Arizona republican., 1913-01-02
Demands of Balkan Allies Are Almost All Conceded by Ottoman Delegates to Peace Conference, With Janina and Scutari
POWERS MAY
 YET TAKE HAND
Present Situation Leaves Turkey With But Islands i'll Agean Sea, Fortress of Adrianople and Territory Around Constantinople
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHI

LONDON. Jan. 1.-After protracted diplomatic skirmishing. the Turks fin ally capitulate to the majority of the demands of the Balkan allies at to- days session Of the peace conference at St. James Palace. Through Rachad Pasha they agreed to cede practically the whole of the Ottoman empires of European dOminions except Adrianople and the territory between it and Con- stantinOple, to their victorious, but despised neighbOrs. The terms the Turkish delegates presented to the con- ference as counter proposal to the de- mands of the allies were:
 First: The rectification of the Turko- Bulgarian frontier by making the boundary of the west line now occu- pied by the troops of the allies in Vil- layet Adrdnople.
 Second: The status of Adrianople to he settled by Turkey and Bulgaria di- rect
 Third: The cession of the rest of Eu- ropean Turkey, including Janina and Scutari, to the allies.
 Fourth: The Albanian and Cretan questions to be solved by the powers.
 Fifth: The Aegean islands to remain Turkish
 The announcement of these terms were wrung from the Ottoman dele gates with the greatest difficulty and came only after Rechad Pasna had re- iterated Turkeys desire to shift the re- spOneibiity for the adjudication of all the vital questions to the powers and after the representatives of the allies had registered their unchangeable ob- iections to an such course and plainly given the Turks to understand that failure of the Ottoman delegates to embark upon serious negotiations would mean a resumption of hostilities.
 Today's sitting was the most momen- tous and exciting since the beginning of the conference. The Greek premier, M Venizees presided and invited Re chad Pasha to present the Turkish counter proposals as the Turks last Monday agreed to do.
 Rechad Pasha said his interpreta- tions of the badly transmitted tele- grams of the early part of the week had been correct, his government pro- posing to submit all questions at issue. except that of Adrianople. to settle ment by the powers. This caused an outburst of indignation, which M. Ne- niZeleS was hardly able to put down. Several of the delegates shouted that it is not dignified to turn such vital matters into a joke, while others ob- served that they had not come all the way to London and remained there three weeks to hear such a proposition advanced which might have been made at the time the armistice was signed. ! When a relative calm was restored, M Vehicles. Dr. s. Daneff, leader of the l Bulgarian delegation; NJ. Novakovitch, the Servian, and NJ. Miyuskovltch, the l Montenegrin. each for his respective 1 countries. declared he would not ac- l cept the proposed mediation by the i powers and insisted on the Turkish 1 delegates present a practical proposal Rechad Pasha then announced that ! his instruction contained another al 1 ternative and requested time to form ulate it. After short recess, Rechad l Pasha stater that Turkey. desiring to l give tangible proof of her love Tor Deacp. in deference to the advice re- l ceived from the powers, was ready to make the maximum possible conceS- sions to the allies by granting the rec 1 tifications of the frontiers and by ced- ing territories westward of the line now occupied by the allies in the Fillayet ol 1 Adrianople.
 The peace conference between the | delegates of the Balkan allies and the Turkish empire settled down to real business this afternoon in spite
 If the temporary hitch caused by | Michael Madiaroff, one of the Bul-
 garian delegates who left the meeting in indignation with the declared in itention of informing the British for eign office that the war will be re- sumed by the allies. The Turkish en-
 voys when the conference reasSem-
 bled. presented in writing their new
 proposals, which are d great advance
 on the first offer. They now express
 themselves ready to have ceded ab-
 solutely Macedonia and EpiruS with
 Saloniki and also as being ready to
 discuss the question of the fortress at Adrianople and the future boun
 darv between Turkey and Bulgaria
 in the province of Thrace. They still,
 however, refuse to give up the isl
 ands in the Aegean sea and desire to
 submit the questions concerning AL
 bania and Crete to the powers The
 conference lasted today three hours
 and half and the delegates ad- l 0Contiuued on Page SeVen)