Turkey Asks Powers To Conclude Peace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 2, 1913:
The Porte Has Put Itself in Their Hands to Stop the Balkan Hostilities.
LONDON SEES END IN SIGHT
Athens Hears of a Severe Engagement Near Janina with Heavy Turkish Losses.
    LONDON, March 1.— The Turkish Government has definitely abandoned its prohibitive stipulations in connection with bringing about a cessation of hostilities and has put the Ottoman cause unreservedly in the hands of the European powers with a request to conclude peace as advantageously as possible for Turkish interests.
    Unless, as so often has been the case heretofore, Turkey again changes her mind before the negotiations can be brought to fruition, it is the opinion of the official quarters here that direct peace negotiations will be resumed speedily, with every prospect of an early settlement and a cessation of the war in which the five Balkan nations are engaged.

    ATHENS, March 1.—Heavy losses were inflicted on a Turkish detachment, which was routed yesterday by a Greek force near Molista, north of Janina, after a severe battle, according to dispatches published here.
    The fight is said to have lasted six hours, and the Greeks say that they buried on the field 112 Turks, including eight officers, besides taking 180 prisoners.
    The Greek losses are given as "only four wounded," but independent observers here regard the story with skepticism.