| Show TURKEY HAS PURPOSE IN lA If Peace Delegates Told to o Re- Re I. I main London in q ondon Appear Anxious to Complete Negotiations Negotiations Negotiations for fOI Ending of War m H-m-H- H t t. t 4 H 4 OPLE I IN n. STRAITS HI I 4 London F Feb tn b. b 8 n An uncensored dl dispatch from hOlD Constantinople to 44 4 4 the Dall Dally Daily Mail tn H n U member o of off f 4 the late Into Turkish cabinet declared 4 4 that COUlL bold huld outi out out- 4 only for tor a n t ie- ie tev n v days das the 4 1 1 garrision nt horses horneK and aud dogs 4 i Fighting FI between n YounG Turk supporters and ond adherent of the 4 late the dl dispatch patch 4 adds ho has continued at for II erol daysH days t H H 4 t 4 LJ f I ONDON ND ON Feb 2 The The porte has 4 3 ordered the Turkish not to leave e London until hostilities hos- hos are resumed and has bas instructed the army to await wait the attack before firing a n shot Thus the Ottomans with tho the exception exception ex ex- of the Montenegrins l the only delegates left in London remarked today that nobody could accuse them of not having haying done lone all humanly possible possible possible pos pos- sible to come to terms Animated by bya a humanitarian spirit they added Turkey wished to avoid useless carnage carnage carnage car car- nage and wished also to show deference defer once ence to the advice of the powers al although ul- ul though Europe ba had been unfair to Turkey Dr Daniel head of ot the Bulgarian delegation before leaving London ondon re recalled recalled ro- ro called what ho he had said In his first statements on arriving In London that Continued on Page Pago 2 Column 3 I I I I I I t u TURKEY HAS REASON I. I FOR lATEST ORDER Delegates Told to Remain in London Until Fighting Is R Resumed Continued tram Horn pago 1 I. t th h Balkan n. n peoples Wh who had adapted t the tho Monroe doctrine to their peninsula aspired to become the Americans or Europe The They had hud Inaugurated a 1 policy pol pol- i icy cy of ot sincerity and straightforwardness straightforward ness nea as ac was proved pro by their frank trank conduct conduct conduct con con- duct In m the tho peaCe conference t they hey demanded from thA first t exactly what the they Intended to take tl rh Tins Balkan alkan representatives he said enid would not have havo walt waited ll to their own OWl d e before resuming ilea lea but fo for the genuine regard which tho the Balkan kingdoms hold held for the powers Ho Un a again aln rejected tho the idea that lint even a n. small fraction of ot Adrian Adrian- epic should be retained b by Turkey Second lond nr Dr Danoff concluded b by sa saying Turkey should have understood that she must abandon Europe entirely her permanence there being opposed not noi only b by the tho allies but bilL b by tho the pO CI t themselves c as ns shown hown by their collective not note Turkey lurke has s refused to quit peacefully hut but will be forced todo to todo do doso RO so h by another war var after which fully realizing the tho strength of the Balkan s tates Rh sho will become their friend Osman l 1 Pasha of or the Turl Turkish lt-Ih lt delegation ridiculed tIme the n assertion that t tho he allies s would be able to storm In n a few tew days Ho Ito pointed out that the fortifications on tho hills bills s surrounding the town form torm a circle 25 5 miles R In diameter within which are arc other circles equally strong In addition addition addi addi- tion ion the tho town I Is protected b by such Ruch natural nat nat- ural ral defenses as tho the rivers Arda rda Ja JI and Maritsa and li he declared that tho the garrison of ot the fortress could r resist re nO on an enemy even ten times Its su superior an- an perlor In numbers The plan to take b by hI starvation star tar ration atlon had evidently been abandoned tho the Turkish commandant having ha proved his ability to furnish supplies Indefinitely for tor the righting fighting men and civilIans civilians civil civil- ians lana within the town |
