Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31
ALLIES MAY SPLIT
Union of Balkan States Said to
Be Threatened.
SUSPICION AS TO BULGARIA
Fear Felt That She Is Working for
Her Own Advantage.
COMPLAINT MADE BY GREECE
Objects to Proposed Arrangement by
Which She Is Not Allowed to
Retain Saloniki.
COMPLAINT MADE BY GREECE

LONDON, December 31.-EXcitement is
growing among the Balkan allies. whose
union, although maintained in all Off
cial manifestations, is in reality threat
ened with disintegration.
The greatest fear is entertained thai
Bulgaria, through her representatives in
the present peace conference here, is
working chiefly for her own advantage
Accordingly, the series of conversations
between Rechad Pasha, head of the
Ottoman delegation, and DR.. DaneT
leader of the Bulgarian ENJOYS. are
watched suspiciously. Moreover. Greece
complains bitterly because she is not
allowed to retain Saloniki and the Chalet
dice peninsula, which is as Greek as At,
tica, and is forced to yield Monastir to
Servia, although that town contains 20.
600 Greeks and only $50 Servians.
Greece also is obliged to renounce hel
possession of AvlOna. seaport Of AL
bania on the Adriatic, to please Italy
Even her right to remain in the islands
of ThasOS, Samothrace, ImbreS, LemnOs
Mytilene and Chios, which are thoroughly
Greek, is questioned, while objection is
raised also to her taking from Italy the
islands which the latter occupied during
the Turco-1talian war. although Premier
Giolitti, in a statement to the Italian par
lament, openly alluded to Italy's inten-
ton to cede them to Greece.
Say Demands Were Sacrificed.
Servia and Montenegro also are dis
satisfied at what they consider the sacri-
flee of their just demands to both Turkey
and Austria
This situation is we'll understood by the
Turks. who are trying to take advantage
Of 1t, while at the same time they are
playing on the jealousies of the powers.
Almost all rests on the attitude of Bull
garia as to whether it will be possible to
prevent the jealousies from gaining the
upper hand, and thus maintain the coali-
ton intact against the attempts of Tur-
key and the powers to destroy it.
The allies claim that if united now
they will be stronger than ever before,
having refilled their treasures through
loans concluded in Paris, Greece and
Bulgaria obtaining funds at per cent,
and Servia at . per cent.
Submission to Powers.
CONSTANTINOPLE, December ST.
The instructions which were sent to
Rechad Pasha to be presented at yes
terday's session of the peace conference
in London. and which the head of the
Ottoman delegation reported were in
part undecipherable. were to propose
the submission of all matters at issue
between Turkey and the Balkan states
to the decision of the powers, with the
exception of the question of the future
possession of the Adrianople villayet.
The Official view is that this proposal
Of the porte affords the most practi-
cal, and at the same time the most ex-
peditious, means Of reaching solution
of all difficulties.
Insists on Sovereign Rights.
So far as the Adrianople villayet il
concerned, the Turkish government insist:
upon the absolute maintenance of it:
sovereign rights. With this exception the
porte is ready to place itself unreservedly
in the hands of the powers for the settle
ment of all matters affecting the politica
organization Of Albania and Macedonia
the limits of the new frontiers and the
question of the Cretan Islands.
The Turkish contention is that the pow
ers In any case eventually must super
wise whatever arrangement Is made, anG
the conflicting interests of the allies IL
calculated to cause infinite delays anG
possible disagreements. Therefore. tn.
project of placing the case Immediately
In the hands of the powers is likely t.
put an end more quickly to the presen
equivocal situation.