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TURKS Reject
PEACE TERMS
Nazim Pasha Ordered to Go
on With the War.
HOPE FOR COMPROMISE
BuIgarians Demanded Surrender OF
AdrianopIe, Seutar, Janina and the
Tchataija Defenses.

Adrianople, Scutari, Janina and the
Tchataija Defenses.
London, Nov. 22-The Ottoman gov
nrnment has rejected the terms Of
fered by the allied Balkan nations.
Nazim Pasha, the Turkish COM
mander-in-chief, has been ordered to
resume operations.
The official announcement of the
rejection of Bulgaria's terms reads:
'tThe Porte, finding the Bulgarian
conditions for an armistice inaccept-
able, has ordered Nazim Pasha to re-
sumo military operations"
The Bulgarian terms of peace are
impossible, according to the Turkish
to the correspondent of the Daily Mail
at Constantinople. Kiamil Pasha said:
81 received communication through
the Russian ambassador to Turkey of
the terms which the Bulgarians sug-
gest for an armistice as s. preliminary
to the discussion of the terms of
peace. The terms are impossible, and
unless they are radically altered the
war will continue.
'The Bulgarians asked for the sur
render of Adrianople, Scutari. Janina
and the Tchatalja lines"
The only hope of peace, the cores
pondent adds, now seems to lie in the
fact that these demands of the allies
probably were determined on before
the unsuccessful attacks were made.
by the Bulgarians on the Tchatalja.
lines during the first three days Of
this week.
The terms for an armistice proposed
by the Bulgarians are in no way in
the nature of an ultimatum, according
to official circles at Sofia. 1t Is open.
to the Turkish government to make
counter proposals.
In order to guard against unreason-
able delay, the allies proposals to the.
Turkish government were couched in
such terms as easily to permit re-.
sumption of hostilities, although such
a contingency was considered as being
unlikely.
There is growing popular agitation.
at Sofa in favor of triumphal entry
into Constantinople by King Ferdinand|
and his army. Official opinion, how
ever, is opposed to this, as it q:
thought no sentimental considerations
of glory could possibly outweigh thS
appalling danger of exposing to pestss
lence the troops exhausted by their
strenuous campaign.
Turkeys peace ENJOYS are Maxim
Pasha, commander-in-chief of tho
Turkish army; Izzet Pasha, chief Of
general staff of the war Office and late
commander-in-chief in Yemen, and
Chadan Bey, councillor of state. It is
understood that General Savoff, the.
Bulgarian leader, is one of the plent-
potentiaries of Bulgaria.
From Sofia comes report through
a semi-official agency at Vienna that
the terms offered to Turkey are not
uncompromising, either in form or in
substance, and that they even leave
the door open to modification. It Is
thought in London that this is Ncely
to be correct, as, in view of the pesti-
lence prevailing on the main battle
field, the allied nations must be
keenly anxious to remove their troops
from contact with the devastating
scourge.
The positions of both armies, it Is
considered, must rapidly become un-
tenable in face of the ravages of chol-
era, which is more deadly even than
the guns of the enemy, and this prob
ably will prove an additional motive
for arriving at an early settlement.
In the peace negotiations the Turks
are counting on the cholera to
weaken the Bulgarian ambition for
triumphal march into the capital and
the celebration of mass in the mosque
of st. Sophia
To make assurance doubly sure, the
Turk has resorted to the amazing
plan of Transforming the mosque into
a pest house and has crowded 1000
cholera stricken patients within its
walls.
1t is generally believed that the OBJ
ject of the authorities in quartering
these 1000 cholera patients in the his
toric mosque is to deter any enemies
from setting foot within the building.
The talk in the Sofia papers regarding
the celebration of a TIE Deum there
undoubtedly produced an impression
on the Turkish government, which re-
sorted to this truly Oriental expedient
hf thwartinp srch a design.