THE BALKAN WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 30 December 1912, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR

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| TURKISH COUNTER-PROPOSALS. ! PROVE UNACCEPTABLE. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 28. The Turks have presented counter proposals l to the Conference, which after a brief discussion, adjoMrned ■ until Monday.. It is semi-officially stated that the counter proposaig include the retention of Adrianople by Turkey; the conversion of Macedonia into a neutral State with Salonika as tlio capital, under a protostant Prince, to be chosen by the Allies on the Sultan's rommaticin; the granting of autonomy to Albania, under the Sultan's sovereignty, and under a Prince of the Imperial Ottomam family, to be * chosen every five years, with a possij bility of the renewal of the appoint(ment: all the Aegean Islands "o remain Turkish. It is further maintained bv Turkey that the Cretan question is beyond the scone of the conference. The counter proposals not proving, acceptable, tlio Turkish delegates declare that tliey must again communiIcaie with Constantinople. | MONTENEGRIN CLAIMS. I OPPOSED BY AUSTRIA. ; (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) i ■ J VIENNA, December 28. | The Neue Freie Press'? says that Austria objects to Montenegro securing Skutari, which is exclusively in''MSited by Albanians, and we bo incorporated in tlie new Albania:' State. OFFICIALS AND MEN. (Received Last- Night, 5:5 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE. Dee. 28. Turkifh officials are returning to Chatakleja, owing to complaints that the troops objected to being exposed on the bleak uplands while their officers were amusing themselves- in Constantinople. RAVAGES OF DISEASE. , 5000 TURKISH SOLDIERS DIE. ■ (Received Last Ni<rbt. 5.5 o'clock".? CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 28. , Five thousand Turkish, soldiers die/' from disease at Chntaldejn before cholera disappeared from army. Of those affected by dysentry ten per cent. died. . I