TURKEY'S APPEAL TO THE POWERS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13566, 6 November 1912, Page 5

TURKEY'S APPEAL TO THE POWERS.

MEDIATION PROPOSALS

CONSULTATIONS PROCEEDING

FRENCH PREMIER'S SUGGESTIONS

ALLIES AVERSE TO INTERVEN-

TION.

AUSTRIA'S ATTITUDE,

London, Nov 4

Britain is communicating with the other Powers heforo replying to Turkey.

M Poincare proposed the recognition of i iitical and administrative changes in tl;o parts occupied by the allies, the retention of the Sultan's sovereignty in Constantinople and surrounding region, and the summoning of a European conference, to which the . Balkan States should bo invited.

Pourparlers with the Powers are proceeding on the basis of M. Poiiieare's proposal, and are likely to bo expedited by tho parties' application aiming at a cessation of hostilities.

Mr ABquith announced that the cruiser Weymouth had arrived at Beisika Bay, and was going to Constantinople.

Sir Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador, has detained the steamer City of Clios, in case of Britishers being endangered. Arrangements are also boing made for a second steamer, and also for a second warship at Salonika^

It is stated from Balkan official sources that the allies will not tolerate foreign interference as a condition of peace. Tho whole campaign and political programme were pre-arranged, and there was not tho least danger of disagreement among tho allies regarding the division of territories and tho definition of frontiers. j Tho "Daily Mail's" Vienna correspon- ' dont states that Austria's disintorestedI ness has become, through the overthrow of Turkey, an impossibility. Tho gravest peril of European peace is that Austria should be allowed afield, she being squeezed between Europe and the Balkan or will find herself isolated as a disturbing factor to the concert of tho Powers.