The chronicle=news., 1912-12-21
MAY
CAUSE MORE
TROUBLE IN
BALKANS

London. Deg. :l.-Whcn the peace
rnyoys OF The Balkan states and Of
Turkey me; again In conference at
81. James Palace this afternoon Ser
via. ON the suggestion Of Great Bri-
tain. France and Russia. declared her
readiness TO accept the principle OF
Albanian autonomy and ncutrallzn-
lion.
THIS mov. hs the object OF making
Ausii explain the reason
inr her nfmnmcnts and say what her
u! !;inRtc desires are.
The fear IL entertained IN many
quarters that .tusttia-Hunynry II
claiming n scheme. which II II proves
viii make Scrvia n kind
Of vassai state, II is ruDorcd among
other conditions Of u financial. com
mcrcini aud economic character,
Aust a-HunEary intends To Impose
y limitation of the strength Uf tho
Scrvi,n army which neither the BAL
kan league nor Russia would ever ad-
nit.
tOr situation. u IL saId. explains
why Austria. Hungary Is keeping l:
OF her army corps On u war footing.
four OF them ready to cross the Ser
Wan frontier. four Of them In Cali
Gear. near the itus,inn frontier. two
In ItoSnia and HERZEGOVINA and two
aionv .hr Italian frontier.
II IS nottocrbi". accofj.u 10 mill
tary experts. that notwithstanding
the triple alliance during the last
decade Austria Hungary has con-
stantiy augmented the strength OF
her troops alorI the Venetian and
TyroIcsc iincs-
The anAiousiy awaited Ottoman
,"pr'"- .Is arrived from Co.s',n,ip-
opic besrinE frcsh Instructions to tho
Turkish peace plen!potcntinrics. iu
view OF the forccas, Of these lnstruc-
lions tclcEraphcd from Constantin-
oplc. l, Is feared their contents are
likely TO pr.cipitatc trouble.
There Is little doubt. however.
that the necessary arrangements to
intervene with tn. hope OF prc.n,-
inE an irrclativ- rupture OF the peace
conference until they hav. tried to
bridE" the gulf separating the El-
lied Balkan nations from the Turks
on the question OF the future OF
Adrianoplc.
Today's session. the fourth since
the pence conferences we're begun.
Was the longest " held The dele
gates had before them Turkeys fresh
instructions empowering the Turkish
delegation to treat with the Grocinn
representatives on condition that
Turucl be allowed To- rcviCtual the
fortress Of Adrianoplc.
Til" d, .Ision OF this question occu-
pied the entire session and an agree
mrnt had .IOt been reached when the
conference adjourned to meet again
Monday afternoon.
The pcarc conference adjourned at
. o'clock this evening after scs-
sion lastin: two hours
I, Is understood that the contcn-
ton OF tho Balkan allies delegation
Is ,ha, the question of rcvlcualing
of tho armisticc and that hey have
not power to interfere with those
terms DR.. Oancff. head of tho
Bulgarian delegation. said. after the
adjournment that IL was uncertain
whether the delegates would be able
to reach u definite decision even on
MondaU.
An official communication of the
progress of the pcac" conference was
issued later in the day. II says:
THE further adjournment OF the
conference is due to tho fact that the
Turkish ENJOYS demanded the rcvici-
ualiuc Of the fortress OF AdrianOpl"
the allied Balkan nations replied
that was not a condition Of the arm
istica drawn at Tchataljn. The Turks
,hcr.upon stated that in view of the
contention set mp by tho allies they
must apply to their government for
instructions on that point.
Paris. Dec. 2l.-prcmicr Poin-
care was very optimistic about the
European situation in speech he
delivered today in the chamber OF
deputies He declared that Scrvia
would accept the suggestion made by
the ambassador Of the great powers
that she should obtain a commercial
outlet on the Adriatic sea. He also
gave voice to the hope that peace in
the Balkans would soon be signed
He added that il negotiations be-
tween the delegates to the peace con-
European powers would quickly re-
European powers would nuicly re-
sort to mediation