Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-20
TURKEY DELAYS
PEACE Meeting
ALTON PREVENTS
ANY DECISIVE ACTION BE-
ING TAKEN.
Allies BECOME OISCUSTED


LONDON, Dec. 19-The peace con
ference was I'm session only a snort
time today The Turkish delegates
announced that fresh instructions had
been dispatched from Constantinople
by special courier; therefore adiourn-
ment until Saturday was taken, by
which timo the instructions should
reach London
News from the ottoman capital to-
night that the government is empow-
yring the delegates to proceed with
the negotiations with the Greek, ns
well as the Balkan plenipotentiaries.
This decision tends towards peace, as
there has been a suspicion that the
Turks were maneuyering for time so
that they might strengthen their
army
The conference now Is exactly in
the same position as the Portsmouth
conference after the first weeks work.
Tch different parties are daily feeling
the way before striking n decisive
blow
After the sitting today, some Of the
Balkan delegates expressed disgust at
the way affairs were dragging. while
five armies and three besieged towns
were enduring all the sufferings Of
war and the respective countries were
the prey Of desoIation. misery and
doath
Bulgarian delegate observed that
the Turks were much mistaken if they
delayed the conference, hoping 60
strengthen their army with troops
from Asia. These reinforcements
chiefly composed of undisciplined
Rash Bazouks, who would prove
serious danger to the Turks
In the meantime the allies are con-
ccntratng greater forces along the
Tchatalja forntier TO enable them, If
war is resumed to arrive at Constan-
tinople within n few days,
The prevailing opinion Is that the
various postponements are aiming at
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 would con-
slider It less humlllatng to cede terri
tory on pressure from the powers than
at the command of those Balkan
states which were depicted to the
Mussclman world until recently as
negligible quantities.
The Balkan delegates especially the
Hervians and Montencgrins, express
dissatisfaction with the statement
made Wednesday by Marquis dl San
guilano, the Italian foreign minister,
concerning the aims Of the triple al
lance and remark that Italy had
unique position toward the Balkan
states having herself arisen from
nothing TO q nationality through the
union of kingdoms They expected her
support In "A similar movement by the
Balkans, whose resurrectlons Is now
occurring, as predicted by the great
italian thinker and agltator Giuseppe
Maz2ini, when, I'm his Slav letters in
the middle Of the eighteenth century.
he forosaw the Balkan peoples unit.
ing to cypel Turkey from Europe
In volcing these objections. these
point out that the Italian government
has followed policy strongly favor
able to Austria by renewing her triple
alliance seven months before the date
Of Its expiration and has made It's
statement thereon Just at the moment
when the fac Of the Balkans was be-
ing decided. while the same time
the italian people are favorable 10
the Balkan people and the Italian
rcigning house Is intimately bound to
those Of Montenegro and Servla
The Greek proposals will be more
complicated than those OF the other
allies, because they include the ques-
tIou Of capltuladons which Greece
alone among the Balkan states enjoys
In Turkey with the great powers. The |
capitulations, originally imposed on
Turkey by tho republic Of Genoa IN |
1853, include exemption from taxation !
for foreign subjects. special courts and /
other provisions Greece IS ready to /
accept n clause in the treaty with Tur. I
eky promising to renounce the right /
to capitulation when the others do |
tho same.
Another Greek delegate arrived to- |
day lie brought important papers 10 |
Premier Vanlzelos. lie "a Rio Ran /
gabe, whose father the writer poet /