The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-17
TURKEY WILLING TO SURRENDER FoUR-FlFTHs OF HER EU
 RoPEAN POSSESSIONS.
BALKON ALLIES WANT MORE
Gulf Separating Warning Nations Makes Final Settlement Look Far Off.-Servia Will Get
 Her Coveted Seaport.

the peace conference were completed today and apparently the Greek diff cultys regarding the singning of the armistice has been surmounted Ey- erything is ready for actual negotia- tions to begin tomorrow.
 So wide is the divergence between the respective claims of the Balkan allies and Turkey that there is )lttle prospect of an ea.v termination of | the conference.
 It is reported thr rgugh Berlin to- night that the Servian ministers in council decided, in difference to Rus sian and French advice. to yeid the port of Durazzo on the Adriatit and that the Seryian premier, NJ. Pachiten, is coming to London in ccr- lnection with this determinations This report has not been confirmed but tleTe are indications of relaxation in the Austro- -Seryian difficulties The Austrian emperor is credited with re- marking that he was hopeful of the ability of Austria to carry out her Balkan program in it's entirety with out resort to force.
 The Procbaska affair also appears to have been greatly misrepreseated and no longer affords ground for dis sension
 The first engagement between the Greek and Turkish fleets occurred to- day but so far as is known without serious damage to either side.
 Pezbe Delegates Meet. Dtata ft,fNf Nf.,s,f ffe... Ifangement Of peace between Turkey and the Balkan states met today in St James palace. They adjourned early in the afternoon without hay ing entered into discussion of the peace question.
 The days feature was the address of welcome delivered by Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary of foreign affairs who was elected honorary sponse of the heads of the various president of the conference. The ldelegations indicated desire to ac- complish the purpose of the confer ence.
 All the delegates applauded Sir ,, Edwards speech which like his state ment in the house of commons Wed
 
 The first encounter between the allies and the Turks will come ta- morrow A climax will be reached when both sides exchange tneir re- spective propositions for the conclu- sion of peace.
 he terms formulated by Turkey have been kept secret, but it may De asserted on good authority that they include the renunciation by both sides of any money transaction un- der the form of indemnity or other wise except the taking over by inc Balkan states of a portion of the Otto man public debt Droportionatey tc the new territries they acquire. They provide also that the Sultan snail have a representative in the territories passing to the allies. where ottoman courts shall be instituted for Mussulman subjects.
 Adrlislople, the first Turkish capual III hurope and surrounding territory shall remain to Turkey.
 The Turko- Bulgarian frontier soutt Of Adrianopie shall be marked by the Marltza river, while the territory wes, sof Maritza as far as the Stuma river would give the port of havala tc would have t14he port of Kayala to which she long has aspired. Furthermore, Turkey will demann
 hat Saloniki, over the possession ot which t Is ponted out serious Greeco Bulgallan antagonism has arisen shall remain to Turkey, and. togethe, 1 with Mlonastir and Scutari and tbei, respective districts, siiaii form t,ito. man territory surrounding Albania
 Seryia is to have Uskup pristina MitroViza and part of the Saniek ot NoEl2azaE the remaining part goine to Montenegro.
 10 Bulgaria is conceded she island oI lAasos, but Turkey claims DOS sesslcsl of the other islands in tht aegean sea, including Samathract imbros, Lemnos and Mitylene, togeth lef With those now occupied by Italv because the later belong to Asian, | Tarkey. But the administration a lConstantinople pledges itself to oh
 tam from England. Russia. s'ranr, ana Italy, the four protective power, 1 l Crete, their consent that this is. ianu saall be annexed to Greece These terms would give the allie, iouf-hfths of the territory which rev weeks ago was European Turkey pui notwithstanding what seems to b, great concession, comparison e the terms of the allies with those O
 Turkey Is suffcent to show the i'm mense gulf separating them.
 Even admitting many concession are made on both sides, an ultimat understanding appears extremely di