Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

Italian ambassadors at Constantinople.
presented to the Turkish minister of for
eign affairs on the 18th instant the joint
collective note of which Turkey had al
ready been warned
-Noradunghian Effendi promised a reply
after brief delay. and the cabinet pro-
ceeded to discuss the note In conference.
The note, in brief. invited the attention
of the imperial Ottoman government to the
grave responsibility it would assume IT, by
resistance to their counsel TO comply with
the terms of the allies, it should imperil
and perhaps extend hos
tilities to the Asiatic provinces of the
empire. In return for the csssfon of Adri-
anople the powers would endeavor to as
sure Mussulman interests.
The representatives of the allies. il
should be understood have constituted
solid bloc in their
Allies Demands demands upon Tur-
-, r,,,. key. Whatever ques-
tions which have
arisen among themselves concern a con-
ference which the allies have agreed to
hold when they have attained their pur
pose. Thus. Turkey has been foiled i'm
the beginning in a characteristic policy
Of playing one ally against the other.
policy OF divide in order to govern. The
policy of the allies has been al for one,
one for all" to the honor of the four del
egations.
The allies have demanded OF Turkey
the following territory: All that territory
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Cape Malaria. on the Black sea- south by
Strandza and ending at the port of Ro-
dosto on the sea of MaImora. which will
become BuIgaiia's outlet on that sea.
Bulgaria may obtain al the basin of
the Martha. The frontier passing west
ward by Ainadjik and Mulgara will find
an outlet IN the Gulf of Saros. leaving to
Turkey the peninsula of Gallipoli, which
viii form sort of inlet.
The allies recognize the creation of an
Independent Albania. whose frontiers will
be determined by the great powers
AS Tor the Aegean Islands it is difficult
TO determine actually their situation.
some of them having a fixed status. the
others being occupied by Italy, Il 1t is
thought preferable to demand them en-
bloc. including Crete. with the under
standing that the questions which may
be brought up concerning each will be ar
interested
A writer anonymously who is following
the incidents OF the conferences at Lon
don announces that they will be made
the subject of a yellow book which he
thinks would be more properly termed
gray book" because all that is pctur-
esque. lIfelike and true will be carefully
hidden beneath a thick covering of
tangled circumlocutions and conventional
formulas Alas. Thrice alas" ne cries,
the dull 'ripolin' of diplomatic style will
cover all. We look for men. We find
only phrases.
What a pity in effect that the yellow
blue. red and white books published by
governments should not be a reflex of ac-
tons and words of the actors in these
congresses and conferences.
The Memoirs of Prince Won Hohenlohe
is model. / have in mind above all his
chapter devoted to the
The Congress congress of Berlin
.ep.-,:. where the prince has
painted the congress in
bright colors and made of ii a joyous
comedy with his exceptional dry wit
What would Hohenlohe have said, for
example. of the breakfast given the Lon
don conference the other day by the
Duchess of Sutherland, Rechad Pasha
being seated at her right as the guest Of
honor? Rechad is Mussulman. and conse-
quently holds in holy horror pork pigs
grease in any form. Nevertheless, the
chef i'm disastrous Ignorance of the reci-
pes of Mohammed, wrote on the menu i'm
honor of the Turkish guest: Mousse de
jambon de paiX.' (Froth or foam of
ham,, The prophet defend us. That is.
defend Eechad.
Won Hohenlohe mentions Bismarck in
the Berlin congress as old, Soured and ill
humored. He disliked to be approached
for which he had special dislike. Bea-
consfield. though full of conceit was
afraid of him. Gortschakoff grunted
when he came near, but listened to
him. Bismarck is rough to English
and Russian. but to the Turk he Is
ing barked at a passing minister. he
sad: THAT animal there does not know
his business. for If he did he would have
bitten the Turk.
The congress of Berlin had its dinners,
receptions. fetes, and Hohenlohe recalls
congress of Vienna: The congress
dances and does not advance"
Holenlohe paints one of these diplo-
matte affairs thus: Tonight concert in
the geological garden i'm our honor. The
music played all the national airs. For
France it played the air of Louis XIII.
The Armenians came to salute me. Their
black caps gave them a strange appear
ance. PetrOvitch. the Montenesrin, was in
costume and had the look of a brigand.
A certain Chinese envoy with spec
tacles resembled a schoolmarm and the
two Greek secretaries, in straw hats and
recalled two little fat pigs
But to return to the present confer
ence The victory of the Balkan states.
Slav in their origin and tendencies, is a
marked deception for Austria Hungary.
She has Bosnia-HerZegovina, but this
was not the prize for which Austria has
risked much and gained little, for pow
erful Balkan empire may compel the
return of Bosnia Herzegovina to their
Slav peoples. Besides, Austria Hungary
ambition since thirty years was toward
Saloniki seaport-with COM
merc.al developments on the coast of the
Levant. Tine Mediterranean and Suez
canal and Saloniki are hopelessly lost!
The marvellous dream is dispelled the day
after the success of NJ. dAehrenthal in
the affair of Bosnia erzeaovina More
over, little Servia, which was to fall in
the same net. has not only escaped, but is
about to become a great Servia.
To these receptions there is another to
be added. the fear that, composed of so
many diverse and rival elements, the
Slav. already 60 per cent of the popua-
lion in Austria. may find in Servia a
racial attraction.
In waiting upon the logic of events il
may be said that Albania, whose fate has
wisely been directed by the am