Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-31
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uthcy lSHy. 10 TIE EOHelS Was
handed to- the ambassadors at Con-
stantinople today. 1t proposes to give
the Allies half of Adrianople, retaining
the Holy City section, where the Mos
lem shrines are located. 1t declines
to surrender the Aegean Sea Islands
or seaports and proposes that the stat
us of the government of these islands
be left to the Powers. The note sug
gests the distribution of $4,000 square
miles of conquered territory in Euro
pean Turkey be Also left to the Pow
ers. Confirmation of reports that
bloody fighting is in progress among
the Turks at Tehatalja was obtained
today in dispatches from Constantine.
These say that many officers and men
have been killed and that more than
two hundred have been wounded. Com
menting on Turkeys reply to the Pow
ers, Premier Venizelos of Greece today
said: My information is that the
Porte proposes to leave to the Powers
the disposition of all the Aegean ISL
ands, except those nearest the Turkish
coast, which they will refuse to cede.
IF correct, this is unsatisfactory.
Greece fought hard for: the Aegean ISL.
ands and Ve are pledged to get
them" Doctor Daneff, chief Bulgar-
ian envoy, said: THE present de-
mands of the Allies will not be re-
newed After the first shot is fired, if
war is resumed, our demands will be
larger than ever"
The British government has not
reached a decision on the question of
resuming negotiations for the ratifi-
cation of the Ans1o-American arbitra4
ton treaty which Secretary Knox
some time ago declared the United
States was prepared to ratify. "The
whole United States note will be care
fully considered,s said Secretary Ed
ward Grey, "befdre any reply is sent
to Washington"
Recent slides of earth and rock into
the Culebra Cutaw make necessary
great activity if The Panama Canal is
to be opened betore the end ,of the
year, as has been predicted by Colonel
Cocktails. More Ethan half a billion
yards of earth and rock have fallen
into this cut this month, and the en-
gineers fear another impending break
at Purple Hill will add not less than
one million yards.
In the house Of lords, the Home Rule
bill was rejected by a most emphatic
vote. This action upon the part of
the lords was expected.
Shouting traitor and coward" as
they charged through crowd gath
cred in Dundee, Scotland, to hear Pre-
mier Asquith, group of militant suf-
fragettes tried I'd mob the premier, fol-
lowing a warm WELCOME given him,
and were roughly hustled to the street.
The mayor of the city had Just intro
duced the premier when the suffra-
gettes appeared They made a con-
certed rush for the rostrum, but were
interrupted by the police and despite
the hot fight, in which nail-scratching
was a feature they were bundled out
in no gentle manner. During the
height of the affray one suffragette
climbed on the rail of the balcony i'm
the hall and prepared to jump on the
heads of those below. when a man
sitting near seized her and dragged
her back, scrambIing and fighting.
President Taft, in his farewell
speech to the Ohio Society of Wash
ington, last night, vigorously attacked
the bill now pending in Congress
granting autonomy and independence
in eight years for the Philippines rs
it possible" asked the president,
that the Democratic party is going to
rescind a policy that has vindicated
itself by ter years experience, merely
for the purpose of adhering to the
cobwebbed planks of forgotten plat
form?'
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