BALKAN SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 7

BALKAN SITUATION

GUNS MUST SPEAK AGAIN I iin ■ i THE SHORTEST WAY TO PEACE ALLIES' DELEGATES RETURNING. HOME. By Telegraph.— Preas AsEOdttton.—Copyrieht. LONDON, Ist February. The Balkan peace delegates are returning homewards, but one representative of each delegation is remaining in London. M. Venezelos, Prime Minister of Greece, the leading Greek delegate, in a farewell interview, said the Allies were convinced that war was the shortest way to peace. DiS Daneff (Bulgaria) declared that the guns must speak again, and the Turks would not have the old terms after Monday. The proposed frontier from Midia to Rodosto would be a thing of the past. TURKEY'S REPLY TO THE NOTE. BASIS FOR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. LONDON, 2nd February. As a result of their conference, the Ambassadors of the Powers have telegraphed to their respective Governments that it has been decided that Turkey's reply to the Powers' Note affords a basis for ' resuming negotiations for peace. The Lokal Anzeiger says the Powers are seeking to influence the Allies, particularly Bulgaria, in the direction ot further negotiations. The differences between the Allies' demands and Turkey's latest offer are declared to make a fresh campaign not worth while. TERMINATION OF ARMISTJCE. MONTENEGRIN SATISFACTION. (Received February 3, 8 a.m.) CETTINJE, 2nd February. The termination of the armistice was reecived with satisfaction, through the Montenegro people being desirous of forcing the surrender of Skutari before peace is concluded. King Nicholas has departed towards Skutari. CHATALDEJA TROUBLE. A • DENIAL. . "SOLIDARITY AND DEVOTION." (Received February 3, 10.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 2nd Feb. Skevket Pasha, Grand Vizier, and Minister for War, denies that there is any truth in the reports of trouble at Chataldeja. The army, he says, was never animated by such solidarity and devotion. I X' ILM YOUNG TURKS' PERSECUTIONS. FIGHTING BETWEEN OFFICERS AND MEN. (Received February 3, 10 a.m.) SOFIA, 2nd February. Captain Hadjeali has arrived at the Bulgarian headquarters. He had to fly from the Young Turks, who are persecuting the late Nazim Pasha's partisans. Twenty Turkish soldiers, who have arrived at Chorlu, confirm the reports of sanguinary conflicts between Turkish officers and soldiers at Chataldeja. SHEVKET PASHA INTERVIEWED. UNCONQUERED~FORTRESS OF ADRIANOPLE. IS ALL THAT TURKEY WANTS. VIENNA, let February. The Neve Freie Presse has published an interview with Shevket Pasha, the Grand Vizier of Turkey. Shevket says Turkey wishes to keep nothing except f the unconquered fortress of Adrianople, with its sacred places. Turkey had met the desire of the Powers for peace to the extent of seventy 'five per cent., and had kept only twenty-five per cent, to herself. Ought her enemies to do nothing to meet her? If Europe permitted a breach of the peace Europe must bear the consequences. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ist Feb. It is reported that if Shevket Pasha surrenders Adrianople he will meet Nazim Pasha's fate at the hands of the committee. TURKEY'S ARMY. NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ist Feb. Izzet Pasha, Chief of Staff of the Army of the East, was formerly Chief of the General Staff, and at one time Commander of the Turkish field force which for so many years' past has been waging inconclusive warfare against the rebellious Arabs of the Yemen, has been appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Turkish Army. He has issued a general order calling on the troops to maintain their glorious traditions. TURKS PULLING BOTH WAYS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ist Feb. While the Government has drafted the mildest answer to the Powers' Note, the Committee of Public Safety is preparing a violent proclamation urging the continuance of the war. NAZIM PASHA'S DEATH. ..' CONSTANTINOPLE, Ist Feb. Kiamil Pasha, the ex-Grand Vizier, informed an interviewer that Nazim Pasha was first wounded in the side, and then shot in the head while lying on the ground. OUTBREAK^OF TYPHUS. BELGRADE, Ist. February. An outbreak of typhus has occurred among the Turkish prisoners at Negotin. There have been 346 cases, and 140 deaths in a few days, A doctor and eight nurses have been infected. "PIERRE LOTI" CAUSES INDIGNATION. (Received February 3, 12.30 p.m.) SALONIKA, 2nd February. There is indignation against "Pierre Loti"' for stating in his book the ofßcers of the cruiser Bruix saw Greek and Servian soldiers gouge out the eyes of Turkish prisoners. ["Pierre Loti" (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) ie a captain of the French navy, and a French novelist. He is the author of many works.] VEDRINES AND HIS AEROPLANE. (Received February 3, 12.30 p.m.) BELGRADE, 2nd February. Vedrines, the aviator, has arrived here. His aeroplane is in readiness.