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WANTS TO GIVE UP NOTHING
ASSERTS THE EUROPEAN Ma.
TIoNs PROMISED TERRITORY
WOULD NOT BE MoLEsTEo
ATTITUDE IS REMARKABLE
FAILS TO EXPLAIN WHETHER OR
NOT THE WcToRs SHOULD
HAVE RIGHT TO sPoHs.

London, Jan. 1S.-Osman Miami
Pasha, Turkish ambassador to Ger
many, now here in connection with
the peace negotiations, issued Il state
ment today bitterly arraignllg the
European powers for their attitude
in the joint note delivered to the
Porte.
Four months age" he said, "Eu-
rope proclaimed its determination to
maintain the state Of things existing
before the war. whatever the result
of the conflict might be. Now the
powers are making open allasions TO
the possible loss by Turkey of Con-
stantinople and some Of the Asiatic
provinces.
What reliance can Turkey place
on the powers promise to exclude
all menace to the security Of 1ur-
key when Europe has just given tam
gible evidence of how little her prom
ises are worth"
with such evidence of European
sympathy" he added, nobody could
consider the Porte too exaeting If it
asked for an explanation of what the
powers mean by moral and material
support so lavishly promised in the
ambassadorial note.
"The same can be said about the
powers promise concerning the is
lands in the Aegean Sea. Even admit.
ting for the sake of argument that
Turkey is ready to yield these is
lands, how can she cede them to the
powers on this, the simple promise
that their settlement will exclude all
menace to the security of Turkey,
when Europe's promises mean SO lit
tle?" ~
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
demonstrate to the powers that
Greece can occupy the islands, giving
such guarantees as will secure the ex.
ecution of the win of Europe, namely,
to exclude all menace to the security
Of Turkey in the future The Monte
negrin government in a long note
addressed to the powers today rela-
tive to the alignment of Albania,
declares that the annexation Of scu.
tari, Ihek and Jakova by Montenegro
is necessary to that kingdoms secur-
ity and political and economic devel-
opment, and rather than renounO
this logical and natural aggrandizs
ment of It's territory. Montenegro
would prefer to disappear as a politi
cal factor in the Balkans.
Turkey Refuses to Yield
The Ottoman governments reply to
the note Of the European powers.
which was presented to the Porte by
the ambassadors at Constantinople,
will be a refusal to yield the fortress
Of Adrianople and the adjoining terri
tory to the Balkan allies, according
to a private dispatch received IN Lon.
don this afternoon from the Turkish
capital
The reply. II is understood from the
seme source Of information. will be
conciliatory on the other points ii dle.
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