The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-24
AOvICE FROM
BIG BROTHERS
the Six Powers Arc Urging Turkey to
Smooth Down Her Feathers
and Act More Rea-
sonable.
TO MEET ON SATURDAY r
" REMARKABLE FICTION
No Formal Session Of Peace ENJOYS
For Several Days While eau
euses Arc Being
Held.

United Press Leased Wire Service
LONDON, Dec. 24.-The six powers
are urging Turkey to abandon Adrian
ople and to accept in principle the
terms proposed by the Balkan allies
at the last session of the peace CON
ference.
1t was learned today from semi
Official source that Great Britain.
france and Russia, Of the triple en-
tente, and Germany Austria Hungary
and Italy. of the triple alliance,
through secret diplomacy, were ad-
vising the porte to accept the pro-
posal of the allies, because for Tur-
key to refuse would cause the Balkan
war to be resumed, and a resumption
iof hostilities might endanger the
peace OF the rest of Europe, always
admittedly precarious.
| Diplomats admitted that the situa-
ton was most delicate and difficult
one, because the militarists of Con
stantinople and the young Turks were
advocating the breaking of of nego-
] tiations and renewal of hostilities.
There was to be no further formal
session of the peace conference at
st. James Palace until Saturday after
noon, but this did not mean that to-
day was an idle one for the delegates.
There were conferences at ali of the
hotels where the plenipotentiaries
stopped and the telegraphs were kept
buzzing with messages to Constan
! tinople and to the Balkan capitals
I While envoys Of all the nations in
Ivolved were hurriedly packing their
grips for home, ostensibly for Christ
mas, but in reality to consult with
their ministries and obtain final In
structions, others of each nation were
! prepared to spend the interval in
London, to keep weather eye on
their colleagues and oppon 4nts.
4 While this was going on, diplomats
of the great powers were consulting
with the Turkish delegates, as well
as the Balkan envoys. seeking infor
nation and giving advice.
1t was admitted by those watching
the war game that peace negotiations
had only begun and that the kaleid
oscopic picture would change many
times and materially before a fina
agreement was reached.
The exhorbitant territorial de
mands OF the allies surprised nobody
I not even the Turks. IT was conceded
al the outset that all parties to tbs
Balkan struggle would make their In
itial demands as heavy as possible, sf
that in the inevitable scaling down o
the give and take process, all par
tles would in the end find themselve!
possessed of far less than they askes
at first, but as much or more thai
they secretly hoped to get.
The territorial demands submitted
4 to the Turks were read by DR.. Daneff
chief of the Bulgarians, and forme'
I only the first article of the proposals.
to be submitted by the Balkan al
lance.
The effect would be to leave tn
sultan nothing in Europe save Con
stantinopie and the control OF tn
nardanelles. The new Turkish bound
ary proposed by the allies, runs from
Cane Malatra, on the Black sea, to
noint east Of Rodosto, on the Sea Q
Marmora. thence south along tn
Tardanelles and west of Gallipoli
The status of Albania is left to tn
great powers by the Balkan allies
, proposal, in accordance with the r
cent ambassadorial agreement.
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