The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-01-11
WILL SUCCUMB EITHER TO BE
SIEGING ARMY OR TO PRES
SURE OF EUROPE.
Dual Monarchy Seems TrucuIcnt i'm
spite Of Seryia's Willingness To
Give mp Demand for Port on the
Adriatic Sea-Ihis Probably Due
To Crown Prince.

rectly to the besieging forces or
through European pressure. Pending
some fresh development the delegates
of the allies to the Turkish Balkan
peace conference are keeping in close
touch with the ambassadors because
they are aware that some Of the
questions they have most at heart de-
| pend almost entirely on the will Of
the powers.
Meanwhile the ambassadorial con-
ference is doing little, hoping that the
Adrianople difficulty will solve itself
in some manner and thus make inter-
ference by the powers unnecessary.
Moreover the action of the am
| bassadors is hampered by previous
agreement that they must be unani-
nous in any decision requiring active
Intervention. Should the fall Of Ad-
rianople still be delayed now that the
| conference is suspended, it might be-
come imperative for Europe to inter-
vene; otherwise Europe would lose the
prestige emitting her to dictate her
Will in smaller matters, such as Gre
ating an autonomous Albania and par
titioning the Aegean islands.
One suggestion is that, failing a
better solution, Adrianople might be
| ceded to the powers, who could trans
| fer it to the allies after permitting the
Turkish garrison to depart with the
honors of war and guaranteeing other
conditions, as the reservation Of prop
erty rights to the Turks and the Gre
| alton Of -tain courts for the trial
sulmans.
Some Of those among the advanced
section of the allies delegates are of
the opinion that now that they have
paved the way for the expulsion of
Turkey from Europe, the powers
ought to complete the work of remov-
ing Islam from Constantinople and
Transforming the Turkish capital into
an autonomous city under European
control and that they should study
some system with the object of giving
real civilized government to Asia
Minor. If such steps are not taken,
they declare, ere long there will be a
repetition in Asia Minor of what has
just occurred in the Balkans.
The allies, especially the Servians
and Montenegrins, are amused at the
sensitiveness the Turks displayed at
the sudden suspension of the last sit
ting Of the peace conference by the
presiding officer, NJ. Novokovitch, and
their insistence that strict etiquette
should be observed. The allies re-
mark that Turkey seems to have for
gotten the contemptuous manner in
which she treated the Balkan states
and their diplomatic representatives
before the war.
One of the graveSt aspects of the
situation, as unbiased observers view
it, is the failure Of Austria to give any
sign of demobilization in spite of
Servia's sacrifices for q peaceful So
luton, Servia even going so far as to
evacuate the Adriatic coast. Austrias
action, in the opinion of some, is ex-
planned by the fact that Emperor
Francis Joseph, owing to his advanced
hoc
rection of affairs to the crown prince.
The prince is entirely in the hands
Of the most reactiOnary elements who
are strongly opposed to the resurrec-
ton of the Servian and Slav races
and, wishing to take advantage of
Europe's desire to avoid a great war,
are imposing unjust conditions on
both Scrvia and Montenegro.
Intense irritation has been caused
among the Bulgarian peace delegates
by a report that Greek troops have
been landd in the vicinity Of the port
of Kavala, on the Aegean sea, and
that force of Greek sailors has been
sent nOrthWard TO Drama.
DR.. S. Daneff, chief Bulgarian en-
voy, made prompt representation to
Premier VeneZelos of Greece on the
subject. The Bulgarians point out
that the Greeks have not the slightest
right to interfere III that district,
which was conquered solely by the
Bulgarans, and that TO send troops
there after the BulgarianS had with
drawn in order to concentrate their
entire army at the Tchatalja lines is
considered a gratitous affront.
POWERS CAN'T AGREE ON AEGE-
AN ISLANDS.
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