The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-15
THE ALLIED BALKAN STATES GO INTO THE PEACE CONFER
 -ENcE WITH SOLID FRONT.
SEND MESSAGE TO AMERICA
Decleare if Peace Terms are Not Agreed on By New Years, at St. James, They Will Be Enforc-
 ed at constantinople.

London, Dec. 14--On the eve of the peace conference, the Associated Press has gathered from the repre- sentatives of the Balkan kingdoms and the foremost Turkish delegates an authoritiye declaration of the terms which the victorious kingdoms propose to enforce and the Ottoman views thereon.
 Like experienced diplomatists all the Balkan delegates in speaking off ciaily adhere to the watchword adopt ed in the first and probably the last preliminary meeting before entering the conference, that they are "iil complete accord and have established perfeetly united program to fol. low"
 When they speak with friends not for quotation, their faces light up with their enthusiasm and their faith is admirable.
 Tell the Americans" they say,
 
 moral support, as we are fighting des- perately and shading our best blood for the same cause which rendered the name of Washington glorious and venerated. We are risking all we possess for our liberty and iudepsnd ence."
 Tell them they added in perfect English, M. Vesniteh the Seryian min ister, at Paris, who is a polyglot and Ia learned professor, that some ot ths sons of the Balkans who became American citizens are in the ranks at the front giving proofs of yalor and bravery of which Uncle Sam should be as proud as we are"
 The determination of the Balkan states not to allow an Ottoman policy of procrastination is significant on account of the form which 1t has man. itested
 The Turks are much mistaken, :" said one of the chief delegates, If they entertain such an idea. Peace will practically be concluded between Christmas and New Years around the diplomatic table ill St. James Palace or we will impose it in Constanti- nople at Easter, under the range of our cannon and at the point of our bayonets. But the conditions then will be very different. Now we are satisfied with the minimum demands; then we will exact the maximum.
 The main conditions of the allies include the immediate surrender of Scutari, Adrianopla and Janina. the garriscns of which will he granted full military honors: the evacuation of eastern Europe by Turkey as far as east fIfeiiataljia ia to line which experts appointed by the contracting parties will delimit on the spot; the eession to Greece of all the Aegan islands, including Rhodes and eleven others which Italy is keeping as a pledge of Turkish fiilfillment of the treaty of Lausanne; the annexation of Crete to Greece and the payment of war in demnity aIsl the expenses sustained. Tn retu7n the allies will grant com piete amnesty to the Mussulman poDu- lation in the territories they annex, for any acts of hostility during the war; the returned of all prisoners; the recognition of the spiritual soy eneignty of the sultan over Ottomans becoming subjects of the Balkan states and the free administration by the Mussulmans of their pious funds in the Balkans
 The Servian expermier Stojan Nakovitch head of the Sevian plsn. l ipotentiaries informed the Associated i Press that lie was satis4ed an agree ment would be reached on the ques | ton of an Adriatic port on which Ser via and Austria are at swords points.
 Rechad Pasha. the most distinguish | ed Ottoman delegate, who has resid- ed so long abroad that he is a type oi the intelligent cosmopolitan, express ed the hope that the assistance of the powers on the one side and the mcder. ation on the part of the allies on the | the other would result in solution which if not satisfactory to Turkey ] would safeguard her dignity. He fear ed that harmony of the allies will last only while the common enemy is be fore them but that the moment they are left to themselves they will be plunged into anarchy over the diYls ion of the spells, rendering interyen' ton by the powers inevitable
 He said he would havs to raise the question at the first meeting of the | failure Of Greece to join the armistice
 "Is it possible" he asked, to treat for peace while war Is in progress% some understanding would have 10 be anulled by the progress of the mil tary operations. What would be the
 use of discussion about Janina while the discussion is going on; Il
 would be forced to eapituiate2 oi