Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-30
NOTE OF ALLIES
. IS DELIVERED
10THE0TT0MAN
Servian Member Bearer of
Balkan Statement; Ger
many Sounds Warning to
Keep Hands Off. r

London, Jan. 29.-The note drafted
by the peace delegates of the allies
was delivered by Stojan Novakovitch,
head Of the Servian delegation, to
Rechad Pasha today.
The factor impelling this action
was the receipt of reports of grave
ferment among the Turkish troops on
the Tachatalja lines, many of which
appear to be unwilling to follow the
lead of the Young Turks.
1t is considered here that in view
OF the international complications in
Turkey, Mahmoud Shefket Pasha. the
new grand vizier, may yield before
the energetic act of the allies.
The gravity of the situation in Con-
stantinople is shown by the large
naval forces concentrated by the Flu
ropean powers at the entrance to the
Dardanelles. Even Austria-Hungary,
which had refused to join the other
powers in naval coercive measures,
has now ordered two warships to be
ready to start for the east.
Look for Peace in Europe.
While the clouds are gathering
over Constantinople, the astronomers
who make a study of the European
armament, consider that the general
peace of Europe is no longer in dam
ger. AS proof they point out that
Italy has just disbanded an army Of
100000 soldiers who served in
Tripoli.
Rechad Pasha expressed the hope
that the powers, realizing the unjust
treatment which has been inflicted
on Turkey would help the porte to
surmount it's present difficulties,
thus insuring the definite political
eastern problem" .& .
Several members of the Bulgarian
peace mission left London today, in
cluding T. Theodoroff, the Bulgarian
minister of finance, and Lieut.. Team
off, a graduate of Harvard, who has
been acting as attache and Is return
ing to his regiment
Germany Says "Hands Off,"
Constantinople, Jan. 29.-"Hands
off all the Turkish possessions in
ASIA" was Germany's pointed notif1-
cation today to every one concerned.
1t was given by the German ambas-
sador to Turkey in a speech at the
Teutonic clubs annual dinner in hon
or of Emperor Williams birthday.
"The future of Turkey lies in Asia
Minor" Baron Hans Won Wangen-
helm told an enthusiastic gathering
of his compatriots.
He continued: ...1
"The German interests in Asia
Minor are very great and are bound
up with those of Turkey. The recent
note of the European promised that
Turkey would be aided in her future
development. Germany will lend pow
erful assistance in this cause.
"In any case, however, to all the
Turkish possessions in Asia Minor
Germany will attach this label:
Touch me not!"
Declare Conference at End.
The text of the note handed by the
Balkan delegates to Rechad Pasha to-
day was as follows
"The plenipotentiaries of the allied
Balkan states, having since the sus-
pension of the work Of the peace con-
ference awaited in vain for three
weeks the reply of the Ottoman pleni-
potentiaries to their last demands,
and events which have occurred in
Constantinople appearing to have
destroyed hope of arriving at the con-
clusion of peace, are to their great re-
gret obliged to declare that the peace
negotiations commenced in London
on December is last are broken Off"
The note does not denounce the
armistice. This will devolve on the
governments Of the Balkan states
when they consider the moment OPP