TURKEY AND CRETE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13613, 3 January 1913, Page 5

TURKEY AND CRETE.

CESSION DEMANDED BY THE

ALLIES

DELIMITATION OF ALBANIA

SUPPOSED TURCO-BULGARIAN

UNDERSTANDING

(Received Jan 2, 9.50 p.m.)

London, Jan 2

M. Veuezelos presided at the conference. The Turks agreed to tho Allies' demand that all the negotiations should bo conducted en bloc. The Allies insisted that Turkey should relinquish her rights to Crete, adding that perhaps later tho Allies wouKl address the Powers on tho subject. " The Turks stated that iit would bo advisable to seek tho Powers' opinion boforo arriving at a decision regarding Crete. The Turks suggested that as the region belonged to Asia Minor they were unable to cede it. Tho Allies demanded the cession, and also declared that the Turks must prepare a definite map of the Turco-Bul-gariim frontier. Re shed Vi\tiv.i intimated that ho would seek flush instructions on various points. • •' \Y!:- -i tho Ambassadors' Conference resumes it will discuss the three projects for the delimitation of Albania propounded by the Balkans, Russia and Austria. The latter's proposal widely diverges from tho others. The "Daily Telegraph's" Constantinople correspondent says there is an impression in certain circles that a direct Turcp-Bulgarian understanding, exists with regard to Macedonian autonomy, tho object being to deprive Greece of Salonika and permit Bulgaria to become the master of Macedonia later.