The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-12
TURKEY REiTERATES THAT SHE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
 ADRlANOPLE TO ALLIES.
WOULD GIVE ALL ELSE FIRST
Europe Still Pressing Ottoman Gov ernment to Yield--Roumania is
 Taking Another View of Her
 Recent Exorbitant Demands.

London, Jan 11.-Diplomacy still is busy seeking solution for the Bal kan deadlock. Fears that the peace conference will end in failure and the allies will take up arms again are stronger tonight than at any hour since .he plenipotentiaries came to 1 London.
 Unless Adrianople should fall with ! in two or three days, or something should turn up." which none of the diplomats can foresee, it appears probable the delegates will leave hngalnd before the end of another week.
 A note from the powers will be pre- sented to the Ottoman government Monday. It is firm in tone, and while recommending Turkey to leave the question of the Aegean Islands in the hands of the powers, makes it clear that Turkey has no alternative except 10 cede Adrianople.
 Another note was prepared by the ambassadors at Constantinople but will be superseded by the collective communication decided upon ,at Fri days meeting between Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, and the ambassa- dors As 1t is necessary to telegraph the text of this note to the continen- tai capitals for approval it cannot be delivered before Monday.
 All the ambassadors today had sep arate informal meetings with llechad Pasha and Osman Maxim Pasha, the Turkish delegates, trying as one of the ambassadors put it, ito square the circles" and to discover mid dle course between Turkey, which in- sists upon keeping Adrianople and Bulgaria which persists that she must have that town.
 The Turkish delegates were im- movable and said:
 "Nothing can induce us to commit | suicide It is impossible to change our minds concerning the possession of Adrianople, for which we have made sacrifices which no other coun- try has made. The sentimental and religious value attached by Mgss.il- men to AdTianople can be calculat- ed by our having renouneed four-fifths of our European territory only be- cause We wished to keep the holy l city In all the history of wars there is no example of such generous and Important concessions as those which we have made 10 the allies; SO their greediness causes a natural reaction.
 "If the war is resumed the allies may find that they have miscalculat- ed their forces and minimized those of Islam. They have looked through biased glasses at their first success, which were due to the fact that we
 were attacked by surprise, not ex- 1 pecting the enemy was prepared for war"
 The position of the powers is most difficult because all their delibera- tions are invalid unless by unanimous consent. The note was agreed upon for the reason that although Turkey complains that the powers did not keep their word that even the war should not change the status quo in the Balkans, the powers were able to answer that the fault was Turkeys, which for S4 years found no way to put into effect article 23 of the Der lin treaty, concerning reforms in European Turkey.
 The note amounts to practically . nothing more than advice. Other measures suggested during the inter- national conferences. have not been accepted, because they failed of unani nous support, the objections being due chiefly b desire on the part of some of the powers to maintain the promised neutrality.
 Such was the fate of the much-dis- cussed naval demonstration Besides being an evident breach of Neutral ity, it raised the question as to what the powers could do if Turkey re- fused to yield Would 1t be possible to pass from moral to active coer- coin? Would any one power o~ all the powers undertake the work? Would 1t be possible to repeat in Europe in the twentieth century what the allied European forces did in China in 1900Y
 These and other questions were considered by the ambassadors who found no satisfactory answer. The Turkish delegation openly declares it
 knows that the porte will not be moved by the powers note and will
 answer with stronger refusals than heretofore
 What did Germany ask Of France when she occupied Paris and pro- lclaimed the German empire there in