Offers Turkey's "Last Terms."

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 4, 1913:
    LONDON, Jan, 3.— Lazar Miyuskovitch, head of the Montenegrin delegation, presided at to-day's session of the Balkan Peace Conference.
    Immediately after the minutes had been approved he asked Rechad Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation, to present the promised new Turkish proposals. Rechad, who had been working hard over a cipher Telegram order, seemed rather depressed. He spoke in conciliatory spirit and read what he called "the last possible terms Turkey can offer." These were:
    That Crete, enjoying simple suzerainty of the Sultan, but in reality under the protection of Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy, constitutes a question which can be dealt with only by the powers under the responsibility of which the administration of the island is conducted, especially regarding finance, police, and justice.
    That Turkey shall keep her islands. That she cannot renounce those near the Dardanelles, because they are indispensable to the security of the channel of Constantinople, nor those further south, because they form an integral part of Anatolia.
    That the rectification of the Thracean frontier shall begin south from Segot (called Port Lagos.) in Karagatch Bay, and run almost perpendicularly northward.
    This not only would leave Adrianople in the hands of the Turks, but also the entire coast along the Black Sea, now occupied by the Bulgarians, to Lake Derkos and Mutapha Pasha and Kirk-Kilisseh.
    After a short conference M. Miyuskovitch spoke for his colleagues.
    "The allied delegates," he said, "see with regret that the Ottoman delegates take no account of the results of the war, and the allies consequently would be justified in breaking off the negotiations. In order, however, to afford fresh proof of their conciliatory spirit they request the Ottoman delegates to make at a sitting at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, Jan. 6, a proposition on these terms."
    Here he submitted a counter proposition. A summary of it follows:
    Turkey shall renounce whatever rights she possesses over Crete, leaving the allies to settle with the protecting powers the other points concerning the island.
    Turkey shall cede unconditionally all her islands in the Aegean archipelago, including those provisionally held by Italy.
    The allies propose such rectifications of the frontier as will include Adrianople in Bulgarian territory.
    M. Miyuskovitch added that the allies would wait no longer than Monday for Turkey's answer embodying substantially such terms as would be possible as a basis for further negotiations.
    Rechad Pasha, notwithstanding his effort at self-control, lost the calm diplomatic impassibility of the first days of the conference. He quickly tried to parry the stroke by saying he believed he would be able to resume discussion Saturday afternoon. As the allies had no objection, the sitting was adjourned until to-morrow afternoon.
    Immediately after adjournment Rechad Pasha said:
    "As you see, 'appetite comes with eating,' as our proverb says. We have made the allies incredible concessions — concessions which they themselves never believed they would obtain—while on their side nothing had been even attempted to meet us half way. How, then, can a compromise be possible? By this time the allies should have been convinced that nothing can make us willingly renounce our European metropolis."
    In view of the attitude of the allies a dispatch from Bucharest was regarded as significant. It said the officers of the reserve of the Rumanian Army had been ordered to report for service and to be in readiness to join the colors at a moment's notice.
    M. Jonescu, Rumanian Minister of Interior, who arrived in London last night, denied that Rumania was mobilizing, but added:
    "Once mobilization has been officially announced, it will mean that Rumania has decided to go to war immediately. We shall never employ mobilization as a  bluff or a threat. It is true that latterly our army has taken steps demanded by  prudence, but that is by no means mobilization. Until now we have been neutral. We have made many sacrifices to keep the peace, but I cannot tell what Rumania's attitude may be to-morrow, because I do not know myself."