Show GREECE WANTS PEACE BUT TURKEY REFUSES AN ARMISTICE A written appe appeal at to the rowers roiTi irn the sultan will bo be sat toned with reasonable I 1 send rends yr per surplus troops troop blome athens may 10 the correspondent of the associated press learns on the very best authority that greece lias has made a written a application to the powers through their representatives at athens with a view of bf obtaining mediation all the representatives have promised in their replies to use their best offices except the german minister who has merely acknowledged the receipt of the note from the cabinet the porte is inclined to support up the powers power with a view to tile the fa a ci of negotiations but it declines to consent to an armistice on the ground that this would enable greece to reorganize her forces As As it a matter of fact turkey continues to send troops from salonica homeward and it is probable that osman pasha has returned to constantinople from salonica in view of 0 both facts it may be assumed that nothing serious be rious is expected but the continuance of a a state of war is regarded as the very best means of hastening the efforts of diplomacy without doubt hopes have lave been raised in turkey that the ottoman government might annex thessaly and restore the old frontier of 1881 but ahe the sultan is not inclined to risk such a step on the contrary he opposes it uncompromisingly and will not yield to the pressure of the war party at constantinople uc he will be satisfied with a reasonable indemnity and a slight ratification of the eastern frontier such a one as would give turkey several stra getie getic positions in n the vicinity of Ne zeros |