The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-12-25
Turkey TO 1lElT Win GREECE
sCONsrANTINOPLE GOVERNMENT
RECEDEs FROM HITHERTO
HOSTILE POSITION.
F,cnipoteptiarSes Are F~cling Their
wsy Daily Before ssriking Decisive
Biow-Ralkan Arics Say Fort Gan
Nut Gain BY Delay.

London. Dec. is.-rhe peace con-
ference was In session only q short
time today. The Turkish delegates
announced 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
capital tonight that the government
10 empowering the delegates to pro-
coed with the negotiations with the
Greeks n well an the Balkan pleni-
potentiaries. This decision tends to-
ward peace. M there has been sus-
ptcion that Turks were manoeuvring
for time. % that they might strength
en- their army.
The conference now 10 In exactly
the same position a. the Portsmouth
conference after the FIRST weeks WORK.
The different parties are daily feeling
the way before striking q decisive
blow.
Riechad Pasha strongly recalls
Count Wits shrewdness. while the
Greek premier. venexelos. can be
compared with Gomura on account Of
HE cool attitude and unshaken calm
nsss There are ot'rc very interest
Ing personalities. DIR. Daneif. chief Of
the Bulgarian delegation. like an
American politician. Novakavitch. the
kex-premier of servis. Is an experience
ed statesman; the Montenegrin MI.
yuskoviiea. a keen dipiomatist.
After the sitting today some of the
Balkan delegates expressed disgust at
the way AFFAIRS were dragging while
-favs armies and three besiegsd towns
we're enduring all the suffering Of
war and the respective countries were
the prey Of desolation. misery and
death
A Bulgarian delegate observed that
the Turks were much mistaken IL
they delayed the conference hoping
Co strsnsthen their army with troops
from Asia These reinforcements
we're chiefly composed Of undiscipiin-
ed Bashi- Basouks. Who would prove
. ssrious danger TO the Turks.
In the meantime the allies are con-
esntrafing greater forces along the
Tchatalja front To- enable them, 10
war is resumed. TO arrive at Constan-
tlnopie within few days
The prevailing opinion is that the
Various postponements are aiming a,
Intervention by the povera Turkey
hopes to obtain bstter terms through
the powers. some Of whom have pre-
dominant Interests In the Ottoman
empire. Besades. Turkey would con-
aidsr Il Ices humiliating to cede ter
ritory on pressure from the powers
than at the command Of those Bal
hsn states which were depleted to the
4ussulman world until recently az
negligible quantities.
The Balkan delegates. especially the
Servians and Montenegrins. expressed
dissatisfaction with the statement
"Wednesday by Marquis Di San Gull
hino. the Italian foreign minister. con-
corning the aims Of the Triple ALL
ance and remark that Italy had
unique position towards the Balkan
a ves. having herself risen from noth-
ins to n nationality throgh the union
OF kingdoms. They expected her sup
port In q similar movement by the
Balkan states. whose resurrection IL
now occurring an predicted by the
great Italian thinker and agitator.
0iussrippe Mazzini. when. In his let
ters In the middle Of the 18th century,
ne foresaw the Balkan peoples unit
ing to expei the Turks from Europe.
The delegates ooipa-out that the
italian govern srss followed q