Thursday, March 14, 2013

Turks To Keep Gallipoli.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 14, 1913:
But Allied Want Almost Everything Else — Porte Defaults on Debt.
    BELGRADE, March 13.— A Government newspaper publishes the conditions on which the Balkan allies are willing to accept the powers' mediation.
    Hostilities are to continue until the peace treaty is signed. The basis of negotiations will be the same as was laid before the Ottoman delegates at London on Dec. 23. The frontier lines are to extend from Midia to Rodosto. The Gallipoli peninsula is to remain in Turkey's possession, but all territories to the west, with the exception of Albania, must be surrendered to the allies.
    Adrianople and Scutari must be surrendered before the negotiations begin.
    The Aegean Islands are to be ceded to Greece, and Turkey must pay an indemnity, the amount of which will be determined later.
    Turkey must guarantee the full rights of Balkan subjects residing in Turkish territories.
    About fifty Servian soldiers were killed on board Servian transports at San Giovanni di Medua, on the Adriatic coast, yesterday by shells from the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh. Much of the ammunition on the transports exploded.

    CETTINJE, March 13.— Four Sevian transports, conveying strong detachments of troops to assist the Montenegrins in their siege of the fortress of Scutari were badly riddled yesterday by shells from the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh at San Giovanni di Medua. Two of the transports were set on fire.
    A telegram received here from San Giovanni di Medua alleges that the Hamidieh flew the Austro-Hungarian flag.
    Another report doubts whether the war vessel was the Hamidieh at all, and says that the cruiser resembled a vessel of the Austrian Kaiser in class.

    LONDON, Friday, March 14.— No important fighting in the Near East has occurred since Sunday, according to an official Turkish statement, and the position at Adrianople is unchanged.
    A strong squadron of Greek warships has been sent to search for the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, which, except for the attacks on the Servian transports, appears to have done no serious damage to property either at Durazzo or San Giovanni di Medua.

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