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Meet With Representatives of the Allies and Then Ask for Adjournment Until Saturday to Con- sider the Proclamation.
SESSION FIFTEEN
 MINUTES LONG
Under the Territorial Claims of the Various Countries the Entire Map of Southern Europe Would Be Changed.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

days of preliminary skirmishing, in accordance with the cherished tradi . tions of oriental diplomacy. the Fur ilish delegates faced today the real attack of the allies in the first meet ing of the peace conference, at which the victorious allies laid their most important cards on the table These form the territorial conditions which Ottoman empire.
 The demands set forth were:
 First-The cession by Turkey of all territory west of a line starting at q point east of Rodesto. on the sea of Marmora, to point on the bay of Malata. on the Black sea, excluding the peninsula of Gallipoli. where Al bania's status is to be decided by the powers.
 Second-The cession of the Aegean islands occupied by the Greek forces in the present war and by the Ita- Ilans in the recent war
 Thrd-The cession to Greece of ali Turkish rights in the island of Crete.
 The allies are not revealing today the financial proposals which they will make to Turkey, reserving them for future meeting.
 Before the allies presented their specifications today the Turks an nounced their government was pre- pared to proceed with the negotia tions. leaving the question of the re- victualing of Adrianople for discus sion between Turkey and Bulgaria They abandoned the previous request to provision Scutari and Janina.
 The formal conference lasted only a quarter of an hour. The Turks listened to the proclamation relating to their European empire without formal comment and asked for ad journment until Saturday for con sideration of the allies demands. In an informal conversation with the delegates, which consumed an hour, it was asserted that it would be inn possible for them to accept such terms. but that such a statement was inevitable at meeting of this character and was expected today.
 The territorial profits of war which the allies will divide are the same as those published in these dis patches on December 14, with the eX- ception of the arrangement the pow CTS have made for Albania, with autonomy of Albania under the su- zerainty of the porte. but not its sovereignty, Albania will become what Crete was and what Egypt IS in relation to Turkey. The sultan will be the nominal ruler, but with cut political, administrative or mili- tary power. He will have the right to raise his flag in Albania and to appoint a resident governor, but only for the purpose of ratifying decisions of the local government.
 All the delegations attended to- days session in full force, with mili- tary, legal advisers and secretaries. Everyone appreciated the fact that the meeting is to mark the passage of the deliberations from the pre- liminary stage to that of the real negotiations destined to revise the map of eastern Europe.
 The atmosphere. it was stated. in the council chamber was charged with tense feeling throughout the proceedings. M. Novokovitch, head of the Servian delegation, took the chair. while on his right was NJ. Nikolitieh, speaker of the Servian parliament. and on his left M. Vos- hitch, the Servian minister to France. Immediately after General Cruich had read the minutes of the last meeting and they were approved the president of the conference asked Rechas Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation, to notify the conference as to the instructions he had re- ceiyed from Constantinople.
 The Pasha replied that the Imperial Ottoman government wished to give one more proof of it's sincere desire to hasten the discussion and to dc the utmost possible to reach sat- isfactory and honorable settlement with all parties concerned. Therefore it had instructed him to treat with all the allies. Greece included. with out any conditions.
 Dealing with the question of re victualing the besieged fortresses Rechad Pasha said that Turkey was and Janina. In Adrianople, which was referred to as the cradle of Turkish power in Europe. he said it was known that hospitals are overcroWde6 patients lacking primary necessities while women, children and the ageG are suffering and starving. He must Continued on Page Eight