Arizona republican., 1913-01-13
Fears Are Now Expressed That the Peace Confer ence Will End in Failure and the Delegates Return Home
POWERS HAVE
 NOTE READY
This it is Believed Will Ad- wise Ceding of Adrian ople Although Turkey Be ieves She Has Made Every Possible Sacrifice
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArCHl

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Diplomacv is still busy seeking a solution of the Balkan deadlock. The fears that the peace conference will end in failure and that the allies will take up arms again is stronger tonight than at any hour since the plenipotentiaries came to London. Unless Adrianople should fall within two or three days. or something should turn up," which none of the diplomats can foresee, il appears probable that the delegates will leave England before the end of another week
 A note from the powers is to be presented to the Ottoman government tomorrow. It is firm in tone. and While recommending Turkey to leave the question of the Aegean islands in the hands of the powers it makes it clear to Turkey that there is no al- formative except to cede AdrianoDle
 Another note prepared by the aan- bassadors from Constantinople. but to be superseded by a collective com munication, was decided upon at Fri days meeting between Sir Edward Grey. British secretary of foreign af- fairs, and the ambassadors. Since
 
 text of this note to the continental capitals for approval, it will be de- livered before Monday
 All the ambassadors have had sep arate informal meetings with Rechad Pasha and Osman Nazam Pasha, the Turkish delegates. trying. as one 1 ambassador put it. to square the circle" and to discover middle course between Turkey, which insists on keeping Adrianople. and Bulgaria. which insists she must have the town.
 The Turkish delegates are immov- able and have said:
 Nothing will induce us to commit suicide. It is impossible to change our minds concerning the possession of Adrianople, for which We have made sacrifices that no other coun- try has made. The sentimental and religious value attached by Mussul- mans to Adrianople are to be cal culated by our having renounced four-f of our European territory, 1 only because we wished to keep the | holy city. In all the history of wars there is no example of such generous and important concessions as those we have made to the allies. so their greediness causes natural reac- | tion.
 If war is resumed the allies may 1 find they have miscalculated their | forces and minimiZed those of Islam. I They have looked through biased 1 glasses at their first successes. which were due to the fact that we were surprised by the attack. and were not expecting an enemy prepared for 1 war
 The position of the powers is diff cult because the deliberations are in valid unless by unanimous consent | The note was agreed upon for the reason that although Turkey com plains that the powers will not keep 1 their word and that even war should 1 not change the status quo of the 1 Balkans, the powers are unable to answer that the fault was Turkeys. as Turkey for thirty-four years, has 1 found no way to put into effect ar 1 ticle 22 of the Berlin treaty concern
 ing the reforms in European Turkey.
 The note practically amounts to
 nothing more than advice. Other measures suggested during the in
 ternational conference have not been
 accepted because they failed of unanimous support. the objections 1 being due chiefly to a desire on the 1 part of some of the powers to main l tain the promised neutrality.
 Such was the fate of the much discussed naval demonstrations. Be- sides that it is evident that breach 1 of neutrality has raised the question I of what the powers could do if Tur- key refused or yielded. It would be possible to pass from moral to an active coercion Would any power or all the powers undertake the work? Would it be possible to repeat in Europe in the twentieth century what the allied European forces did to China in 1900?
 These and other questions nave been considered by the ambassadors, who have found no satisfactory an
 sWers The Turkish delegates have openly declared they know the porte will not be moved by the powers
 note and will answer with stronger
 refusal than heretofore.
 The allies are becoming impatient with inaction Some desire more resolute attitude The feeling m Sofia favors the recall of the dele
 gates. but some are inclined to re- main a few days, awaiting the effect of the powers note.