In the Balkans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 13, 1913

Press reports from the Balkans indicate that there may soon be a reopening of negotiations looking to a settlement of the trouble between the allies and Turkey. The Turks seem willing now to surrender Adrianople and yield much on the boundary question, but do not propose to pay any indemnity. The allies, on the other hand, are demanding Adrianople, Scutari, Janina, and the peninsula of Gallipoli, together with all the islands of the Ægean Sea that are now occupied by the Greeks. This would give to the allies practical control of the Dardanelles. Just how the greater powers will look upon these demands is not known, but it is understood that Turkey has signified her willingness to place her interests entirely in the hands of the greater powers of Europe, feeling that in this way she would save to herself at least the control of the Dardanelles.