Turkey Yielding, Balkan Peace Near.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 24, 1913:
Secret Negotiations in Progress. Belgrade Hears, and May End Next Week.
ADRIANOPLE MAY BE CEDED
Although Shukri Pasha, Despairing of Holding Town, Is Urged to Keep Up His Defense.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Feb. 24.— The Sofia correspondent of The Daily Mail telegraphs :
    "The statement is confirmed that Hakki Pasha, the Turkish envoy in London, has accepted the powers' note of Jan. 17, wherein they advised Turkey to cede Adrianople and leave to them the question of the Aegean Islands, as a basis for fresh peace negotiations. Hakki expressed the wish that he be informed of the allies' conditions with regard to new frontiers and an indemnity.
    "I am informed that Bulgaria will only reopen peace negotiations on condition that the new frontier be placed nearer Constantinople than was hitherto demanded, that an indemnity be paid by Turkey, and that Turkey agree to demobilize fifteen days after reopening the negotiations."