The Balkan Trouble

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 192, 3 January 1913, Page 5

The Balkan Trouble

MURDERERS AMNESTIED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Constantinople, January 1. An irade has been issued granting amnesties to 85 participators in tihe Adana and Antioch massacres in 1909. The enquiry into Djampoulat's escape shows that two thousand Turkish pounds were ipaid to the officer in charge of the prisoner. It is believed that the Committee of Union and Progress provided the money. AN APPEAL. TO AUSTRIA.

Vienna, January 1. Fugitive Albanians at Sarajevo memorialised Count liercholdt, asking that Albania be placed under the protectorate of the House of Hapsburg. PRECAUTIONS AHA INST CHOLERA. Sofia, January 1. The Government lias engaged fifty doctors and twenty bacteriologists from Russia and Bohemia to prevent cholera in Bulgaria.

A "SCRAPPING" COMMANDER. Belgrade, January 1. Hassan Riza, commander at Scutari, disregarding the Porte's instructions to observe the armistice, vigorously attacked the Montenegrins and Servians, his losses being 1800 men for two days.

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. SOME PROGRESS MADE. London, January 1. The Turks have agreed to cession of the territory westward of Adrianople and the autonomy of Albania, leaving the great Powers to fix the boundaries. It was suggested that Turkey and Bulgaria directly negotiate for the Turkoliulgariaiii frontier, but the Allies insist on negotiations en bloc.

TIIE ALIES' DEMANDS. Received January l. 9.50 p.m. London, January 2. M. Venizelos presided at the conference. The Turks agreed to the Allies' demand that all negotiations should be conduced en bloc. The Turks stated that as Crete was cordial with the Powers it would be admissible to seek their opinion before arriving at a decision. The allies insisted that Turkey should relinquish her rights to Crete, adding that perhaps later the Allies would address the Powers on the subject. The Turks suggested that as the regions belonged to Asia Minor they were unable to cede the Allies' demands for cession. The Allies also declared that the Turks must prepare a definite map of the Turko-Bulgarian frontier.

Resliid Pasha intimated that they would seek fresh instructions on the various points. When the Anilmssadors' conference .resumes it will discuss the three projects for the delimitation of Albania propounded by the Jialkans, Russia and Austria. The hitlers widely diverges from the others.

The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent states that there is an impression in certain circles that a direct Turko-fiulgarian understanding exists with regard to Macedonian autonomy, the object being to deprive Greece of Salonika and permit Bulgaria to become master of Macedonia later.