The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-02
MORE bLOODSHED
IS THREATENED.
II Looks as If the Balkan War Would
Be Resumed Monday, Al
most Without
Doubt.
WILL BE VERY BRIEF
According to the Belief Of the Am
bassadors Of the Various Pow.
ers Watching the
Conflict.

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United Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Feb. almost the last
doubt that the Balkan war would be.
resumed Monday evening was remov-
ed tonight by the reports from Con-
stan.inople and Sofia of the active
preparations for hostilities being
made by the Turks and by Bulgaria,
Greece, Montenegro and Seryia
But the ambassadors of the powers
professed to believe that the renewed
fighting would be very brief and that
Turkey would request the resunlp-
ton OF the peace negotiations soon
after the first battle The represen-
tatives of the Balkan alliance remain
ing in London concurred in this be-
lief of the diplomats.
The Balkan envoys stoutly main
aimed that no influence could ava
to cause the allies to modify their
present demands on Turkey, but they
We're confident that when actual war
developed, the powers would exert
pressure that would force the sub
lime porte to renew It's overtures for
peace.
Though it is admitted that no
European can hope to quite under
stand the oriental mind, and to
fathom the deep strategy of the Otto.
man empire, diplomats here tonight
thought It 70 be certain that Turkey
could not longer carry on effective
warfare. for lack OF bo:h money and
men: that the porte is bankrupt, Eu-
rope has good grounds to believe, and
| it is certain that none of the powers
will finance the empire for continued
belligerency. Since the declaration
of the armistice, Turkey has moved
across ino Europe something like
100000 troops from Asia-Minor, but
/ they are poorly drilled and not overly
well armed, and military experts .saY
they cannot cope with the soldiers of
| the allies
The experts, therefore, believe that
! Turkeys apparent determination to
| fight again, is another Ottoman bluff,
| perhaps the trump card of the porte.
/ They think that Turkey is going to
! fight. confident in the belief hat the
great powers will not tolerate further
| hostilities. The Turk, they hold, would
rather lose his European territory by
being forced to bow gracefully to the
1 will Of Europe, hen to admit defeat
at the hands OF the allies and capit,l-
I late to the demands of her enemies
I Another possibility Of the situation
I is that if the powers allow the bellir-
erents 20 begin actual warfare again,
the allies may be more amenable to
reason than they are and a deal
\ might be made whereby Turkey
could retain the moslem shrines and
mosques that made Adrianople the
Ottoman holy city. and also the
Aegean islands, commanding the Oar
4 danefles and the coas. Of Asia-Minor
The allies all have suffered heavy
losses in men and money In the wal
up to date. They have spent almost
I s2,000,00o daily maintaining theil
/. fighting forces during the armist
] Their exchequers are sadly depleted
and their population is thinned out tc
an alarming ex.ent.
!. The Balkan states have conquered
! abou.. $4,000 square miles of Turkish
i territory, but IL fighting is renewed
A they will have to hold it by force o.
j arms. 1t would require many thous
ands OF men to hold the country al
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