarters.
1t is rumored that the Turkish cavalry
have reached the bank of Lake Xenias,
in the Greek rear.
Domokos is impenetrable from the
front. The Turks must attack from the
flank. They will probably try to cut off
the Greek retreat in the vicinity of Lake
Xenias.
Skirmiehing may be expected tomor-
row, and battle the day after.
The Greek soldiers are almost without
food and seem to be eager to meet the
enemy The route of the Turkish ad-
vance is marked by the smoke of burn
ing villages.
GREEKS TAKE A PRIZE
ATHENS, May 12.-Advices received
today from the Island of Skiathos, off
the coast of the Volo Peninsula, say that
the Greek gunboat Venus and the Greek
torpedo boat No. IA. captured yester.