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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-01-03
BOTH ARE STUBBORN
RECHAD PASHA CALLS PEACE.
TERMS VERY ABSURD.
WON'T CEDE TERRITORY.
Says Porte Signed Armistice Only OFT
Advice of Powers.-Servians
Score Victory.

London, Dec 2S.-Both the Turks
and the Balkan allies are standing by
their guns on the peace terms. Both
declare that it is impossible to recedo
from their positions.
The exchange of cipher dispatches
between the administration at Con-
stantinOple and Rechad Pasha con-
tinues, but the chief of the Turkish
plenipOtentiares declines to divulge
the nature of the reply he will present
to the allies Saturday when the con-
ference reassembles at st. James pal
ace.
Explains Turkish Attitude.
While | cannot discuss the reply
of the Ottoman government" said
Rechad Pasha, nothing prevents me
from saying that the terms the allies
have proposed are simply absurd. They
have produced this impression wher-
ever heard, even outside of Turkish
circles. 1t was never known that aft
er the conclusion of an armistice one
belligerent party could ask the other
to concede territories bravely defend
ed and still resisting with heroism.
Why should we do this, especially
when the Bulgarians had three re-
verses at our hands just before the
armistice, while the Greeks, who con.
tinued to fight, were defeated both on
land around Janina and at sea off the
Dardaneles?
Turkey was induced to accent an
armistice only on the advice of the
powers. in order to avoid useless car
mage on both sides. The same humani-
tartan circumstances led the Ottoman
government to ask for the revietualling
of the besieged towns, and might in
duce the government to yield certain
conditions for the sake of peace But
there is limit which the allies have
far surpassed"
Allies Contention.
The allies, on the other hand, assert
that the armistice was arranged to
give Turkey an opportunity of making
peace terms without suffering further
losses in the field, and they character
ize Turkeys talk of keeping Adrian
ople, Janina and Scutari and regain
ing Saloniki as simpiy laughable. Gen
eral Danglias, the Greek chief of gen.
eral staff, said:
Let them come and take Saloniki
If they can Even the dust of our an
cient heroes would rise up to defend
our rights"
The most optimistic of the Turkish
military party profess confidence that
the Bulgarians vii; never be able to
force the Tchatalja lines, but, that, on
the contrary, with her present power
full army, Turkey will free Adrianople
in fortnight, and adding that garri-
son to the main body. will take the
offensive toward Philppopolis and
SalOnika
Servians Score Victory.
LOndon.-A Durazzo dispatch to the
Times under date Of Dec % says.
After four days of fighting in the
district between Baba and Daitchi. 10
miles north Of Aless;o, The Turks were
driven out of the neutral zone on Fri
day. They lost several hundred kill
ed and wounded. while the Servian
casualties numbered 200
"A Greek steamer has brought to
Durazzo great quantities of war stores
and II guns from Saloniki for the
ServianS at Alesecco"