Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16

THE TURKISH FLEET ENGAGED
THE GREEK FLEET OFF THE u.s.
LAND OF LEMONS THIS MORN
ING. ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL
TELEGRAM FOR THE DARDA-
NELLES. THE GREEK FLEET WAS
COMPELLED TO WITHDRAW FROM
TIE sECTiON.
The first brief meeting OF the peace
plenipotentiaries who are trying to
scIve the Balkan problem was per-
meated with good will and desire to
achieve success. Today's discussions
were devoted solely TO questions Of
procedure. The Turkish delegates, it
is Understood, agreed to forego their
threatened opposition to Greek psrti'
cpation in the conference before the
Greeks had signed the armistce.
The question OF Adrianop,e is likely
to be the first real business of the
concIave and that will bring up the
most critical point, for unless Turkey
yields the fortress to Bulgaria, "war
will re-connmence." according to DR..
Danetf. head Of the Bulgarian delega.
ton.
London. Dec 1G.--The delegates of
Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro and
Greece assembled today in the pic
ture gallery of st. James palace to
meet the Turkish delegates in the
momentouS conference which is IT,
settle the question whether there is to
be peace or a continuance of the war
in the Balkans. The plenipotentiaries
were welcomed by Sir Edward Grey,
the British foreign minister His adj
dress was brief but full of sympathy
and good wishes for the success OF
the gathering.
His ma jesty, the king desires me
to~convey to you his welcome and to
express his best wishes for the sue
cess of your labors," said Sir Edward.
1T is my agreeable duty to welcome
you on behalf of his majesty's govern
ment and to say with what pleasure
your presence is regarded in this
country. His majesty. the king. being
anxious to facilitate your task in
every way, has placed these rooms in
st. James palace at your disposal. !
trust you will find them suitable and
at the same time assure you that his
majestys government will do all in
its power to promote your cOnven
ience'
The chief of each delegation cor
daily acknowledged the welcome and
a. fc h,-
ward Grey, who was unanimously
elected to the honorary presidency of
the conference. /
The British foreign secretary then
left the gallery and the plentipoten-
tiaries set about the task of arranging
the questions of the chairmanship, the
procedure, the language, etc, of the
conference.
The Turkish plenipotentiaries were
the first to arrive. They were follow
ed at brief intervals by the Servians,
Montenegrins and Bulgarans. All
these arrived in plebian taxicabs;
the Greeks alone rose to the level OF
a private automobile.
The negotiations sat for only an
hour and half and then adjourned
for lunch, which was served in a
room adjoining the conference cham
ber
The delegates of the Balkan states,
before entering the conference cham
Der, declared that within this week
either Turkey will find a way to sur
render Adrianople or the war will be
resumed (
They believe that Turkey will yield
unless she is impelled to resistance by !
Austrian and German support I
The principal conditions of peace
demanded by the allies comprise the
immediate surrender of the Turkish
fortresses of Scutari, Adrianople and
Janina, whose garrisons will be grant
ed full military honors: the evacua
ton of eastern Europe by Turkey as {
far east as Tchatalja to line to be {
delineated on the spot the cession
to Greece Of all Aegean islands, the
annexation of Crete to Greece and t
the payment by Turkey of war in {
demnity and of the expenses incurred
by the allies on account of the Turk I