PEACE PROPOSALS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 5

PEACE PROPOSALS.

TURKISH TERRITORY CEDED. .WEST OF AORIANOPLEi conference adjourns, AUSTRIA AND ALBANIABr iweetttDh-fresii Assoolation-Oonrrfglit , London, January 1. ' At: the Peace Conference the Turkish delegates announced tiiat slight modifications had been formulated to tie forte's counter-proposals. The '.Turkish delegates agreed to the cession of territory westward of AdriaDoplo, and autonomy fot Albania, leaving the Great Powers to fii tho boundaries. It is suggested that Turkey and Bul- • garia will directly negotiate about the frontier, but the allies insist on an en bloc negotiation.

THE WAY OF THE DIPLOMAT. ' /; : CUTTING UP TURKEY. (Reo. January 2, 9.50 p.m.) London, January 2. Referring to the future of Crete, the Turkish representatives suggested that, iD view of Crete's with tho Powers, it might be iidvisablo to seek their opinions before reaching a decision. . Tho Allies insisted that .Turkey should relinquish: her rights in Crete, adding that perhapJ later the Allies would address the Powers qn. tho subject. The Turks then suggested that as the region® belonged to Asia Minor, they would .be unable to concede the Allies' demands for the cession ,of the territory. Also, deolarei the Turks, they must prepare a definite map of tho Turko-Bul-garian frontier.. .17 . ■ : - Keschid Pasha intimated that ho would Seek .fresh , on the various points. When tho Ambassadors'. Conference resumes three different proposalsifor .the 'delimitation of the Albanian boundaries— by the Balkan League, Russia, and Austria— will be submitted; The last tiamed. Austria, has presented proposals widely, divergent from the others. Tho London "Daily Telegraph's" Constatitihoplo correspondent states that thcro is an impression in certain circles that a. direct iHirko-Bulgarian understanding exists with regard to. Macedonia autonomy, the object boing to deprive Gr6eco of Salonika,; and permit Bulgaria to beoomo master, of Macedonia later. The Confeitaca; had adjourned till Friday. ...

AUSTRIA' 3 PROTECTION SOUGHT* an Albanian memorial. . : ; Vienna, January 1. Fngitivo Albanians at Sarajevo have memorialised Count Leopold : Berchtold, Minister 1 for Foreign' Affairs, asking that Albania should W placed urider tho protectorate of tho Houso of Hapsburg, ■ TURKISH REPUBLIC PLOTi .ESCAPE OF A CONSPIRATOR. Constantinople, January 1... On6of the plotters, arrested for tornpliaity in the Turkish Republic, Captain Djampoulat, has escaped. ,~flo . was . allowed .to visit a.: dentist tn ' charee of an offlcer, and both have dis, appeared. . . ■ i ' Subsequent' inquiry into Djampoulat's escape shows that two thousand Turkish pounds were paid the ofEcor in charge of the prisoner. > i ■ ■ It is behoved the Committee of Union and Progress provided the money. . it was reported on' November IS last that 200 arreSts had been mado in connection with a plot to creato a Turkish Bopublio nnder Shevket Pasha. The arrests! included Talttat Bey, Captain Djampoulat, • and several Young Turk ex-Dep'utics. BREACH OF THE ARMISTICE. . TURKISH COMMANDER RESUMES ' HOSTILITIES. :: - .Belgrade, January 1. Hossati Rlfca Pasha, eommandor at Sctliari, disregarding the Porto's instructions to Observe :an armistioo, vigorously attaoked tho Montenegrins and , Servians, fris lbssas Were eiglit htihdred in two days, - TO SUPPRESS CHOLERA. •••.». '■ 1 ■■ ' BULGARIAN PRECAUTIONS. " > Sofia, January 2. The Government has engaged fifty dbctors and twenty bacteriologists from Russia and Bohemia to prevent an outbreak, of cholera |rt Bulgaria.