The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-07
GREAT POWERS
TO Intervene
in The BALKANS
Turkey and Allies Must
Otherwise Reopen Peace
Negotiations at Once
Sir Edward Grey Says Joint
Action Will Be Taken By
Ambassadors Now in Lon
don.

London, Jan. IF the Turks and
the allies do not show a disposition
to reopen negotiations Immediately,
the great powers of Europe will inter
vene. This was stated, today, in the
House of Commons by Sir Edward
Gray, secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs.
Questioned, the foreign minister ad-
nitted that the powers, through their
London ambassadors, were considering
joint action to bring about peace in
the Balkans but he declined to go into
particulars, saying that the situation
was too delicate.
That the peace p1enipotentiaries had
agreed to try again was evidenced by
the fact that the officials of St. James
Palace, this afternoon, were ordered to
prepare the picture gallery for a seE
sion of the peace conference, Friday
War in the Balkans against Turkey
will not be renewed before some time
next week, if at all The peace dele
gates of the Balkan states will give
Turkey until Saturday to request the
re-opening of the suspended negotia.-
tions, it was semi officially learned,
today. Should the Ottomans make no
move for a resumption of the peace
conference, the ENJOYS of the allies
plan themselves to call meeting OF
the conference for the purpose of for
maIly breaking off the negotiations.
That meeting could not be held be-
fore Monday.
1T is not believed in diplomatic and
military circles that war will be re-
sumed but in such an eventuality the
various states OF the Balkan alliance
will hardly get in action until two on
three days following the formal rup-
ture of the negotiations
The Turkish p1enipOrentiaries did
not retire at all, last night. From the
suspension of the conference until faI
into daylight, today they were busy
sending and receiving code despatched
to and from Conetantfnop1e.
In the meantime, it was learned, the
Balkan delegates plan to. place infor-
mallY the entire situation before the
great poHes at sthe anbassado dorial
conversation at the foreign office.
When Sir Edward Grey, foreign min
lister, called for the meeting of ambas-
sadors, it was expressly stated thai
the conversations would be informal
non-committal and unofficial. The
meeting, therefore, is without author
ity to arbitrate the Balkan tangle but
the diplomats could recommend tc
their governments that a formal am
ed formally to take up the Turkish
Balkan struggle and all other ques-
tions that are now worrying the great
powers.
The situation, today was admittedly
a critical one.
The allies will not accept the terms
offered by Turkey, yet, because they
want the good will of the powers
They do not care to assume the re-
eponsibility of re-opening hostilities
And that is exactly the way Rechid
Pasha put it, Neither side wants to
assume the responsibility of further
fighting, fearing the dispIeasure and
the refusal of war loans of the great
powers. and both, being uncertain as
to the 1eanings of the powers, hesitate
to invoke their aid as mediat tors
Hope was expressed, today, that be
tween now and Saturday the powers
by subterranean diplomacy, would
show the Sultan that AdrianopIe had
to go and that before the next meet
ing the Turkish delegates will be au-
thorized to accept practically all the
proposals of the Balkan allies.
There was no confirmation of the
dispatches from Vienna that the Tur-
fish commanders of the city and the
leaders of the besteged were in con-
sultation over AdrianopIe.