Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-11-27
HOPE TO AVERT
A GENERAL WAR
|SNOW GROWING
Believed Difficulties
Can Be Settled
Peaceably.
EUROPEAN POWERS AT
LAST REALIZE DANGER
Conference for Armistice in
Balkans Being HeId-Turks
May Hold Out.

LONDON, Nov. 27.-The fact that
he European powers have at last re-
allied that they were drifting toward
certain conflict tends to relieve the
Immediate tension of the interna-
tlonal political tangle into which the
Balkan situation has now developed.
The belief that Great Britain,
France and Germany will succeed IN
averting the threatened general Eu-
ropean war has been strengthened
within the last twenty -four hours.
It is now asserted that Austria
Hungary is prepared to agree to the
questions concerning the future or
Albania, and the desire of Servia for
a port on the Adriatic sea, being set
tied in connection with all other is
sues by the Balkan war, as was re-
Gently proposed by Premier Asquith.
II this change of the Austro-Hu
garian attitude should be confirmed
the dangerous pressure at present
Existing will be removed.
Diplomats declare that they see
plenty of methods of meeting the re-
anrements of Servia without Sc
rously inconveniencing Austria Hun
gary or burying the formula of AL
bania for the Albanians.
Even the occupation of the Port of
Durazzo by the Servian troops Will
rot necessarily change the interna-
lonal situation, as 1t is long step
rom the present occupation to per-
manent retention of the port by the
Servians, which is a question that
could be settled only by an agree
n,ent of the European powers.
The stumbling blocks in the way of
an agreement by the ENJOYS of Tur-
key and Bulgaria who are now dis
clssing peace in a parlor car at the
village of Baghtche. near sTchatalja
Ines. remain very real. The Turks
appear to show little disposition to
submit to onerous terms. The nego-
tiations are likely to continue for sew
eral days.
lie French assertion that Austria
Hungary is urging the Ottoman gov
ernment to prolong the war is de-
scribed in -semi-official communica-
ton issued in Vienna as malicious
invention, circulated with the object
Of injuring Austria Hungary In the
eyes of the Balkan peoples"
The report is circulating again in
Sofia that Turkey desires to enter the
Balkan confederation. 1t is asserted
that she has already made certain ad-
vances in this direction in the way of
roposals to the allied Balkan states.
MITSTAPHA PASHA, Turkey, Nov.
Fire. famine, flood and anarchy
afflict the besieged Turkish fortress
Of Adrianople. according to reports
brought here by fugitives from that
city
Those refugees who have managed
o escape through the lines of invest
ment. which are being drawn closer
every day around the Turkish strong
hold declare that many buildings in
the vicinity of the Selim Mosque are
on fire.
Other districts of the city are deep
ly inundated with the waters of the
rivers Martha, Tunga and Arda,
which have overflowed their banks.
The civilian population is declared
to be short of food and among some
classes a state approaching anarchy
exists.
PARIS, Nov. 27-The French Min
ister of War issued statement to-
day declaring that the report of the
mobilization of the French army on
the eastern frontier and elsewhere
was utterly unfounded. The calling
out of the reservists in the neighbor-
hood of Nancy is declared to have
been due to a misunderstanding.
VIENNA. Nov. 27.--Emperor Fran
els Joseph today held a series OF i'm
portant audiences at Schoenbrunn
palace He received successfully
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir
to the throne; the chief of the general
staff of the army, the minister of war,
and finally Foreign Minister Bercht-
hold and the Hungarian minister of
national defense. The first and last
audiences were each over an hour In
duration.
WASHINGTON. Nov 81. = All
American citizens in Asiatic Turkey
are safe and unmolested, according
to reports to the State Department by
Consul General Hollis at Beirut,
SYRIA. who announced the receipt of
adyices from various consulss through
OUT the district Txcept for some ex-
oitement among the Mohammedans at
Haifa and Adana, everything is re-
ported quiet in this region.