The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-03
Waiting Game is Being Played by
Turkey and the Balkan Allies
With Roumania Growing
SulIen.
MAY START FRESH WAR
Greece Does Not Know Just What to
do and Keeps Putting Off Agree
ment to End Balkan
Controversy.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The truce for
peace negotiations not agreed upon.
those interested in the war game to-
day were busy with speculation on tho
probable causes of the delay.
Greece, it was said, was playing
for time in the hope that Russia might
intercede In the disputes among the
allies over the proposed division OF
occupied territory.
Bulgaria was said to be not averse
to little delay. hoping that Adrian
ople might fall in the meantime and
thus give her an additional weapon
with which to force more advantage
eous peace terms
Turkey, too, was said to be pursu-
Ing Fabian policy in the hope that
some contingency might precipitate
some other power into the contro-
lversy, thus relieving Turkey of
share of her responsibilities.
From a new quarter today cams
news of preparation for war;
This is Roumania, which so far has
taken no part in the Balkan conflict.
The Roumanians, it was stated, are
working to obtain some advantage
! from the partition of European Turkey.
So far they have worked diplomatic
ally, but troops are being mobilized
and equipped to take the field and it
is asserted that if Roumania cannot
by diplomacy make Bulgaria recog-
dutze 9her claims to recognition in the
4 Turkish adjustment, she will try It by
I force of arms.
4 Today Or Tomorrow.
4 CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3.--The
4 Greek plenipotentiary commissioned
4 to act in the Balkan-Turkish peace
negotiations today was still without
instructions from Athens, and the pro-
posed protocol for fourteen day
larmistice was unsigned.
4 AS on the other two days that have
elapsed, since the initial day set for
: signing the agreement, it was given
out that the truce would be signed
today or tomorrow
: In official circles it was conceded
that the delay was ominious, as 1t was
taken to indicate that Greece was pre-
-sIparing to refuse the proposition that
Turkey be allowed to re-provision be-
leagured towns daily during the ces-
: sation OF war Greek officials in var
. ious European capitals, it was known,
: had fatty said that such an agree
ment would be to give up whatever
: advantage the allies had won, and 1t
/, was thought that the Greek govern
+ ment was seeking the most effective
a method in which to refuse the pro-
: POSED protocol
Chip on Shoulder.
d PARIS, Dec. 3.--It was apparent to-
e day that the jingo speech of Chancel.
s lor Won Bethmann-H Hollweg in the Ger
l. man reichstag brought no startling
d results Ii Russia construed the
Il chancellor's vehemence as warning,
v as all the diplomats and war experts
9 did, she gave no sign Of it.
+ Close analysis of the European sit
;. uatfon took Won Bethmann-Hollweg's
6 declaration to mean that Germany
4 might have a chip on her shoulder
!. but at the same time she was sure thai
4. no other nation had any desire tc
a knock 1t off.
n 1T was said here that the Balkan
o. peace negotiations would be conduct
ID ed on neutral territory. Budapest
Bucharest and also some point II
r. Switzerland being tentatively unde
d consideration by the envoys.
d. France Butts In.
rs PARIS, Dec 3--The French goy
ernment took the lead today in war;
e. ing the Balkan alliance that their pc
ty quarrels over peace negotiation
We must not become an open breach. N
n Raymond Poincaire, the foreign mil
lister, formally notified the Greek goV
eminent, through Athos Romanos, tn
Greek minister to France, that tn
!, pickering between Greece and Bulg;
:, ria must be settled.
;a, The Hidden Hand.
OF BERLIN, Dec. 3-It was intimate
We here today that the fine hand of Eur
a pean diplomacy mi-h. be behind til
40 disagreement of the Balkan allit
s. over the proposed protocol for armi