The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-30
PEACE PROSPECTS
ARE THOUGHT TO
Be BRIGHTER
Obstacles Still Serious But
May Be Surmonted
THE TURKISH DEMANDS
Balkan States are Fretted by the
Attitude of Austria and Fear She
May Interfere.

London, Dec. 29.-Notwithstand
ing apparently insurmountable, dill
culties attending the successful issue
of the peace conference, the pros
poets tonight look brighter. more be-
cause of the changing atmosphere of
the conference than on account of
any new fact.
In the first place it is stated on
good authority that the Turkish dele
gates will present tomorrow modi
fed terms better calculated to afford
basis for negotiation, and. in the
second place. the allies appear more
anxious to come to real business II it
is at all possible They have occu-
pied the weekend in exchanging long
cipher kilograms with their respec-
tive governments in order TO be full
ly informed on all points and in com
plete agreement They seem TO be
nervousyl apprehensive that they
will be deprived of the fruits OF their
victories by European Intervention.
One of the delegates said tonight
1T is difficult TO say whether our
struggle will be harder against Mus
sulman oppression or against Euro
pean Intervention, which already sew
eral times has prevented us from
| shaking OFF the Ottoman yoke. AL
though our armies have victoriously
reached Tchatalja, Europe miLhl
wish to return Adrianople to the
Moslems, forgetting or ignoring
what that would mean to the Christ
| ian population But we know the
value of the so-called European guar
antees for Turkish reforms and this
time we will not give in. If Official
Europe likes horrors it shall have
them. We will fight to the bitter
end. An eye for an eye and a tooth
for tooth"
The Balkan delegates fear that
| Austrias attitude is encouraging the
| Turks to resist. If reports from
Vienna are true. Austria still per
sists in the enlargement of the from
tiers of autonomous Albania TO such
an extent that it will absorb the ter.
and Montenegro, and as Montenegro
treats the proposition of the ex-
change of Scutari for Mount Lowe
hen as "a Matchmaking proposition, "
the difficulties raised by Austria's at
titude have rather increased than d.
minished.
According 10 the Vienna Neue
Freie Presse a conflict exists be-
tween the dreibund and the triple en-
tente with regard to Albania. The
former favors large and powerful
Albania while the powers of the en-
tente urge a greatly restricted Alban-
ia.
The Turkish county demands pre-
scented Saturday are:
First-The province OF Adrianople
to remain under the direct admins
tration of Turkey.
Second-Macedonia to be convert
ed into a principality with Saloniki
as its capital. The principality to be
under the suzerainty of the Sultan of
Turkey but governed by "A prince
chosen by the Balkan allies and NOM
mated by the Sultan of Turkey. This
prince to be Protestant and from
neutral state.
Third-Albania to be autonomous
under the sovereignty of the Sultan
and governed by a prince of the I'M
perial Ottoman family, who is to DE
chosen for a term of five years with
the FEASIBILITY of renewal of his ap-
pointment
Fourth-All the islands in the
Aegean Sea to remain Turkish.
Fifth-The Cretan question not to
be one for the decision of the confer
ence as it is a matter between Tur.
key and the Great European powers.