Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-27
All Able Bodied Men
Called to Their COIOrs
is Report.
TURKS LEAVING EUROPE
Red Cross Already Has Aided
100000 Refugees-PeaCe
Delegates Meet Tomorrow.

Berlin. Dec. 27.-Bulgaria is prepar-
ing to resume war, according to a dis
patch from Rustchuk, Bulgaria The
correspondent says the Bulgarian war
minister has called up recruits due to
have been enrolled only in 1914, ahd
has summoned all able bodied men up
to the age of so to their colors.
FOR PRINCE OF ALBANIA.
Paris, Dec. 27.-Prince Ahmed Fuad,
uncle of the khedive of Egypt, is pre-
pairing to enter Albania at the head of
10000 troops to proclaim himself
prince of Albania, according to a cor
respondent of Temps. The place of
the origin of the dispatch is not given.
The correspondent states Prince
Fuad intends to embark at the Alban-
ian port of Avlona or some neighbor-
ing point on the coast. Fuad, who is
OF Albanian descent, recently exchang-
ed visits with Count Won Berchthold,
Austro Hungarian foreign minister at
Vienna. He at that time was regard
ed as a serious candidate for the
throne of Albania.
Washington, Dec. 27.-Exodus of
Turks from Europe has virtually be-
gun, according to a letter received by
the American Red Cross. The lettef
says the Red Cross already has aided
/ more than 100000 Turkish refugees to
leave Europe and take up agriculture
in Asia minor. Families are loaded
into bullock carts with implements of
trade of the same design used before
the time of the apostles.
STANDING BY GUNS.
London, Dec. 27.-Both the Turks
and the Balkan allies are standing by
their guns on the peace terms. Both
/ declare that it is impossible to recede
/ from their positions
Nevertheless, those who think they
/ know what is going on behind the
+ scenes stiu believe the probabilities of
the conclusion of peace are greater
/ than OF the resumption of the conflict.
The exchange of cipher dispatches
between the administration at Con-
stantinople and Rechad Pasha contin-
ues, but the chief of the Turkish pleni-
potentaries declines to divulge the ma
tuTe of the reply he will present to
the allies Saturday when tee confer
ence reassembles al st. James palace.
It is understood this will be as al
ready outlined, with the additional
promise that Turkey will apply to the
European territories remaining to it
the reforms which Count Won Berch-
tholdt, the Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, proposed before the war.
CALLS ALLIES DEMANDS ABSURD.
while I cannot discuss the reply
of the Ottoman government" said
Rechad Pasha tonight, nothing pre-
vents me from saying that the terms
the allies have proposed. are simply
absurd They have produced this i'm
preston wherever heard, even outside
of Turkish circles. 1t was never known
that after the conclusion of an armis-
tee one belligerent party could ask
tie other to concede territories brave
ly defended and still resisting with
heroism.
why should we do this, especially
when the Bulgarians had three re.
verses at our hands just before the
armistsce, while the Greeks, who con
tinued to fight, were defeated both on
land around Janina and at sea of the
= Dardanelles?
Turkey was induced to accept ar
armistice only on the advice of the
powers. in order to avoid useless car
mage on both sides. The same human
itarian considerations led the Ottoman
government to ask for the revictual
ing of the besieged towns, and might
3 induce the government to yield Ger
tain conditions for the sake Of peace
But there is a limit, which the allies
have far surpassed"
SAY TURK STAND LAUGHABLE.
The allies, on the other hand, asser
that the armistice was arranged tC
/, give Turkey an opportunity of making
l peace terms without suffering further
: losses in the field, and they character