ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 7

ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS.

A FORM OF INTERVENTION. FRAMED BY FRANCE AND APPROVED. "

NATURE NOT DISCLOSED., London, November 3. M. Poincare (Premier of France) has submitted to the Powers a proposal as to the form which intervention in respect to the Balkan war should take. It is understood that it meets with general approval, although Austria desires to negotiate separately with Servia. ..., ... ■„ ~.,.,..: The Paris Temps publishes ' an interview with the Bulgarian Charge d'Affaires, who says that popular sentiment would not allow the "allies to restore a freed people to Turkish rule.

Europe, he says, must not repeat the policy of the Berlin Congress and adjourn final liquidation of the subject. M. Sazanoff (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs) has authorised » statement noting Austria-Hungary' declaration that she is confining herself to . economic interests, adding that he believed these could be satisfied without prejudice to the Slav States. ' The Rester Lloyd (Buda Peßth) says that Austrian-Hungary is _ fully determined to adhere to her policy of territorial abstinence. The Constantinople newspapers I bitterly contrast Europe's changing vyews in regard to the status quo since the allies' successes in the : war. ' ••■•-.' The Dutch cruiser Gelderland has been ordered to Smyrna. The Powers have requested the Porte to permit a warship belonging to each nation to pass the Dardanelles. '■"',•'■ The Egyptian Red Cross Society is sending a detachment to the Balkans. I