The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-11-28
PEACE DELEGATES
HOLD A SESSION
ENJOYS Meet to Discuss Terms
to End War.
RESULT IS KEPT SECRET
Big Powers Fear Austria May EN-
broil All Europe II She In
sists on Her Present
Demands.

London, Nov 26.-The first meet
ing of the peace enjoys representing
Turkey and Bulgaria looking to the
terms in an effort to end the Balkan
war took place at the Beghtche, near
Biyuk Chekmendye, a small town In
the center of neutral zone, declared
such for the purpose of carrying on
the negotiations.
Beyond an intimation that the vic
torious invaders are prepared to mod
lily their original demands In regard
to the evacuation of the Tchatalja
lines by the Turks and also to permit
the Turkish garrison of Adrianople to
march out of that fortress with the
honors Of war, nothing has been al
lowed to transpire as to the discus
sions between the delegates.
While the principals are thus en-
gagged in efforts to arrange a truce
between the opposing armies prepar
atory to definite peace, preparations
elsewhere for possible trouble on
larger scale show no signs of abate-
ment
All Watch Austria's Course.
The specific statement published
In Berlin that Austria had prepared
an ultimatum to be sent to Servia
within few days caused a big slump
on the bourse, but was denied by the
German foreign office. The kaiser
is using all his influence to preserve
peace. His conference with the Aus
trian heir-apparent did nothing to
change his attitude, which from the
first has been that Servias claims are
not worth fighting for. His view is
apparently shared at st. Petersburg
There Is even strong anti-war
party in Austria itself, and Franz
Ferdinand will ruin his popularity in
Hungary, where alone he is popular,
If he pursues his warlike policy, as
the Hungarians are strongly opposed
to war. 1t is admitted in ministerial
and diplomatic circles that certain
ward in Russia and Austria to provide
against possibilities
May Defeat Asquith's Plan.
While the intentions of the great
European powers undoubtedly remain
peaceful, Austria Hungarian procedure
seems to foreshadow separate action
which will render difficult the realiza-
ton of the plan of Premier Asquith for
the settlement of near Eastern ques-
tons as whole when the war is
over.
The withdrawal of the Austrian
warship Admiral Spaun and Of the
Austrian contingent of bluejackets
from Constantinople, and the sudden
and unexplained departure for an un-
announced destination of the Austrian
squadron which has been lying at
Smyrna, are factors which are dis
turbing diplomats. who see in a close
union of all the great powers the
only hope of peaceable solution
From Vienna, too. comes the in
formation that the Servian war office
has recalled all the Servian troops
that can be spared from the columns
operating in the neighborhood of
Prisrend and Monastir, and that the
Notifications of the Servian capital
are being hastily supplied with heavy
artillery. The Austrians deduce from
these facts that Servia is not disposed
to yield and a pacific settlement of
the Austro-Servian dispute seems to
them difficult of realization, II Ser
Was demands are maintained as an
irreducible minimum.
Greeks Take Chos Island.
The Greeks are reported to have
occupied the large Turkish island of
Chios, in the aegean sea- 1t is one Of
the richest ard most beautiful islands
of the Lovant, with a population of
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