The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-02
TURKEY HAS LITTLE LEFT
Terms Turkey Would Agree to Was Wrunq From the Ottoman Repre- aentatives With the Greatest
 Difficulty.


 Turks finally capitulated to major. ity of the demands of the Balkan allies at today's session of the peace con ference in St James palace They agreed to cede practically the whole of the Ottoman empires European dominions, except Adrianople and the territory bstween it and Constanti- nople to their victorious but tradi- despised neighbors.
 The terms the Turkish delegates presented to the conference as a counter proposal to the demands of the allies were:
 The rectification of the Turko-Bul- garian frontier by making the boun- diary west of the line now occupied by the troops of the allies in the Vilayet of Adrianople.
 The question of the status of Ad -ianople to be settled by Turkey and Bulgaria direct.
 The cession of the remainder of Erg opean Turkey, including Janina and Scutari, to the allies.
 The Albanian and Cretian ques- tions 10 be solved by the powers.
 The Aegean Islands to remain Turk ish.
 The announcement of these terms was wrung from the Ottoman dele gates with the greatest difficulty. They came only after Rechad Pasha aad reiterated Turkeys desire to shift responsibility for adiudicating all the vital questions to the great powers and the representatives of the allies had registered their un- changeable objections to such a course and plainly had given the Turks to understand that the fail ure of the Ottoman delegates to em- bark upon serious negotiations would mean resumption of hostilities. To- days sitting was the most momen- tons and exciting since the beginning of the conference. The Greek pre- mier. NJ. Venizelos. presided and in vited Rechad Pasha. to present the Turkish counter proposals, as the Turks last Monday had agreed to do
 Rechad said his interpretation of the badly transmitted telegrams of the early week had been correct, his government proposing to submit all questions at issue except Adrianople to settlement by the powers. This caused an outburst of indignation which NJ. Venizelos was hardly able to put down. Several of the dele gates shouted that it was not digni- fled to turn such matters into a joke, while others observed that they had not come all the way to London and remained here for three weeks to hear a proposition advanced which might have been made at the time the armistice was signed.
 When relative calm was restored, M. Venizelos, Dr. s. Daneff leader of the Bulgarian: NJ. Novakovitch, Ser yian, and M Miyuskovitch. Montene- grin. each for their respective coun- tries, declared they would not accept the proposed mediation by the powers and insisted that the Turkish dele gates present practical and defined proposal.
 Rechad then announced that his in- structions contained another alter native, and requested time to formu- late it. After a short recess, Reehad stated that Turkey, desiring to give tangible proof of her love for peace, in deference to advice received from ahe powers, was ready to make the maximum of possible concessions to the allies by granting a rectification of the frontiers, ceding the territories westward of the line occupied by the allies in the vilayet of Adrianople to them
 M. Daneff said it would be impos- sible for Bulgaria to renounce her claim to the possession of Adrlanople and he could not accept such an inde- finite offer M. Venizelos said the proposal of Turkey must declare ex- plicitly that the question of Adria- nople must be settled independently ater He added that the proposed compromise should even include ter ritory not yet occupied by the allies, citing as an instance Jania. NJ. Miyuskovitch made a similar claim on behalf of Montenegro concerning Ccutari
 Rechad then said the translation of his communication had not yet been finished but that the first part of it naturally meant the cession of Janina and Scutari He added that the question of Albania and Crete should be solved by the powers who already had taken up the matter.
 Several delegates then asserted that this meant Turkeys renuncia-