PRICE OF PEACE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 16 December 1912, Page 7

PRICE OF PEACE.

BULGARIA'S DEMANDSADRIANOPLE MUST BE CEDED BY TURKEY. COMMERCIAL PORT FOR SERYIABy Telesraph—Press Assooiation-Copyrtent ■ (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) . Paris, December 14. ' M. Daneff, President of the Bulgarian Sobranje, who is proceeding to London for .' the peace conference, stated in an interview that tho possession of Adrianople was a sine qua non with tho Bulgarians, otherwise the war would bo renewed. The real interest of Turkey was in securing a sclid peace and establishing closer relations with Bulgaria. M, Daneff refused to believe that Tur- ! key would refuse 1 Greece admission to the j; conference. If she persisted, the Balkan allies would unite and obtain Greece' 6 admission. . . .TURKEY MASSING TROOPS. .:', FEVERISH ACTIVITY. Constantinople, December 13. •Fresh troops are constantly pouring in from Anatolia, and are being massed at Chatalja. The Government workshops aro working day and. night. ■• ;The military paTty are determined that .new frontier shall include the Adrianople fortress;. ■'.'■'■■, AUSTRIA AND SERVIA. ADRIATIC PORT QUESTION. . (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Vienna, December U. ■ The "Neue Freie Presse" says Austria is willing to concede Servia a commercial port "oh the Adriatic, approached by neutral .railways. Belgrade, December 13. The Servian Government, is ready to grant any satisfaction Austria is entitled to.for the ill-treatment .of H. Prochaska, the Austrian Consul at Prizren, Albania. FRICTION IN SALONIKA. GRAECO-BULGARIAN QUARRELS. (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Athens, December 15. : Semiofficial telegrams from Salonika accuse the Bulgarian soldiers of pillaging many towns and attacking Austrians. » : Unspeakable outrages aro stated to have been perpetrated at Seres and other towns, and the Bulgarians are accused of massacring sixty rich Turks who had previously paid enormous ransoms. .-' There is great concern in Salonika in consequence of thirty thousand Bulgarians returning thither from Dedeagach. There is no accommodation available, and an outbreak of cholera is feared owing to the over-crowded condition of the city.; There is continual friction between the Bulgarians, and Greeks. THE FIGHTING IN EPIRUS. ■ ■■'•". GREEK VERSION/ > .";' .'. '... , . Aihens, - December 13. •The Greek yersion.of the engagement.at Yanina, in Epirus, in which a Turkish' victory is claimed, is that it was merely a skirmish. • '••. ';■' '■-; ■ Two'battalions wore sant from. Santa . jQuarapti to create a diy ) crs^n /9 n.oj_thwai(imain army,- lauvanced. .viT-her-latter occupied the - enemy's advanced posts towards Bizani at. the bayonets' point. : '•. ' ' '.;.' ""' : •''"" . ... ' The Santa Quaranti expedition retreated, leaving' five men killed and nineteen wounded. .-'■ PEACE CONFERENCE. , DELEGATES ARRIVING. London, December 13. ' The Bulgarian; delegates to the Peace ..Conference have arrived in London. . -. •The.;.. Turkish delegates will-arrive, to- ■ night.: . • ' •"" .The' Turkish delegates have been instructed n'ot to meet the Greek represen.tatives. until the, armistice ' has been signed.