BALKAN WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 7

BALKAN WAR.

CONFERENCE ON MONDAY. THE AUSTRIAN ENIGMA. B» Teleeraoh—Fresfl Association—Conyrlchl London, December 11. The Peace Conferenco opens on Monday. The Minister for Foreign Affnirs, Sir Edward Grey, speaking in the House of Commons, said ho hoped tho Ambassadors would meet next week in consultation. Ho gave a non-committal indication I that tho Powers were uncertain that a solution of all difficulties was in sight. On tho other hand, tho agreement to consult was evidence that a solution was not impossible. Some of tho newspapers indicate that Austria enters tho Ambassadors' Conference with reservations. They belittlo tho warliko news from Vienna, however, and state that mobilisation must be restricted to two corps, as only 550,000 men are under the Hag. SERVIA'S DEMANDS. (Rcc. December 13, 0.15 a.m.) Paris, December 12. The Prime Minister, M. Poincare, has received M. Novakoviteh, tho Servian delegate' to the Peace Conference, and he was afterwards interviewed by the "Temps." M. Novakoviteh stated that Servia insisted on the possession of a port in the Adriatic. Servians were unable to explain tho puzzling and disquieting attiture of Austria-Hungary, but despite the Austrian menace, Servia was leaving her troops in Turkey. A CAPTURED CORRESPONDENT. London, December 11. Mr. Angas Hamilton, a newspaper correspondent, who has returned to London, tells an extraordinary story of his treatment after capture by the Bulgarians. . His captors refused to believe that he was a correspondent. He was bound with ropes and woj) kept without food for hours. The officers stripped him, and. spent an hour in examining his body for,marks proving that he was a Turkish officer. Finally they whipped a boy across the face, and compelled him to identify Mr. Hamilton as a Turk. . Several days .passed before proofs of his identity were accepted.