Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-17
BALKAN FEACE.
Continued from Page One.)

and the Turks will begin, tomorrow. y
climax will be reached when both sides
exchange their respective propositions for
the conclusion of peace. The terms OF
the allies are:
The principal conditions of peace de-
manded by the allies comprise the imme
date surrender of the Turkish fortresses
of Scutari Adrianople and Janina, to the
garrisons of which full military honors
will be granted; the evacuation of eastern
Europe by Turkey as fas as the Tcatalja
to line TO be delimited on the spot; the
cession to Greece of all the Aegean is
lands; the annexation of Crete to Greece
and the payment by Turkey of war in
demnity and of the expenses incurred by
the allies on account of the Turkish pris-
oners.
The allies in turn are prepared to grant
complete amnesty to the Mussulman pop
ulation in the territories they annex for
any acts of hostility during the war; the
return of all prisoners; the recognition
of the spiritual sovereignty of the Sui
tan over Ottomans becoming subjects OF
the Balkan states, and the free admins
tration by the Mussulmans of their pious
foundations in the Balkans.
To these conditions has now been added
the taking over by the Balkan states of
that part of the Ottoman public debt
corresponding to the territories when
they annex unless the powers controlling
the Ottoman debt allow them to deouct
that part from the war indemnity impos-
ed upon Turkey, which would thus re-
main the only debtor
The terms formulated by Turkey
have been kept secret, but it may be
asserted on good authority that they
include the remuneration by both
sides of any money transaction un-
der the form of indemnity or other
wise, except the taking over by the
Balkan states of portion of the OF
toman public debt proportionately to
the new territories they acquire. They
provide also that the Sultan shall
have representative in the terri
tories passing to the allies, where
ottoman courts shall be instituted for
mussulmen's justice. Adrianople, the
first Turkish capital in Europe and
surrounding territory shall remain IL
Turkey. The -rurno- Bulgarian from
tier south of Adrianople shall be
marked by the Martha river, while
the territory west of the Martha
goes to Bulgarian, which thus would
have the port of Kavalea, to which
she has long aspired. Furthermore,
Turkey will demand that Saloniki
| over the possession it is pointed out
serious Turco- Bulgarian antoginism
has arisen shall remain to Turkey,
and together with Monastr and Sou
tart and their respective districts shall
| form Ottoman territory surrounding
| Albania
Servia is to have Uskup, Pristina
Mitrovitza and part of the Sanjak
Novipaza, the remaining part. going
to Montenegro. To Bulgaria is con-
ceded the island of Thases but Tur-
key claims possession of the other
islands in the Aegean, including
Samothrace, Imbros, Lemnos and
| Mitylene. together with those now oc-
cupied by Italy, because the latter
belong to Asiatic Turkey. But the ad-
ministration at Constantinople pledges
itself to obtain from England, Sussia.
France and Italy. the four protective
powers over Crete, their consent that
this island shall be annexed to Greece
These terms will give the allies four
i fifths of the territory. which, a few
weeks ago, was European Turkey, but
notwithstanding what seems to be a
great concession, comparison of the
terms of the allies with those of Tur-
key is sufficient to show the immense
gulf separating them.
The idea of mediation has been pu
forward All the delegates, however, de
clare emphatically that they know moth
ing about mediation and that 1t is out
side their mission here, which is Limited
to the negotiation of peace without evei
!, the power of concluding it. For the con
. cluslon of peace either they or other