The Powers and Turkey

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 1, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 13.

The Powers and Turkey

One of the latest despatches given out from the diplomats who are considering the disposition to be made of the Balkan-Turkish controversy proposes to leave but a very narrow strip of land in the possession of the Turks in Europe. The despatch is quite brief and is as follows:

“The garrison at Adrianople has offered to surrender, on condition that the Turkish soldiers are allowed the honors of war and are permitted to keep their arms. The Bulgarians have refused to accept these conditions.”

“The European powers have decided practically to ignore the demands of the Balkan allies, and to consider their reply as tantamount to an agreement to accept the proffered mediation.

“The powers in their reply will congratulate the allies on agreeing to mediation, and will propose that the frontier line be drawn from Enos, on the Sea of Marmora, to Midia, on the Black Sea, instead of from Redoste to Media, all the territory to the west of the proposed line, with the exception of Albania, going to the allies.

“The note will declare that the question of an indemnity can not be entertained, and will remind the allies that Albania and the Aegean Islands are in the hands of the powers for final settlement.”

The “powers” are watching the fight very closely; and they finally decide what shall be retained by Turkey and what shall go to the “allies” who are waging the war against her. There can be no appeal from the decision of the “powers,” because they are supreme in that part of the world. But any one ought to be able to see the jealousies that have arisen among them, and the time can not be long delayed when they will reach the crisis that will soon bring the world to face the Armageddon that is prophesied.