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Show NEWS REGARDED AS SIGNIFICANT IN AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM. Jan. l. The announcement announce-ment today of the abrogation by Turkey of the treaties of Paris (1S56,) and Berlin (,1S7j), corning close upon the heels of j.ha receipt in Berlin of the entente reply co the central allies' peace offer was regarded re-garded here tonight by close observers as of tremendous significance relative to the future developments in the peace agitation. agi-tation. By a neutral diplomat close to the German Ger-man legation Turkey's action was pronounced pro-nounced to be the forerunner of an early announcement of the central powers' peace terms to the world. The informant of the International News Service based his assertions upon the significant fact tiiat one of the treaties in question, that of Berlin, fixed the fates of the three eastern kingdoms conquered by the central powers during the present war Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro. .Each was declare!- by the treaty independent inde-pendent principalities. Moreover, the three provinces that are fighting so conspicuously in the Rumanian campaign, the Dobrudja, Moldavia and Bessarabia, were among the, chief subjects , of the deliberations at the Berlin congress, con-gress, j ritory (including Xisli, on the Orient railway, rail-way, vital for tiie central powers' continued con-tinued possession of LltaL road). Montenegro received accessions of territory. ter-ritory. Russia was reinstated in the possession posses-sion of the strip of Bessarabia taken from her after the Crimean war. Wallaehia and Moldavia were made practically independent, later to be incorporated in-corporated in Rumania. Joint Discussions. The Berlin treaty further stipulate '1 that only joint discussions by the powers, not separate actions, couid determine t he status of Turkey. Russia, by the Berlin convention, was left in possession of moat of her conquests con-quests In Turkish. Armenia and Rumania received a place on the Danube commission, commis-sion, instituted by the Paris treaty. Parties to the Berlin treaty were Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Ttaly and Turkey. Greece, Rumania. Serbia and Montenegro, the nations na-tions most vitally concerned in the treaty, were represented by delegates, but were not member.". Tiie treaty of Paris neutralized the Black sea, openiny it to the merchant marine of every nation, but barring from it forever all war vessels of every nation na-tion and binding the czar and the sultan to an agreement not to establish upon its coasts any military fort or arsenal. Turkey was formally admitted to the European concert, the powers contracting to respect her independence and integrity. |