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Show POWERS TO IGBE DEMIflSJF ALLIES Balkan States Mav Have to Accept Mediation; Greeks Capture Town. LONDON, March 17. Tbc European powors havo docided practically to ignore ig-nore tho extravagant demands of the Ralkan allios and to consider their reply re-ply as tantamount to nn agreement to accept the proffered mediation. Tho powers in their reply will congratulate con-gratulate tho allies on agreeing to mediation and will proposo that the frontier line be drawn from linns on tho sea of Marmora, to Midia on the Black sea, instead of from Rodosto to Midia, all tho torritory to tho wesL of tho prposed lino, with tho cccecption of Albania, going to the allies. Tho noto lull dcclaro that the question ques-tion of an indemnity cannot be cntor-tainod cntor-tainod and will romind tho allies that Albania and the Aegean islands are iu the hands of the powers for final settlement. settle-ment. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 17. An official report claimB several victories for tho Turks in rocont encounters at Tchatalja, Tho Bulgarians, tho report says, fiiiffcrod heavy losses. The Turks succeeded in ontonng tho village of ICalifakui. With tho oxcoption of a feeble artillery duel, no important event lias occurred at Adrianoplc. LONDON, March 17. A Sofia dispatch dis-patch to tho Exchange Telegraph company com-pany says: The garrison at Adrianople hns of-fored of-fored to surrender on condition that tho Turkish soldiers aro, allowed the honors of war and ar permitted to keep their arms. The Bulgarians havo refused to accept ac-cept these conditions. ATHENS, March 7. The Greeks have occupied the town of Klissura, in Albania." The Tarries offered stubborn resistance, but wcro forced to retire in the directiou of BornL The Turkish losses wore very considerable. The Greeks lost thirteen lcillod and forty wounded. |