Servia Wants Three Ports.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 8, 1912:
She Asks Outlets on Adriatic — Constantinople's Fate Left to Powers.
    PARIS, Nov. 7.— Turkey has decided to give the powers complete liberty of action in arranging conditions of peace, according to a dispatch from Constantinople to The Journal des Débats.
    The Balkan allies will ask for the partition of European Turkey, leaving the fate of Constantinople to the decision of the European powers, according to Premier Pachitch of Servia, in an interview to-day with the correspondent of The Temps in Belgrade. The Servian statesman continued:
    "Servia wants the ports of San Giovanni di Medua, Alessio, and Durazzo on the Adriatic Sea, which the Servian Empire possessed in the middle ages, and by which she was territorially related to the rest of Europe."
    Servia, the Premier added, had not received any proposal from Austria, but, assuming that Austria had no territorial designs, Servia was quite willing to favor economic and commercial expansion for Austria.
    The Premier concluded by saying that the Balkan allies desired Turkey to treat directly with them concerning peace, and not through the powers.