Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-27
ANTl-WAR FEELING lN EUROPE.

IN EUROPE.
 Attuned to the spirit of the season Of peace on earth is the cable dis.
 patch from London telling of the agreement of the ambassadorlal rep resentatives Of the powers on some sharlg eoniroyerted points in the Balkan problem. The official state. ment, issued after the close of Fri days conference, says that the am bassadors have recommended to their governments, and She latter have ac- cepted, the principle of Albanian autonomy and provision guaran- teeing to servia commercial access to the Adriatie Sea. The unequiyocal statement is made that all six of the great powers, England. France. Ger many. Russia, Austria and Italy, are agreed on these two points 'in prin- ciple The qualifying term may mean much or little, Austria's concession or an Adriatic port to serv1a must have been made under pressure of her allies in the Triple Alliance. Aus trias warllke disposition has been one Of the plainest things in evil dence since the beginning Of difiicui. ties. It has been made equally plain that Germany and Italy would make common cause with Austria against Russia and any allies Russia might find. But hardly less plain has been the desire of Austria's allies to avoid a war if possible. If there has heen an Austrian Lackdown on the ques- tion of an Adriatic port for Seryia, it must have been forced by the Ger man kaiser, or 1t may yet be found not to te a backdown when the principle is to Ie transmutcd into practice.
 Albanian autoEomy was, in all prob. ability, much more easily agreed upon than the concession or Q Seryian port ca the Adriatic. The Turkish repre- sentatives at the conference must have objected. but without hope of success. AIbanian opposed the treaty of Berlin, made in 1878. when Russia. at the close of a victorious war, was preparing to dictate the terms of Turkish dismem,erment, in Constan. tinople. AIbaDians were at that time hoping for an absolutely independent state, and the disposition made oi them fell far short of their aspira- lions. These aspirations may still suI- vive. and any treaty oC London be as unsatisfactory to Albania as that Of Berlin was. But the little country is as powerless now as it was when. without the help Of one or more Jf the powers. and complete autonomy, # Albania can get il, will offer i'm measurable relief rom present condi- tions. Besides. granting. Albanian autonomy is the driving of another wedge in the log. in the slowly pro gressive work Of dismembering Tur- key in Europe. to which all of the rowers can assent in the game Of con ceding something to Christian opinion without preiudicing any territorial claim. Christian opinion may console itself with the thought that ancient Illyria, or Epirus. part Of St. Paul's first missionary itinerary in Europe, is at last to be taken from under the Paynim hand
 The negotiations at London have already progressed far enough toI sfrenthen the suspicion that the arm istioe vas a result of diplomatic in tgtgee to sop a victorious army in its course. turkish willingness to al low Greece to enter the conference without accepting the armistice shows the isolation of Greece. and the use the Sublime Porte has marked the deilay in greatly sirenstheing Turk ,