Evening star., 1912-11-10

uC mas tuAS WoS IdiSC0 by oidNU ~
tie Montenegro at Podgo-itza scarcely
month ago has
! Advancing on been borne in con-
Constantionple. : storm Of fire and
| blood until 1t floats In triumph on the
| ramparts. Of Tchorlu and Tchatalja. All
hal. to the nag of the cross!
! The nag OF the cross must float over
Constantinople. A Turkish tradition con-
| fesses that ''Kismet" so wrote 1t ong ago,
and a Bulgarian tradition claims that be-
cause OF the meaning OF its name In the
| BulgarS language Constantinopie is the
City Of the Gar"
The hour Of the Turk struck i'm 1873.
The Christian army OF the czar crushed
| the crescent to earth then, but 1t was
jealous and interested congress that
| raised it and perpetuated 1t until now.
The Turk once more sues for peace
and the mediation OF these same powers.
The Official notification Of the communi-
cation was presented to the French min
istry OF foreign affairs the 9th instant
by the Turkish ambassador at Paris. The
request for mediation reads as follows:
THE Ottoman government requests the
great powers to undertake collective me-
diation, with q view to the immediate
cessation of hostilities and the determina
| ton Of the conditions of peace
NJ. Poincare, the premier of France.
alone appears to have had conception
of the necessary urgent action OF the
powers in the delicate crisis which SEEM
ed to have para yzed diplomacy. The
| matte representatives that France was
| ready to participate in any concerted
action. At the same time he informed
| the Turkish ambassador that the powers
| had agreed not to take action looking
toward mediation unless the belligerents
| were agreeable
A dispatch from London dated Con-
stantinople the night Of the 5th instant
says:
''If the Bulgarians force the Tchatalja
| lines and advance on Constantinople the
Ottoman government, to avoid signing
| treaty with Bulgarians in Constantinoplc,
will cross over to Asia Minor. leaving
the Bulgarians at Constantinople to set
| tie directly with the powers
The allies have plainly stated to the
powers that Turkey must treat directly
| with them and not with the powers There
! Is nothing. however, to prevent the pow
ers from acting by agreement as a friend
| ly mediator in Turkeys name.
Nor is 1t important that the sublime
porte remain in Constantinople to treat
with the victorious allies. In
| Substitute default of the sultan. "se-
Gill; raskier'' or any captive 'Ka-
SuIIdA. tib" Turk may be substitut-
ed at the last to sisn away the departed
power of the Osmanlis.
The dispatches are not clear as to the
divisions of views among the powers,
chief among which is Austria Hungary.
Hopes are expressed in interested
circles. that dissensions will divide the
| allies and break up their solidarity. But
the wisdom and patriotism of the Balkan
leaders appears so far too united to en-
courage any such illusion. The message
| of King Ferdinand to the Bulgar.a ans am
| the proclamation of King Nicholas to
Montenegrins breathe spirit of patriotic
ardor and devotion which augurs Well
| for the solidarity of the new federation.
A dispatch announces the terms of the
new proposition formulated by the French
premier. NJ. Po!ncare:
First The reccgn' ton by the powers OF
| the political and administrative changes
brought about in the territories occupied
| by the allied troops.
Second. The maintenance of the SOW
ereignty OF the sult'n at Constantinope e
| and the adjacent region.
| Third. The convocation of a Euronean
conference in which the Balkan nations
| will participate.
A dispatch from London reaffirms that
the Balkan states refuSe TO treat WIFI
others than Turkey. 1t says further: 1t
may be asserted now that the present
campaign has been followed in accord
| with a program. Since a long time an
officer of the staff. Col. Dousmann has
been occupied at Sofia in preparing mill
| tary details. while the political program
has been the principal work of NJ. Ven.z-
clos. the minister of war of Greece.
A disI atch from a Budapest corre-
spondeEt claims to know more than the
general public as to how the Balkan coa,i-
| ton was effected, a mystery, in fact, FOR
the European powers.
| First of all. according to the corre-
| spondent, there was a Serbo-Bulea ian
agreement whi@h wa az
Serbo-B -Bulgar complished after the most
Agreement. ,aa ous sns,a ne ,a, II, n
| lister. NJ. Bochkovitch. This agreement
was the work Of several. and among these
NJ. Spalaikovitch. minister of Sersia to
Bulgaria. The Servian m mister was con-
idant and collaboration of the lac NJ.
Melananovitch Turkey. apprised of the
action made efforts to detach Greece
| from the coalition. promising the promp.
solution OF all pending questions between
| Athens and Constantinople.
| It is highly interesting to relate in brief
what NJ. Spalaikovitch has sa to a cor