The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-11-14
INTERNATIONAL
DEADLOCK ON
Neither Austria Nor Servia
Ready to Yie.d.
GERMANY IS FOR PEACE
proposes European Conference, at
Which Balkan States viii Be Rep.
resented, as Soon as the Campaign
In the Field Is Concluded,

London. Nov, 13.-The deadlocs
continues in the international polit
lcal situation brought about by the
Balkan war. Neither Austria Hungary
nor Servia has given way on a single
essential point in regard to the future
OF Albania and the proposed occupa
t1on by the Servians of a portion OF
the Adriatic sea-
Despite this, and the further fact
that the Russian press is daily inten.
styling the warlike tone of it's support
Of the Servian cause, some of the Ell
ropean chancelleries take more op-
t1mistic view of the condition of af-
fairs, assuming that the recent con-
Terence between the Austrian and Ser
Wan statesmen at Budapest has
tended to relieve the crisis.
So far as is known, however, DR.. S.
Daneff, the president of the Bulgarian
chamber of deputies, simply informed
Emperor Francis Joseph and his min
listers of the position of the Balkan
had explained to him for the benefit
Of Servia and Bulgaria the policy Of
Austria-Hungary.
European Conference Proposed.
The great powers not directly inter.
ested in the outcome. but more par
ticularly Germany, are making strong
ohorts to reconcile the two antagon-
lists. and it is believed that Germany
has at least induced Austria Hungary
not to press her objections to Servia's
aims until the end of the campaign.
Germany has pointed out that the
whole question of the Balkans can
then be settled by European con-
ference in which the Balkan nations
will have voice.
When Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
the heir to le Austrian throne, meets
the German emperor shortly the plans
for this conference will be drawn up
n outline.
This view comedies with that of
Great Britain, as Premier Asquith ex-
planned In his speech on Saturday.
The authorities at Vienna take
pains to point out that the military
conferences being held at Budapest
are not incongruous with Austria's de-
sire for peace. They explain that
plans and precautionary measures
have been considered, but say they
will not be carried out unless Servia
should violate Austria's interests.
P'a~ Naval Demonstration.
TIE la; been some talk Of naval
dem-,' So t'ol on the Adriatic coast
when - 2:rvians reach there, but
the ca wing out of this depends on
the. course of events.
In the meantime it is said that the
European powers, at the request of
Turkey, are about to sound the Bal
kan allies with the object of arrang-
ing an armistice.
Bulgaria is not likely to accede to
IN armistice until the conclusion of
the battle along the lines of Tchatalja,
IN front of Constantinople, which now
IL being fought.
Around Adrianople the Bulgarians
are going through some of the hardest
fighting of the campaign. Dispatches
from the Bulgarian side state that the
Bulgarian troops suffered heavy losses
In the taking of the two Turkish forts
On Kartaltpe and Papaztepe, outside
OF the fortress of Adrianople When
ever they wavered their officers and
priests exhorted them to go forward
Ut any cost. The fort at Papaztepe
was taken only after heavy reserves
had been brought up, SO stubborn was
The Turkish stand sgaE.,