War Suspended After Turkey Sues For Peace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 14, 1912:
Porte Opens Negotiations Directly with Allies, Who Appear Satisfied of Its Good Faith.
ENVOY STARTS FOR SOFIA
Bulgaria Has Two Representatives in Constantinople — Orders for War Supplies Stopped.
ARMISTICE NOW IN EFFECT
Attack in Force at Tchatalja Not Made, Although the Bulgars Were Winning,
WANT TO ENTER CAPITAL
Bulgarians, It Is Said, Insist That They Must Go Into Constantinople.
RUSSIAN ATTITUDE PACIFIC
Refuses to Aid Servia In Her Dispute with Austria — A Defiance from Montenegro.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 14.— The end of the Balkan war is in sight.
    Turkey has opened negotiations directly with the allies, having found her appeals to the great powers futile, and, should no insuperable difficulty present itself in the discussion of conditions of peace, hostilities are at an end.
    Practically the war is already over, A Bulgarian attack in force upon the Tchatalja lines has not been made, and desultory firing was all that went on in that quarter yesterday.
    The Bulgarian objections to an armistice without some assurance that it will lead definitely to a conclusion of the war are obvious, and the suspension of operations may be taken as an indication that King Ferdinand and his advisers are satisfied that the Turks do not contemplate further resistance.
    In Constantinople last night it was officially stated that a cessation of hostilities had been arranged. The Director of Transport informed inquirers at the War Office that such was the fact, and simultaneously another official summoned the chief contractors for military supplies and told them that hostilities had ceased and that no further supplies would be required for the front.
    Bulgaria already has a representative in Constantinople in the person of M. Popoff, First Dragoman of the former Bulgarian Legation there, who stayed on at the Russian Consulate after the war began, and another diplomatist, M. Nenajevitch, formerly Bulgarian Minister at Constantinople, has arrived there.
    Musurus Bey, Turkish Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, started for Sofia on Tuesday as one of two Bulgarian delegates.
    In a dispatch dated Constantinople Nov. 12 and wirelessed from a steamer in the Black Sea M. H. Donohoe telegraphs The Dally Chronicle as follows:
    "Beaten, demoralized, without hope of reorganization in time to make an effective stand against the enemy, the Turks have recognized the futility of further resistance. Nazim Pasha has informed the Grand Vizier that the Turkish Army is both unable and unwilling to fight, and suggests that the only course left is to make the best possible terms with the allies by direct negotiations opened with the Bulgarians.
    "Some Turkish advisers in the capital are anxious to continue the defense of Tchatalja. That would certainly result in disaster. As a basis of proposals for an armistice Turkey is ready to abandon Tchatalja, provided the Bulgarians undertake not to enter the capital. The Porte is prepared to make heavy sacrifices to avert this crowning humiliation, and if King Ferdinand is not too exigent peace is in sight."
    This dispatch was uncensored. Others which passed the Turkish censor give the information summarized in the earlier portion of this message.
    Another version given by The London Times's Constantinople correspondent is as follows:
    "I have reason to believe that M. Popoff, first Dragoman of the Bulgarian Legation, who appears not to have left Constantinople after the declaration of war, had interviews with Kiamil Pasha, the Grand Vizier, yesterday and to-day with regard to conditions for an armistice. The result of .the interviews is as yet unknown, but it is believed that the pourparlers are continuing. In this connection it may be noted that the departure of Musurus Bey, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, on board a Rumanian steamer yesterday, is generally ascribed to his being sent on a confidential mission to the Bulgarian and afterward to the Greek Government. There is, however, no official confirmation of this last report."
    A Sofia dispatch says that the Ministers of the great powers have submitted proposals for peace mediation to the Bulgarian Government in the name of the Turkish Government. An interesting light is thrown on this eventuality by a Sofia dispatch to The Times of last Monday in which that well-informed correspondent said that a collective step by the Ministers of the great powers might be expected soon, the British and Russian Legations having already received instructions from their respective Governments, and the legations of other powers expecting to receive them immediately.
    Direct negotiations with Turkey would have been preferred by Bulgaria, but Ferdinand's Government was ready to listen to any proposals submitted by the powers on behalf of Turkey.
    The question whether the Bulgarian Army shall enter Constantinople is thought to be one of the points upon which the negotiations will be most difficult, but there is good ground for believing that King Ferdinand will not insist on even a formal occupation. There is equally good ground for supposing that the Bulgarians are willing to avoid the necessity of an attack on the Tchatalja lines, with possible heavy cost in lives,
    In this connection, there is a particularly interesting dispatch from Lionel James, the well-known military correspondent of The Times, who is unlikely to speak without knowledge. Under date of Nov. 13, Mr. James says:
    "The Bulgarian advance guard today came in touch with the Turkish outposts at two points in the lines of Tchatalja. As far as can be judged, in this portion of the lines the Turks are adequately intrenched, and the defenses properly manned."
    A further dispatch from the same source points out some slight inaccuracies in Lieut. Wagner's statements. The most serious issue taken with Wagner is over his accounts of the great battle of Nov. 3 and 4. These, according to The Times correspondent, "appear to be based upon the harassing of Mahmud Mukhtar Pasha's rear guard by the Bulgarians during his retreat after the battle of Nov. 2 and 3. Such, at least, is the information obtained from European witnesses who accompanied Mahmud Mukhtar's force, both during its advance and retreat. They deny that any general action, such as that described by the Reichspost correspondent, took place."
    Such criticisms, of course, detract little from the value of Wagner's dispatches, secured for The New York Times by special arrangement with the Reichspost, and which are universally admitted to be the chief journalistic feature of the war, which, it is hoped, is now at its end.
    Simultaneously with the peace news from the Balkans come tidings of good omen with regard to the special situation created by the clash of Austrian and Servian interests. H. Sazonoff is reported to have informed the Servian Government that Russia would not go to war for the sake of a Servian port on the Adriatic, and Austria-Hungary, on her side, is showing a sincere endeavor to come to an amicable arrangement.
    Mobilization reports still continue, but Europe is growing confident that it is impossible, with so much sincere desire for the preservation of peace, that a war may break out which would be the most terrible war Europe has ever known.