New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-30
ArmistiCe May or May Not Be
Siuned TO-mOrrOW-VeteT-
ans Prepare to Return
to Fighting Zone.
TURKS AGAIN TAKE HEART
Adrianople Must Not Become an
Ottoman Alsace- Lorraine,
Says a Constantinople
Newspaper-Servla
Still Defiant.

London, Nov. O.-Constantinople, i'm
o dispatch dated midnight, reports the
nrobabiIity Of a fortnights armisuce
beIng signed by Sunday by the peace
Observation-Disclosures who are negotiating
for a cessation Of hostilities between
tho Turks and the allies. From ihe
Br1rarian side there was no news yes
terday concerning the peace negoua-
tions except the vague statement that
they were making satisfactory progress.
The government is actively prepaT-
ing for a possible rupture of the peace
pegotiations and a resumption of hos
ruties." says the correspondent of "Ihe
Daily Telegraph" in Constantiuopie.
THE streets again are swarming win
soldiers. The Lulc Burgas veterans are
prenaring to return to the front, and
the Redifs are marching to barracks to
ne provided with uniforms and equip
n,ent The great square in front OF the
Ministry Of War is a veritable camp
whore thousands of recruits are await
ing orders to march
If hopes of peace are entertalh'"
there certainly never have been NOR
ardent preparations. Since Thursday
the government has been observing
such complete silence regarding the
peace pourparlers that even the am
nassadors are absolutely lacking in
knowledge of their precise position.
In any case, there is no indication
that the Bulgarians have abandoned
fFrir principle for the surrender Oh
,driauoplc. The government journal
sabab., declares that Adrianople must
rot become an ottoman Alsace-Lor-
rafpo. The article indicates a great
.r.roe i'm Turkish hopes by advising
,hc BuIgars to content themselves with
The acceptance OF frontiers.
Whether the proposed armisuce VIII
.,0ect the whole acid Of war operations
.l. only the Tchataldja lines has not yer
,rauspircd
Turk Divisions Surrender,
.- The news received Yesterday of the
surrender of two entire divisions Of
Turkish reserves to the Bulgarians in
the neirbborhood of Demotika. short
distance south of Adriauople, after Sc
we're lighting, shows there are still large
Isolated bodies of Turkish troops un .
,ccounted for, and which must be con-
s;dered in arranging an armistice, The
lilies are said 10 have large numbers
of men who are proceeding in Greek
transports from the Gulf Of Salonlca
either for the Gallipoli peninsula, which
senarates the Dardanelles from the
42gean, or to join the allied army at
TchataIdia. No news has yet been re-
ceived concerning these transports, and
the disposal Of the men they carry, III
the event of an armistice being ar
ranged, would present some difficulty.
Although It is not yet safe to assume
that an armistice is in sight, the fact
that the negotiations continue at
Baghtche and that apparently no def
mite time limit has been fixed as to the
duration of the existing suspension Of
hostiIitfes tends to show that peace
ful solution of the trouble is approach
ing.
Now that she has occupied Durazzo,
Servia appears TO fear that Austria
Hungary will not wait for the whole
question Of the Balkans TO be consid-
cred by a conference Of the European
powers after the cessation Of hostilities.
According TO reports reaching here
from Vienna she is mobilizing her army
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