TURKISH OBSTINACY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9

TURKISH OBSTINACY.

FIRM REFUSAL TO RETIRE.

BULGARIAN NEGOTIATIONS.

FATE OF ADRIANOPLE.

GREEKS EVACUATE XANTHI.

EXODUS OF INHABITANTS.

By Tolocraph-Presß Association-Copyright,

(Received August 26. 11.16 p.m.)

London, August 26. The Porte is seeking a direct arrangement with Bulgaria with regard to the settlement of the territorial dispute in Eastern Thrace. Turkey is determined to retain Adrianople and Kirk Kilisse, and offers concessions in other directions. . , A prompt solution is considered imperative-at Constantinople, owing to the burden of maintaining a force of 300,000 men in Thrace. Ratifications of the peace treaty have been exchanged. Bulgaria does not intend to negotiate with the Porte regarding Adrianople, contending that the Enos-Midia line was imposed by the Powers and its maintenance is their business. The International Commission of Inquiry into the stories of cruelties in the Balkans and the economic consequences of the two wars has arrived at Belgrade. A total of 128,000 Greeks, Turks, Jews and Bulgarians has taken refuge in Greek territory, and the numbers are daily increasing. Xanthi has been transferred to the Bulgarians by the Greeks, and the majority of the inhabitants have fled in terror of their new masters. The Turks are extending the area reoccupied by them, and are now established at Gumuldchina, in Southern Roumelia, and Mastanti, in the north, 60 miles to the westward of Adrianople, and the Maritza, which they claim as their western frontier.