Elk City mining news., 1913-07-31
THE WAR SITUATION
WHILE TURKEY BALKAN FORCES
ARE TRYING FOR PEACE,
OTHERS FOR WAR.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY take A HAND
Enabling Turkeys Army to Retire
With Honors of War and to
Keep Her Line of Forts.

London.-Interest in the war situa-
ton has shifted from the belligerents,
whose delegates are preparing to meet
with an. apparent sincere desire to
work out the terms for a truce, to
the great neighborhood powers-Aus-
tria and Russia. These rivals are
Strengthening their border forces at an
hour when the statesmen of all~the
powers are spreading broadcast assur-
ances that their only policy is to sub
ordinate rivalries and interests to the
common welfare of Europe in the
cause of peace.
Countries Adopting War Footing.
Reports of the Russian mobilization
specify that all the military districts
on the frontier-Vilna, Warsaw, Kiev
and Odessa, as we'll as Moscow-are to
adopt war footing; the Don Cossacks
are to be pushed to the border and the
preparations in Russian Poland in
clude the dispatch of an enormous
number of trains with troops toward
the Austrian line.
Three Berlin papers purport to have
information of the Austrian prepara-
tions, which include the mobilization
of three army corps for the Russian
frontier and reenforcements for Bos-
mia, while from Prague an account is
telegraphed of German military ac-
tivity.
Such warlike preparations, coupled
with the visit of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, crown prince of Austria
Hungary, to the German emperor, and
the recent conference which the Aus
trian chief of staff, Field Marshal Won
Schomua, had with Lieutenant General
Count Won Moltke, chief of the Ger
man general staff, naturally excites
acute curiosity.
Dispatches from Frankfort and Ber-
lin place a peaceable construction on
the archduke's journey to Berlin. They
say his mission was to induce the en-
peror to mediate between Austria and
Russia.
To Talk Peace.
Mutual diplomacy on the part of the
respective administrations at Constan-
tinople and Sofia gives promise that
the meeting of the plenipotentiaries
which is expected to take place out
side the Tchatalja lines will prove
successful. Turkey has appointed
three additional delegates, but has in
sisted that the Balkan states must
modify their conditions as a ground
work for the meeting.
Servia met this condition promptly
Inspired statements declare that Bull
garia is willing that the Turks shall
retain the Tchatalja lines, which
should satisfy both parties, since it
saves Turkish pride the ignominy of a
march into the capital, while it shields
Bulgaria from the Russian official dis
pleasure which her entry into Con-
stantinople will incur.
The allies are willing to grant an
other concession in the matter of
Adrianople. Although insisting upon
the surrender of the citidel, they will
permit the garrison to retire with the
honors of war.
Will Care for Cholera Victims.
Constantinople.- the Red
Crescent volunteers have failed to take
up the work of relief the Rev. Robert
Freew, Scotch pastor in CONSTANT
nople, and Miss Alt, 60 years old, who
for many years has been connected
with English and American mission
work in Turkey, have taken quarters
in the cholera camp and will devote
themselves to the care of victims.
Rumor of Weeks Armistice.
London.-The correspondent of the
Daily Express asserts that an armistice
for a week was actually concluded and
that both sides agreed to suspend
bringing up reinforcements.