GREAT POWERS QUESTION FOR DECISION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 7

GREAT POWERS QUESTION FOR DECISION

BULGARIAN-RUMANIAN DISPUTE BULGARIA ACTS, By Telegraph.—Presß Asßoclatlcm.-Copyright, (Received February 25, 11 a.m.) SOFIA, 24th February. Bulgaria has referred the dispute with Rumania to the six Great Powers for decision. BUCHAREST, 24th February. The Government has agreed to ■ the Powers' offer of mediation. M. Filipesco, Rumanian Ministeß of Agriculture, dissented, ahd resigned. TURKISH SICK AND WOUNDED. BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS AT GALLIPOLt. (Received February 25; 8.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th Feb. A hospital ship, with 1200 sick and wounded on board, has returned front Gallipoli. Dysentery is prevalent amongst the Turkish expeditionary force. CHATALDEJA AND BULAIR, TURKS CONFIDENT THEY CAN HOLD BOTH PLACES. HOW LO %CANADRIANOPLE CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th Feb. The Turkish Government is confident that it can hold Chataideja and Bul&ir indefinitely. It is still hopeful that European complications or tbe exhaustion of the allies by delay will determine the situation. It is believed that Adrianoplo will b© able ta withstand ths siege till the end Of March. Other . accounts state that Skutari has telegraphed that it will be difficult to prolong the fighting beyond seven, days. The main body of Turks has been compelled to remain in their retrenchments at Chataideja, owing to the floods. An artillery duel is in progress on the east and front of Adrianople. FOREIGNERS IN ADRIANOPLE. QUESTION OF A~NEUTRAL ZONE. ,• „ . SOFIA, 24th February. M. Gueschofi. the Bulgarian Premier, has informed the Powers that he will refer their offer of mediation to the Cabinet. He declined to consent to a neutral zone at Karagatch. He is prepared to adhere ta the parties' first proposition, authorising foreigner* to leatfe the Turkish line?. ,tA message from Constantinopls last week stated: "The Governor of Adrianj ople offers the Karagatch quarter, on the ' right bank of the Maritaa, ac a sanctuary j for the Europeans. Ifc is doubtful, how- ' ever, whether the Bulgarians will assent."] POWERS' COLLECTIVE NOTE. ALLIES' INACTIVITY DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN. LONDONT 24th February. The Powers have not yet received Turkey's acceptance of their Collective Note. The Daily Telegraph's war correspondent states that the inactivity of the Allies is difficult to explain. Possibly, the paper says, the failures of Greek co-operation have led to an alteration of plans, or the failure may be due to a misunderstanding over Salonika. NEW FRONTIER. ALLEGED SECRET PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. | • LONDON", 24th February. : Tha Daily Mail's Sofia correspondent I states that Bulgaria is only open to con- : sider peace negotiations on condition that there is a new frontier nearer to Constantinople than had been hitherto demanded, th«it Turkey demobilise within i fifteen dayß ot' the reopening of negotia* | tions, and the payment of an indemnity. It is rumoured at Belgrade that the j Allies and Tttrks are secretly negotiating for peace. GREEK TORPEDOERB ON THE ALERT. ATHENS, 24th February. Greek torpedoers are patrolling the I Adriatic and lonian Seas on the look out for the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, | RUMANIA'S* DEMANDS. Another conference took place this morning (reported The Times on the 17th of last month) between Dr. Daneff | and M. Mishu, the newly-appointed Rumanian Minister., It is understood that in satisfaction of the Rumanian demand for a scientific frontier Bulgaria offers the territory north of ft ' straight line drawn from Silifettia to a point on the Black Sea roast somo five kilometres south of the "point where the existing frontier reached Hie f£a, thus affording greater security for a prospective Rumanian poTfc at Mangalia. Bulgaria de- j clineft to cede the town iv£ Silifttria^ but offers to demolish all forMfifntions m its neighbourhood and in the frontier dietricte as a sfuarantoe of her renunciation of any design to incorporate the Rumanian Dobrud ja in her own territory. Bulgaria further undertakes to concede autonomous institutions to _ the RutzoVlachs ifl the Mccodonian districts which will eventually form part of the Bui* 1 ' garian Kingdom. These concessions are regarded as .inadequate at'Bukarest, but no counterproposals have as yet been formulated by Rumania.