Show A place PARLEY powers waiting on the porte IS AK ro but both countries continue sending out troops LONDON may 14 the greco turkish news received reca ived today does not change the situation everything is facing on the portell Porte fl action there is no confirmation of the report printed by the journal of paris that an armistice has been arranged but the silence from the seat of war seems to indicate that edhem pashas advance on domokos may have been countermanded the sultans position is but little stronger than king georges and therefore it is not surprising that while the war feeling is so strong he hesitates at taking a step which could bo construed at constantinople as a surrender of ot toman interests in addition to this the fact that the bairam begins today lasting until sunday offers another excuse for delay the situation t the scone of hostilities appear to be that turkey is determined to occupy domokos before con benting to an armistice and that greece is convinced of the impossibility of holding out against the serious attack which edhem pasha is preparing to deliver it has been decided to evacuate domokos and to fall back upon the old frontier this plan will probably be carried out tomorrow if it has not already out and thus the way will be open d for negotiation the powers are in no mood to yield overmuch to the demands of turkey the war has had quite an unexpected effect in revealing an amazing military vitality in the sultans dominions which is in no way to the humor of russia or the other powers hence the sultan will be reminded that is was his original which led to the war that only the influence of europe has prevented a general blaze in the balkans and that it is therefore advise able for him to accept reasonable terms the activity of turkish military preparations pa rations which ia in no way abated by the diplomatic negotiations may pos bibly be explained by the following statement of a high turkish official the russians are putting a high price upon the moral support they extended to us during the armenian trouble but the demands now made upon us are so exorbitant or that their acceptance would be tantamount to resigning our title as a free nation the athens correspondent of the daily mail says that the government continues to send men to the frontany fron tand is hashing large quantities of war material |