Turkey Threatened With Civil War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 8, 1913:
Liberals Plotting Violent Recapture of Power — Young Turks Divided.
FOOD PRICES ARE TREBLED
Severe Cold Adds to Distress — Enver Bey Flies Over Positions of Bulgarian Army.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Saturday, March 8.— Constantinople dispatches indicate the Possibility of a civil war in Turkey over the question of making peace. The Young Turk Committee is divided in its councils, and the Liberal Party is plotting a violent recapture of power. Only the politicians and soldiers, however, are interested. The mass of the people is utterly indifferent to political changes or the question of peace or war, and is occupied with the problem of keeping alive during the bitterly cold weather, with food prices trebled.
    Enver Bey's latest activities, according to The Daily Mail's Constantinople correspondent, are in aeroplaning. He has been making flights with a German airman over the Bulgarian positions along the Tchatalja lines. Severe weather prevails there and in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Official reports place the mortality at 30 per cent. and the sickness at 25 per cent.

    LONDON, March 7.— King George to-day received Hakki Pasha, the former Turkish Grand Vizier. Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Minister, presented him. The reply of the allies to the powers' offer of mediation in the war in Southeastern Europe is still awaited. It is asserted in diplomatic quarters that the allies in no case will consent to anything in the nature of submitting any questions to arbitration, even if they should be willing to accept European mediation. According to a report current in Sofia the reply of the allies will be handed to the powers on Monday, and will enumerate their peace terms, including a demand for an indemnity.
    No news whatever was received from the theatre of war to-day. It is stated that the Greeks captured 108 guns around Yanina, including thirty-five siege pieces.

    ATHENS, March 7.— The Greek military authorities assert that they have 78,450 Turkish prisoners, including the troops who surrendered at Yanina, in their hands, while 20,000 others are surrounded at various places.
    As an additional reason for demanding an indemnity from Turkey, the Greek Government points out that the maintenance of the prisoners already has involved the expenditure of $1,000,000.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, March 7.— Fifty Arab soldiers belonging to the Turkish regiments guarding the Peninsula of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles Straits were shot to-day as an example to the others. Most of the men guarding the lines in this district have been brought from the warm climates of Asia Minor, and have become mutinous owing to the extreme cold. They declare that they are too numbed to fight.