Allies Agree On Division Of Spoils.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 25, 1912:
Confident That the Outcome of the Peace Conference Will Be Ottoman Surrender.
TURKS MAY SAVE ADRIANOPLE
Salonika and Adjacent Territory to be Neutral — Some Delegates Go to Paris to Consult Poincaré.
    LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 25.— The Turkish delegates to the peace conference, although they realize that eventually they must accept the conditions laid down by the allies in order to bring about peace in Southeastern Europe, are following their usual course of procrastination, and will take advantage of every diplomatic device to postpone the inevitable dismemberment of the territory which has been their armed camp for 500 years.
    In the meanwhile, however, the allies are so confident that the outcome of the peace negotiations will be in line with their demands that they already have agreed on the boundaries for an autonomous Albania. These boundaries will be submitted later to the Ambassadorial conference, which has been adjourned until early in the new year.
    The allies have agreed to propose to the Ambassadorial conference the following frontier for an autonomous Albania: North along the left bank of the river Drin, leaving a few miles on the left bank of that river to Montenegro, as it represents the only passage possible from the interior to the sea. The frontier as proposed will follow the Drin until the White Drin joins the Black Drin. The eastern frontier is marked by the watershed between Albania and Servia, leaving to Servia both Prisrend and Monastir. The southern frontier consists of a line practically straight from south of Italona to the watershed, leaving the town of Argiro Kastro to Greece.
    The proposed frontier between Montenegro and Servia will be along the White Drin, leaving Yakova to Montenegro, and passing through the source of the river Ibar at a spot called Rojas. From there it reaches in a straight line to the river Lim, which constitutes the last part of the frontier, leaving the town of Plevlie to Montenegro.
    The Aegean Islands will go to Greece, they having a population made up almost entirely of Greeks. But the Athens Government pledges the neutralization of these islands, desiring to guarantee to all the powers free passage and liberty of commerce, throughout the archipelago.
    Although the Bulgarians yesterday asked to be permitted to occupy territory on a line from Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmora to Midia, on the Black Sea, it is be believed that they will be satisfied to have the frontier start from Enos, a port on the Aegean Sea, and follow the Maritza River until it reaches a point south of Kuleli Burgas and then cut across eastward to Midia. It is supposed, however, that if pressure is brought to bear in order to save Turkish dignity, for the sake of peace the Bulgarians might even accept a situation which, while it would not give them Adrianople, would prevent it from being a menace in the future.
    It is purposed to make Salonika and the surrounding territory within a radius of one hundred miles neutral under the protection of the Allies.
    The peace plenipotentiaries have, for the most part, momentarily cast off the cares of their work and are enjoying the hospitalities of their diplomatic representatives in London, who are entertaining in their honor, or visiting friends in the country. Two or three of them have gone to Paris to consult with the French Premier, M. Poincaré, doubtless on the subject of mediation, which was mooted in his recent speech before the Chamber of Deputies and which is practically everywhere regarded as inevitable before the widely separated views of the allies and of the Turks can be brought to a compromise.
    The present break in the negotiations is in all probability only the first of several, for when the plenipotentiaries come together again in St. James's Palace on Saturday the Ottoman response to the conditions of peace laid down by the allies will doubtless be found to be merely a series of counter-proposals which will have to be referred to the Balkan Governments. This will necessitate another long interval.
    There remains little doubt in diplomatic circles, however, that the crisis will ultimately be surmounted without a resumption of hostilities.