Allies Withhold Their Ultimatum.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 16, 1913:
Peace Prospects Bettered by Their Decision Not to End the Armistice Now.
FRANCE GAVE STRONG HINT
Note of the Powers Will Be Presented to the Porte To-day, and London Takes an Optimistic View.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Jan. 15.— To-day saw a slight improvement in the chances of peace in the Near East. The Balkan delegates are finding diplomatic opinion vigorously opposed to their proposal to deliver a note to the Porte, terminating the armistice simultaneously with the presentation of the powers' note, and have decided not to take any steps at present. This decision is due to the intervention of the French Ambassador, the view of France being that the allies should postpone further action until Europe had done her best to obtain peace.
    Dr. Daneff, after a meeting to-day with Ambassador Cambon, informed his colleagues that it would be wiser not to proceed with the proposal to break off the negotiations.
    This decision of the allies has been received with relief. It is felt that the action of the powers would have been deprived of all chances of success, if accompanied by an ultimatum from the allied States.
    The object of the collective note is to enable the Turks to yield to the pressure of Europe what they felt they could not yield to the Balkan States. That the delegates have themselves now come around to this view is, there-tore, welcomed as diminishing the danger of the renewal of war.
    The collective note, it is understood, will be delivered to-day. A Constantinople dispatch reports that the Turkish delegates have been instructed to remain in London, and this is regarded as a hopeful sign.