Arizona republican., 1912-12-18
Sultan's Representatives Not Empowered to Confer With Greeks While Pres ent Hostilities Are Being Continued
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United States May Play Important Part by Being Called Into the Breach to Act as Mediator to Ar range Settlement
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LONDON, Dec. 1.-The peace con- ference was launched yesterday only to be interrupted today by the com plication resulting from the policy of Greece in waging was and nego- tiating peace simultaneously. The Turkish delegation announced today that it was empowered to confer only with the three Balkan kingdoms that signed the armistice at Tchatalja and as a consequence an adjournment was taken until Thursday to enable the Turks to obtain instructions.
 All the conferees expressed the be- lief that the suspension is merely temporary, and that a pathway to- ward the resumption of meetings will be found The prospects of a sue cessful issue of the conference are enhanced by the declaration that the Turks have been given plenary pow CTS to arrange and sign d treaty of peace How far the improved mili tary position, with the encourage ment that Austria is credited with giving them. may stiffen their backs against the allies terms, remains i'll doubt The first sitting of the ann bassadorial court of appeals was held at the foreign office today. The am bassadcrs of the five continental pow CTS conferred with Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary of foreign af fairs, for more than three hours. The different nations advance their views of the eastern problem. The con tingency that mediation may offer the only solution of the war has been the subject of much discussion. The heads of the Bulgarian. and Servian deiegations, in interviews, recognized that the United States might be in a position to act as peacemaker.
 The naval fight off the Dardanelles in which both Greece and Turkey claimed a victory yesterday was re- sumed today Athens announces that the Greek arm is about to capture Janina The friction between Austria and Servia appears not to be abated. The Servians complain that Austrian gunboats on the Danube in trying provocative tactics, are throwing their searchlights on Belgrade, which has caused a panic among the resi- dents.
 If the Turko-B Balkan understanding is not satisfactory to the powers, the present ambassadorial conference will indicate how to correct the decisions arrived at, just as the Berlin con- greSs in 1878 modified the boundaries the Balkans arranged five months before the treaty of San Stefano, between Russia and Turkey was sign ed At the meeting today, the great est attention centered around Count Mensdorff, the AustrO- Hungarian am- bassador and Count Beckendorff, the Russian ambassador. The colleagues jokingly put to the former whether he was brought from Vienna by peace or war Count MensdOrff answered with a smile, without losing his ha- bitual gravity: Peace, peace. add ing in Latin: "Sicut in quantum' cup to a certain pOinD.
 The ambassadorial conference may acquire still greater importance IT, as may happen Thursday, the peace con- ference is unable to continue the1r work, owing to the difficulties be- tween the Turks and Greeks on the question of an armistice, but the general impression among the dele gates is that this question Will De amicably solved. The possibility of the friendly offices of the United States bringing about settlement continues to be discussed.