Arizona republican., 1912-12-20
After Brief Session, An nouncement is Received by Turkish Deleg ates That the Ottoman is Send ing Fresh Instructions
WILL CONFER
 WITH GREEKS
Conference Closely Resem- bles That of the Ports mouth Meeting in Which Were Some Most Striking Diplomats of the Age
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHl

LONDON, Dec 19.-The peace con- Turkish delegates announced that fresh instructions had been dispatched from Constantinople by special courier; therefore an adjournment until Satur- day was taken at which time instruc- tions should reach London.
 News comes from the ottoman capi- tai of the government empowering the delegates to proceed with tn negotiations with the Greeks as well as the Balkan plenipotentiaries This decision tends toward peace. as there has been a sus- picion that the Turks have been man. euvering for time so that they might strengthen their army.
 The conference is now in exactly the same position as the Portsmouth con ference after the first weeks work. The different parties are daily feeling their way before striking a decisive blow. Rechad Pasha strongly recalls Count Witte's shrewdness, while Greek Pre-
 mier Venizelos. could be compared with Komura on account of his cool atti- | tude and unshakable calmness. The other interesting personalities are Dr. ! Danneff, chief of the Bulgarians, like | an American politician; Novakavitch. ex-premier of Servia, an experienced | statesman and the Montenegrin, Mi yuskivitch, a keen diplomatist. After the sitting today some of the I Balkan delegates expressed disgust at the way affairs were dragging, while ! the five armies and three besieged ! towns are enduring all the suffering Of war and the respective countries are
 prey to desolation misery and death. l A Bulgarian delegate observed that ! the Turks are much mistaken if they delayed the conference hoping to strengthen their army with troops from 1 Asia. These endorsements are chief | ly composed of undisciplined Bashi Ba
 zokus, who would prove a serious dang
 CT not to the army but to the Turks l themselves.
 l In the meantime all are concentrating l greater forces along the Tchatalja l front to enable them, if war is re- stunned, to reach Constantinople in | few days
 The prevailing opinion is that the various postponements are aiming at 1 intervention of the powers. Turkey | hopes to obtain better terms through l the powers. some of whom have pre- | dominant interests in the ottoman em- pire. Beside. Turkey would consider it less humiliating to cede territory on pressure from the powers than at the
 command of the Balkan states, which 1 were depicted to the Museslman world as negligible quantities.
 The Balkan delegates. especially the Servians and Montenegrins, express
 dissatisfaction on a statement Wednes-
 day by Marquis Di Sangiuliano, the 1 Italian foreign minister, concerning the aims of the ripple alliance, end the re
 mark that Italy has unique position towards the Balkan states having her ! self risen from nothing to nationality
 thronugh the union of kingdoms. It is
 expected of her to support a similar
 movement by the Balkans, whose res
 urrection is now occurring as predicted by the great Italian agitator Giuseppe Mazzini when in his Slav letters in the , middle of the eighteenth century he
 foresaw the Balkan peoples uniting to l cXpel Turkey from Europe.