The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Description of Terms Which Will Be Offered
 Turkey
TURKISH DELAY WILL
 NOT BE TOLERATED
Greece Gets All the Aegean Islands. Ottomans Must Evacuate Eastern Turkey as Far as the East
 Tchatalja Line

 of the Balkan kingdoms and the fore most Turkish delegates an authoritative description of the terms which the vic torious kingdoms propose to enforce and the Ottoman views thereon.
 Like experienced diplomatists all the Balkan delegates, in speaking officially. adhere to the watchword adopted in the first, and probably the last plenary meet ing before entering the conference, that they are fin complete accord and have . perfectly united programme to fol- low
 When they speak with friends, not for quotation, their faces light up with their enthusiasm, and their faith is ad- mirable.
 "Tell the Americans" they say, that we trust in their sympathy and moral support, as we are fighting desperately and shedding our best blood for the same cause which rendered the name of Washington glorious and venerated. We are risking all we possess for our liberty and independence.'
 Message to America
 "Tell them," added, in perfect English, NJ. vesnitch. the Servian minister at Paris, who is a polyglot, and a learned professor, that some of the sons of the Balkans who became American citizens are in the ranks at the front giving proof of valor and bravery, of which Uncle Sam should be as proud as we are"
 The determination of the Balkan states not to allow an Ottoman policy of pro- crastination is significant on account of the form which it has manifested.
 ,'rhe Turks are much mistaken" said one of the chief delegates, If they en- certain such an idea. Peace will prac- tically be concluded between Christmas and New Years around the diplomatic table in St. James palace. or We Will impose it in Constantinople at Easter under tho range of our cannon, and at the point of our. bayonets. But then conditions will be very different. Now we are satisfied with the minimum de- mands; then wo will exact the inaxi- mum"
 The main conditions of the allies include the immediate surrender of Scutari, Adri- snople and Janina, the garrisons of which will be granted full military honors, the evacuation of eastern Europe by Turkey as far as East Tchatalja to line which experts appointed by the contracting par ties will delimit on the spot; the cession to Greece of all the Aegean islands, n- cluding Rhodes and eleven others which Italy Is keeping as a pledge for Turkish fulfillment of the treaty of Lausanne; the annexation of Crete to Greece and the payment of war indemnity and the ex- penses sustained.
 In return the allies will grant complete amnesty to the Mussulman population in the territories they annex, for any acts of hostility during the war; the return of all prisoners, the recognition of the spirit ual sovereignty of the Sultan over Otto- mans becoming subjects of the Balkan States and the free administration by the Mussulmans of their pious funds in the Balkans
 Confident of Settlement
 The Servian ex-premier, Stojan Nova koyitch, head of the Servian plenipoten- tiaries, informed the Associated Press that he was satisfied an agreement would be reached on the question of an Adratic port. on which Servia and Austria are at swords points.
 Rechad Pasha, the most distinguished Ottoman delegate who has resided so long abroad that he is a type of the intelligent cosmopolitan, expressed the hope that the assistance of the powers on the one side and rroderation on the part of the allies on the other, would result in a so- lution, which if not satisfactory to Fur key, would safeguard her dignity. He feared that the apparent harmony of the allies will last only while the common enemy is before them, but that the mo- Inent they are left to themselves they will be plunged into anarchy over the di- vision of the spells. rendering intervention by the powers inevitable.
 He said he would have to raise the question at the first meeting of the fail ure of Greece to join the armistice.
 Is it possible" he asked, Ito treat fo, peace while war is in progress? Some understanding would be reached which might be annulled by the progress of the military operations. What would be the use of discussion about Janina if while the discussion is going on it would be forced to capitulate? Or about Salonik if it were recaptured by the Turks?
 ''The conditions put forward by the Creeks to adhere to the armistice were absurd, as among other things they asked for the surrender of Janina and the continuation of tine blockade. If the other states follow the same idea we would have been asked to surrender Adrianople and Scutari also, and ad- hitting that we were such idiots as to accept terms of this kind there would be no need of a meeting here to discuss the conditions of peace, nor would it be pOSslDle TOT US 10 cOntlnue the war
 Turkey Can Still Fight
 s'If they make it impossible for us 10 conclude an honorable peace they will soon find that the Mussulman lion although wounded, has not lost it's strength
 The Greek delegation, interrogated on the question: of the armistice. an swered that peace between Italy and Turkey went through several months of negotiations and was finally con cluded without any previous armistice
 To this, Rechal Pasha retorted that the situation with respect to Italy was uuite different because the negotia- tions were unofficial and the continua- ton of the war could never affect the positions of the two belligerents. as II may in the case of Turkey and Greece
 In diplomatic circies it is believes that after some skirmishing on Uni. question a middle course may be found on the lines that Greece, although not adhering to the armistice, will prom ise to suspend war operations during the conference. and that Turkey shai do the same.
 The outlook with respect to the con ference of ambassadors tonight is op- ~----~--~---
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