Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-01-18
TURKS DECLARE
POWERS ARE
DOUBTFUL
AMBASSADOR FROM LAND OF OTTO
MAN TO GERMAN EMPIRE SAYS
THAT EUROPE HAS BROKEN ITS
PROMISES IN CONFLICT.
MONTENEGRO IS
FIRM IN STAND

The Ottoman governments S reply
to the note of the European powers,
which was presented to the Porte by
the ambassadors at Constantinople,
yesterday, will be a refusal to yield
the fortress of Adrianople and the
adjoining territory to the Balkan al
lies, according to a private dispatch
received in London this afternoon
from the Turkish capital.
The reply, it is understood, from
the same source Of information, will
be conciliatory on the other points in
dispute and will intimate Turkeys
readiness to resume peace negotia-
tions in London on this basis.
It is expected that the reply will be
delivered on Monday, when with the
note of the powers. it will be stimuli
taneously issued broadcast at Con-
stsntinople for the information Of the
public. The delegates in London OF
the Balkan allied nations say that If
this forecast of the Turkish reply is
confirmed by events it means re-
sumption of the war.
London Jan. 1S.-Osman Miami
uasha, Turkish ambassador to Ger
many, now here in connection with
the peace negotiations, issued a state
1nent today bitterly arraigning the
European powers for their attitude in
the Joint note delivered to the porte.
-Four months ago., he said, Europe
proclaimed it's determination to main
tain the state Of things existing be-
fore the war, whatever the result oil
the conflict might be. Now the pow
ers are making open illusions to the
possible loss by Turkey of Constan
tinople, and some Of the Asiatic prov
inces.
What reliance can Turkey place
on the powers promise to exclude
all menace to the security of Turkey;
when Europe has just given tangible
evidence of how little her promises
are worth"
with such evidence of European
sympathy" he added, nobody could
consider the porte too eXacting if it
asked for an explanation of what the
powers mean by moral and material
support so lavishly promised in the
anbassadorial note.
"The same can be said about the
powers promise concerning the is
ting for the sake of argument that
Turkey is ready to yield these islands
how can she cade them to the powers
cn this, the simple promise that their
settlement will exclude all menace to
the security of Turkey; when
Europe's promise mean SO little?"
The greatest reserve is maintained
by the Turkish plenipotentiaries in
regard to the note handed to the OF
toman government. All discussion of
the merits Of the document is avoided
by them on the ground that the porte
alone has all the elements for an eX-
haustive judgment.
The delegates of the Balkan allies.
as whole, are relatively satisfied
with the situation, but they do not
believe the end of the negotiations
is near, as the porte is not likely to
give categorical answer to the note
Of the powers.
The Greeks hope to be able to dem
cnstrate to the powers that Greece
can occupy the. islands, giving such
guarantees as will secure the execu-
tion of the will of Europe, namely to.
exclude all menace to the security OF
Turkey in the future.
The Montenegrn government in
long note addressed to the powers to-
day relative to the delimination of
Albania declares that the annexation
of Scutar, Ipek and Jakova by Mon
tenegro is necessary to that king
doms security and political and econ
omic development, and rather than re-
nounce this logical and natural ag-
erandisement of its territory, Monte
negro would prefer to disappear as
political factor in the Balkans
ANOTHER NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
Athens, Greece, Jan. 1S-Another
sea fight between the Greek and the
Turkish fleets occurred today about
tweEty miles to the south of the en-
trance to the Dardanelles The Greek
war vessels attacked the Turkish
squadron and forced the Ottoman
warships to return to the Dardanelles
straits in disorder The Turkish flag
ship is said to have suffered consid-
erably.
CRUISER MAKES A RAID. 49,
Concantinople, Jan. 1S.--The Turk.
ish cruiser Hamidieh, after carrying
out a raid on the Greek island Of
Smyrna, the commercial center OF
the Cyclades in the Greek archipel
ago, arrived at Beirut today