Show I PRINCIPAL POWERS AGREE r H HON ON PROGRAM TO ia THE BALKAN Oil S I iI Jf Bulgaria Independence 11 Will Be Bc RecogniZed ant au I All 1 Her Hr Financial Obligations to Turkey Are Ar Determined f 5 fe and Discharged LONDON Oct 15 Great Britain R Russia and nd Fi France r nc lave reached an agreement ona on-a program to be l to the other pow powers rs as a basis basi for discussion by the tho pi pro proposed posed European conference to settle the Balkan q question l fio The proposals to be he laid before the conference are e eight gl in number Th first is to the effect that articles 1 to to 22 of 9 t the treaty of Berlin which relate to Bulgaria and east cast eastern Rumelia Ru- Ru melia luelia shall be replaced by stipulations st pul recognizing t the independence of Bulgaria as at present constituted an and determining the financial obligations of Bulgaria Bulgar a toward Turkey New y clauses probably will settle settle also the qu ques question stion s- s tion of the Oriental railway ay The second and third proposals are re that the powers shall take tako no note noto to of the annexation by Hungary Austria ary o of Bosnia Bosnia Bos Dos nia and Herzegovina and the tho return of the of to Turkey Tho The fourth article relates to Crete It replaces article 2 23 of tho treat treaty of ot Berlin by b- clauses recognizing the tho annexation annex annexation of Crete to Greece and md dot determining ermin- ermin in lug ing the tho financial obligations of Greece in respect to Crete toward Turkey It Jt is ill understood that the tho powers under under uner un un- der er whoso protection C eto has been Russia Great Grent Britain Franco France and nd Italy will ilI settle the Cretan question tion in in con con- cerl Turk referring it to tho conference It rt is pro proposed o cd also ilso that the tho sc second ond part of article 23 of 1 the he orJin treaty which provi provides c special regulations ons f for r tho government o of other parts pf European Turkey shall e. e cf ase ae I to have force T when he the powers are arl a assured as- as surer that a settlement has been cf Tho The fifth proposal propos is to the that arrangements similar to the above shall t appl apply to the Armenian provinces plo of Th Turkey VAs V r As to Montenegro Thc Tho bo sixth article deals with Monten- Monten c o Tho The m lights i of f iv f nt arc limited t by article 29 9 of ct tile tUc treaty of Berlin Derlin It Iti i ji proposed that ar 1 articles ar- ar tides 26 t to 10 33 3 in of th I treaty shall bo oc o condensed to a ai Single aingie ar 31 ni abrogating all nIl tho the restrictions imposed im posed by tho treaty under the tho original article 29 9 9 which it is proposed to st sweep ej away away The The- seventh point in the program p is t the e statement nt that it is' is desirable to seek eek I and give na compensation to Servia and md I Montenegro by bT a ratification of the tho Bosnian Boy Bos nian and frontiers n adjoining ad- ad l- l joining Not l This Thi is tak taken n to imply im pI ply that a strip will bo be taken from t the bl territory annexed l by hy Austria Jr The The eighth proposal concerns the River Danube and aud declares it i is desirable desir able to revis revise the regulations Danube traffic so as 35 to give e larger r rights to the states bordering on the river The Tho ei eight ht articles of the program arc nrc followed by bv a declaration that as ns th the new Ottoman constitution on hadow a reorganization of tho the judicial system 8 and a remodeling of Turkish 1 legislation legisla tion in in conformity with the princ principles of other European states the tho powers are aro prepared to consider in ill iii concert with Turkey er 20 so soon as these reforms nrc are realized re rt- re- re the best hest means of doing away with capitulations It is declared a ao aso o that this o occasion could be taken to consider con con- consider sider aider the abolition of the now maintained by foreign powers in Tar Tur key Where Draft Is Silent Tho draft of this pro program ram makes no mention of the straits between n the tho I Black sea iea and the Mediterranean which of course course means the as well wol as the Dardanelles Dai s. s But these straits traits have been a n subject of protracted discussion between S Sir r EdW Edward rd Grey Grer- the British foreign n secretary and aDd M M. I Iswolsky the Russian minister of If foreign for far eign affairs M. M Iswolsky does not ask that this question bo submitted to the conference what ho desires is is that Great Britain and France help Russia to negotiate wi with h Turkey for the opening of these straits to Russia Every desire desiro to arrive at Jt an understand understanding understanding under under- stand standing In but sl safeguarding nr at the smie same time the interests of Turkey has be been n shown In tho first fir pl place ce Russia wanted wanted want want- ed cd the ri right ht to send warships through tho the str straits its in time of peace that is to say when Turkey was not at nt war war under special conditions and special In replying Great Britain asked that tho the same right be bo accorded all alt na na- na- na To this thir Russia demurred arguing arguing ing that foreign warships n could only desire desiro to enter the Black sea ea for r belligerent belligerent bellig bellig- erent purposes Ultimately Ultimate an a agreement agreement agree agree- ree ment apparently was as reached by which the tho rights of in ingress ess and egress granted Russian warships shall bo ho accorded on tho the same conditions to the ships pf of any other power not at W war r with Russia |