Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-02-07

that it's efforts for the maintenance of
peace will be appreciated by the great
powers. to whom these small states
have failed to pay respect by rejecting
their mediation n In allowing them
selves to turn toward Turkey without
taking account of the existence Of Flu
rope. The ottoman government has
not yet received word of the part of
Greece"
The reply by Turkey ,o the mediat-
lnR note of he powers is long and
e~vasive. ON October y. Montenegro.
one of the allies. had formally declared
wal against the Ottoman government.
On October is. the Bulgarian and Ser
Wan ministers at the various capitals
OF Europe presented II statement which
was apparently delivered prior to the
presentation of the declaration of war
against Turkey by h ministers of the
allied states at C%onstantinople on thc
same day. This note verbale To the
powers OF October is reads:
The anarchy which reigns in Tur-
Key and which SO profoundly troubles
the reD"se and security "f the neigh
boring countries having been aggra-
waited for II long time. the great pow
ers have judged ii necessary to take
in hand the realization of the reforms
provided by articles &NIIl OF the
treaty of Berlin. In response to this
last expression of the collective desire
of Europe. the sublime porte has had
recourse to a proceeding which has
served it many a time. 1t has declared
that II will apply serious reforms as
soon in Turkey in Europe as i'm it's
provinces in Asia, but that it does not
believe that foreign Interference as to
the application will be profitable to the
work of reform.
to apply serious reforms alone
has mot with everybody the distrust
of which Count AndraSsy speaks in
his note of December 30. 1876. One of
the principal causes of this distrust.
deeply ingrained. said the former
chancellor of Austria-Hungary. with
reason must be sought i'm the fact
that more than one measure announced
in he last rescripts Of the sultan has
already been proclaimed without the
lot of Christians experiencing a sensi-
BILE moderation. For 81 wears events
ticc of this Judgment. So the govern
ment of Bulgaria (of Greece or Of Ser
via). not being able longer to tolerate
the sufferings of their fellows in Tnr-
key n a situation full of dangers for
their future. have decided to demand
AN efficauio',s control for the elabora-
ton and realization of those radical re-
forms capable of a1neliorating tho mis-
cradle fate of the Christians and the
pacification of the peninsula of the Bal
kanS.
Forced to Fight.
This last attempt. the moderation
OF which contrasts with the provoca-
tive attitude of T~urkey-which had
mobilized against the Balkan states
without serious reason-having failed
and the rupture OF diplomatic relations
having been ordered by the sublime
porte, the royal governments OF Bull
garia. Greece n Scrvia have seer
themselves. to their great regret. under
the obligation of recurring to the force
Of arms. Bulgaria Greece and Servia),
finding itself from this time on in IL
state Of war with Turkey, has adj
dressed to her a formal declaration.
co~nforilably to the first article of the
convention relative to the opening VI
hostiljties of October IL. 1907.
The royal government of Bulgaria
Greece or Servia) hopes that the pur-
cides with the interests of all civilized
peoples. Foreigners residing i'm the
provinces whose pacification is the OBJ
ject of the war can only profit from
this pacification. Under a regime OF
order, liberty and progress. the nat
ional interests of all countries are Ger
tain to be protected: material pros
perity and intellectual development arc
certain of being the object of a solicit
U as constant as enlightened. So
tile roN"l government believes that it
can count on the sympathies of friend
~ nations and makes Il pressing APP
peal to tho government of his Britanie
majesty Nnutatis mutandis) not to re-
fuse it's friendly neutrality in the
heavy task which it has Just as
sumed."
The formal declaration OF war OF
October Is followed.