Balkan States Press Demands.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 6, 1912:
Prime Minister of Servia Cables The Times They Want Reforms the Powers Promised.
LONDON BELIEVES WAR NEAR
Clash on Montenegrin Border Reported — Turkey, Defiant Will Accept the Challenge.
POWERS WATCH EACH OTHER
Three Days Will Decide Peace Question, Says M. Sazonoff — Experts Debate First War Moves.
By P. PASITCH, Prime Minister of Servia.
By Cable to the Editor of The New York Times.
    BELGRADE, Oct. 5.— Having in mind the lamentable condition of the Christians in Turkey, Servia demands the introduction in old Servia of the reforms formulated in Article XXIII. of the treaty of Berlin, the last international pact by which the situation in the Balkans should be governed.
    Old Servia has 1,050,000 inhabitants, of whom 700,000 are Servians and 350,000 Albanians, among which latter are 150,000 Servians, who have been terrorized into becoming Albanians during the last forty years.
    What Servians in old Servia demand, the Bulgarians demand in Macedonia and the Greeks in Epirus and Thessalonia, and the Albanians on the Adriatic littoral in the valayets of Scutari and Janina.
    However, the peoples of the Balkan States cannot admit the partition of old Servia as at the time of the Muerstig programme. At the head of these autonomous provinces must be a Christian Governor, that is, of the same faith as the population; then representatives and authorities of the Christian faith, proportionately to the numbers of the Christian populations. The same principle must apply to the provincial assemblies in the departments, districts, and communes.
    Article XXIII. calls for the application of reforms similar to those in Crete.
    We ask less. We don't ask for territorial aggrandizement.
    We demand what was foreseen and promised thirty-four years ago for the European provinces of Turkey.
    We demand the introduction of the institutions granted by the powers under the treaty of Berlin, which, up to the present, has never been carried out.
              P. PASITCH.