The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-03
DAY OF RELAXATION
FOR DELEGATES AT
PEACE CONFERENCE
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ter deeply into any particular question.
An exchange of communications is going
on between chancellories of the triple en-
tente and the triple alliance, while a spe-
cial understanding is developing between
Russia, Austria and Italy concerning AL
bania.
Regarding the frontiers of Albania the
ambassadors believe they will be able to
strike a proper medium between the too
restricted suggestions of the allies and
the too extended boundaries favored by
Austria.
Military operations with inferior
numbers against a victorious foe and
with an efnpty treasury are out of the
question: continues the Times. Con
sequently the Turks are mainly con-
eerned in having, not the whole vilayet
or Adrianople, but as much of it as the
allies will agree to give back and, above
all, in devising a formula that would
enable them to cede the remainder un-
der conditions as compatible as possible
with national dignity.
I'VE have reason TO believe that the
Turkish garrison at Adrianople is very
hard pressed and THAT negotiations even
have been opened for its capitulation
to the Bulgarians. Little difficulty Ia
anticipated with regard to the Aegean
Islands"
The Vienna correspondent of the
Times, referring to the denials that
Austria and Russia have discussed arm
aments, says:
There nevertheless Is strong inn
preston. which can scarcely be alto
gether unfounded that some communi-
cations on this delicate matter have
passed between Vienna and st. Peters
burg and that these governments have
assured one another of their peaceful
intentions"
Representatives of the Albanian pro-
lVisional government who have arrived
in London submitted tonight to the
ambassadorial conference a memoran-
dunn advocating the inclusion within tho
boundaries of Albania of a large extent
of territory, including Preversa. Janina
AIonastir. Uskup, Pristina, Mitrovitza
and Ipok.
According to the Times. however, the
conference is not likely to take the
Albanian question in hand seriously for
some time yet.
The Times says with reference to the
peace conference that the real diff
Guilty on the Turkish side is not so
much a question of substance as mat
ter of form and that obviously the
Turks cannot seriously hope to recover
territory held by the allies.
To Fight Epidemics
The Times says the Bulgarian gov
ernment is contracting for the services
of 70 foreign physicians to help combat
the cholera and other epidemic dis
cases. A credit of $4,000 has been
placed at the disposal of the minis
try of the interior for the same pur-
pose.
A Saloniki dispatch to the Times, un-
der date of January l. says friction has
arisen between the Greeks and Ser
vians This followed the retirement
from the Florida district of the sixth
Greek division which embarked on that
date for Epirus The servians then
crossed the temporary frontiers and oc-
cupied the villages which We're held by
the Greeks. The Greek soldiers were
disarmed and ordered to leave. A
Seryian official has arrived at Florina.
He says he has Instructions to take over
the administration of the town, but the
Greek prefect refuses to yield and the
difficulty has not been settled.
Times Optimistic
The Times says this morning in an
optimistic editorials
Nobody would be more astonished
and grieved than DIR. Daneff If the peace
negotiations were broken off. He had
no alternative proposals to make yes
terday. but we have sufficient confi-
dence in his fertile intelligence to feel
sure that long before the conference
is over he will have plenty
We should not even be surprised to
hear that many alternative formulas
for a decorous solution, with due re-
gard to Turkish suseeptibilities. of the
real problems at issue have already
been debated in the very friendly con-
versations which are notoriously going
on from day to day~behind the scenes
of the conference.
sFhe Turks claim the vilayet of
Adrianople. but that only because they
want to keep the town. There are two
possible solutions of this problem. the
Bulgarians might make a concession 10
Turkish sentiment, which all Turks
would appreciate. by leaving the city in
Turkish possession on condition that
all the Qualifications were razed or the
Turks might relinquish it, provided they
were allowed to retain full ownership
of all the historic religious monuments
and their endowments.