The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-20
WILL BROOK NO DELAY IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BEING
 HELD IN LONDON.
TURKS MUST TREAT AT ONCE
BuIgar Diplomats Say Their New and Rested Army Can Knock at Con- stantinople's Gates Within Few
 Days From Tchatalja.

London, Dec. l9-The peace confer ence was in session only short time today The Turkish delegates an- nounced that fresh instructions had been dispatched from Constantinople by special courier: therefore adjourn ment until Saturday was taken, by which time the instructions should reach London.
 News comes from the Ottoman cap ital tonight that the government is em lowering the delegates to proceed with the negotiations with the Gree as well as the Balkan plenipotentiaries This decision. tends toward peace, as there has been a suspicion that the Turks were maneuyering for time so that they might strengthen taeir army.
 The conference now Is exactly in the same position as the Portsmouth conference after the first weeks work, The different parties are daily feeling the way before striking a decisive blow.
 After the sitting today some of the Balkan delegates expressed disgust a.. the way affairs were dragging while five armies and three besieged towns were enduring all the sufferings war and the respective countries were the prey of desolation, misery and death.
 A Bulgarian delegate observed that the Turks we're much mistaken if they delayed the conference, hoping to strengthen their army with troops from Asia These endorsements were chiefly composed of undisciplined bashi bazouks who would prove ser- ious danger to he Turks
 in the meantime the ais!ss are con- cenrating greater foIces along the Tchatalja frontier to eal1'e t,.em i. war Is resumed, n srrive al .snls.an' l' ho3ie within fes lays
 The preShii,lg crin.;n Is tat the Val ".ss postpa .naills are aiming al intervention by the powers. Turkey hopes to obtain better terms through the powers, some of whom have pre- dominant interests in the Ottoman empire. Besides Turkey wouid cons der it less humiliaeils to cede ser.i- tory on pressp .~,n .te ? wers than < [ the commanl 0. less Balkan sta s .waich were d.pif.si to the MGssnaiman werl1 IL. | recently as negligible quant ies'
 The Balkan delegates especially the seryians and Montenegrins express dissatisfaction with the statement made Wednesday by Marquis DfSan- guiliano, the Italian foreign ministe~ concerning the aims of the triple al- lIance and remark that Italy had a Unique position towards the Balkan states, having herself risen from noth- ing to q nationality through the union of kingdoms They expected her sup port in similar movement by the Balkans whose resurrection is now oc- curing, as predicted by the great Italian thinker and agitatof Giuseppe Mazzini when. in his slave letters in the middle of the 18th century, he fore saw the Balkan peoples uniting to ex- pei Turkey from Europe.
 In voicing taeir objections, these delegates point out that the Italian government has followed a policy strongly favorable to Austria by re- newing the triple alliance sevt- months before the date of it's expira- ton snd has made statement there on just at the moment when tthe fate of the Balkans were being decided while at the same time the Italian people are favorable 10 the Balkan cause and the Italian reigning house is intimately bound to those of Monte negro s0d Servia.
 The Greek proposals will be moro complicated than those of the other allies, because they include the ques. ton of capitulations whicn Greece alone among the Balkan states en Joys in Turkey with the great powers The capitulations originally imposed in Turkey by the republic of Genoa II l55S include exemption from taxation Tor foreign subjects. special courts and other provisions. Greece is ready to accept clause in the treaty witt