The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-11
Turks WILL QUIZ
BEFORE YIELDING
AOR|ANOPLE
Ottoman Government EnCOurag-
ed by Rumania's Threat
Pow Frs ARE WAITING
Rumania Believed to Be Supported
BY Austria in Threatening
Attitude.

London. Jan 1.-THE pendulum Oh
peace in the Balkans swings between
the fall of Adrianople and the action
by the powers of Europe. ADVICE
suggestions, good offices, pressure
and friendly offers-all that olplo-
matte Technology has been aole "
inyent-have been attempted pS 'ho
nowers TO bring the conflicting part
les 10 terms over Adrianople, but ti'H
reluctance Of Turkey to cede lhe
aholy city, is only surpassed by inc
determination of the allies 10 "lu
their point to have it included III lhe
territory of Bulgaria. ,,o
several socalled intermediate
courses for solving the problem Wy
neither entirely separating Auria-
nonle from Turkey nor entirely CAV,
no II IN bulgaria have been refused
by both sides. AS an lndlcaeioh VI
the stand the allies have taken III nc
PREMISES one of the Bulgarian uele-
gates said at London YESTERDAY
| sAdrianople is the Alsace Lorraine
of our war" Turkey hopes that she
NAV he able to save Adrianople uu-
| donbtedlv have been revived by the
| threatening attitude of Rumania. III
| tbis attitude Rumania is believed 10
he hacked by Austria as otherwise
she would not urge her claim SO en-
ergetically against Bulgarian IN con
| trast with the pacific position she
| had assumed fortnight ago
The powers are awaiting the result
NJ the concentrations to be made 10
the Constantinople government ny
their ambassadors in the Ottoman sl
capital. Their note probaoly WIN oe
| deliveded Monday to the turkish gov
eminent. The embassadoHal CONFER
ence met at the foreign office In Lon
don Yesterday but the only informal
| ton given out concerning the meet
ing was that it had arrived at no
| imnortant decision and had been al
ionrned until Monday. The embassa'
doris would not confirm the repor 3
that naval demonstration had beeu
MANNED az a last resort to bring pres
sure to bear upon Turkey.
The threat of Turkey to Withdraw
her peace delegates from Lohuon
early next week if the allies refuse
further compromise in their demailis
was discussed at yesterday sltl's
of the ambassadors, but was not con
sidered a serious one. The delegates
of the allies have replied to Turkey
with a counter-threat that they ~
give all necessary notice OF term
nation of the armistice now In euec
in southeastern Europe if the turks
leave the peace conference.
Considerable hopes have been en-
tertained that the dinner given II
London Thursday night by Paul Can
hon. the French ambassador, TO TN
, delegates to the peace conference
and at which the Turks and allie
met for the first time on neuua
ground. would furnish the occasion
for friendly conversations whlcl
would break the ice OF the deadlock
but the delegates failed to unben
from strict formality and. the affair l
described as having been cold an
stiff. The Marquis lmperiali, tn
Z. Italian ambassador to Great Brltali
will give a luncheon in honor of tn
, Turks today.
: NJ. Venizelos, the leader of tn
- Grek delegation to the peace conieI
ence. and all his Greek compatriou
are up in arms against any serious q
tempt being made to prevent Greco
annexing all the Turkish island
The declaration yesterday that the
grief and indignation over this phas
2 of the situation had been augmente
e by confirmation that the initiative fC
4 keeping the islands away frol
= Greece had come from Italy, whic
{ country they considered their su
q porter in the triple alliance an
!. which. since it had become unite
A had stood as the champion of a
o national causes.