The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-24
ALLIES DEMAND ALL BUT LIT. TILE MORE THAN SITE OF
 THE TURKISH CAPITAL.
TURKEY SAYS IMPOSSIBLE
Adjournment Taken Until Saturday to Give Ottoman Delegates Chance to Consider-Aeeean Islands
 and Crete Included.

London, Dec. 23.-After several days of preliminary slirmishing in accordance with the cherished tradi- tions of diplomacy, the Turkish dele gates today faced the real attack of the allies at the fifth meeting of the peace conference which has as an object the settling of the war between the Balkan allies and Turkey.
 The victorious allies held their most important cards on the table. l These were in the form of territorial conditions which they had agreed to | impose on the Ottoman empire. The demands as set forth were:
 First-The eession ny Turkey of i, all the territory west of line start | ing from a point east of Rodesta, on the sea of Marmora, to a point in the bay of Malatra on the Black sea and excluding the peninsula of Calli- | poh. Albanias status to be decided i by the powers.
 I Second-The cession of Aegean is- lands occupied by the Greek forces 1 in the present war and by the Italians 1 in the recent war
 Third-The cession to Greece of all Turkish rights in the Island of Crete. The allies did not reveal today the | financial proposals which they will make to Turkey, reserving them for a future meeting
 Before the allies presented their specifications today the Turks an nounced that their government was prepared to proceed with the negotia- tions, leaving the question of revict- uallying Adrianople for discussion be- tween Turkey and Bulgaria. They abandoned their previous request to provision Scutari and Janani
 The formal conference lasted only quarter of an hour The Turks lis tened to the proclamation of the fate of their European empire without | formal comment and asked tor an ad | journment until Saturday to consider the allies demands. In the formal conversation with the delegates which consumed an hour the Turks asserted
 it would be impossible for them to accept such terms, but that statement
 Is inevitable in meetings of this char
 acter and was expected today.
 The territorial profits of the war
 which the allies will divide are the
 same as those published in these des- patches Dec. IA, with the exception
 of the arrangement of the powers made for Albania. The allies will recognize the autonomy of Albania,
 under the suzerainty of the porte, but
 not it's sovereignty. Albania will be.
 come what Crete was and what Egypt 1 is in it's relations to Turkey. The
 Sultan will be the nominal ruler, but
 without political, ladministFative or
 military power. He will have the right to raise his flag in Albania and appoint a resident governor, but only for the purpose of ratifying the de cisions of the local government. All the delegates attended today's ses. sion. Every one appreciated the fact that the meeting was to mark the passage of the deliberations from the preliminary stage to that of real nego' tiations and that 1t was destined to revise the map of eastern Europe.
 The atmosphere of the stately coun
 cil chamber was charged with intense feeling through the proceedings.
 | NJ. Novakovitoh, head of the Ser
 yian delegations took the chair. On his right was M. Nikolitch, speaker oi
 the Servian parliament and on his
 left M Vosnitch. the Servian minis ter to France The president of the conference asked Rechad Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation to notify
 the conference as to the instructions
 he had received from Constantinople.
 Rechad Pasha replied that the I'm
 perial Ottoman government had in
 structed him to treat with all thu
 allies, Greece included, without an,
 conditions.
 Dealing with the question of revict
 ualling the beseiged fortresses, Re
 chad Pasha said Turkey even wal ready to lay aside the cases of Scu tari and Janina. In Adrianople h'
 said it was known the hospitals were
 over-crowded and their patients lack
 ing in primary necessities. Women children and the aged were suffering or starving. He must insist. he said On provisi0ning~Adriano to an ex tent which would meet the demandi of humanity. but which would be i'll sufficient to place the belligerents il a better position than they held whel the armistice was signed
 | Rechad said he was animated b' l a desire to avoid procrastination. an' the question might be dealt with di l rectly between the Turks and tn Bulgarians. thus making it possibl | for the conference to continue. Tn heads of the allied delegations es