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Show TURKEY'SAID TO BE SHOWING SIGNS OF YIELDING TO LITTLE BULGARIA 'London, Sept. 22. The Ealkan situation today uresents a somewhat puzzling aspect. Turkey ift showing signs of yielding yield-ing to the Bulgarian demands, and it iJ evident from -the daily meeting of the council of ministers at Yildiz Kiosk that .some sort of "negotiations are in progress with th object of avoiding war. According to a dispatch to the Dally Mail from Constantinople these councils -concern two possibilities either to make .an arrangement satisfactory to the Macedonians Mace-donians of obtain from the great powers promises or neutrality if it is found impossible im-possible to avoid a war. - Apparently both Turkey and Bulgaria are anxious to repudiate having taken the initiative in the negotiations. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph asserts that the- overtures came "from Turkey and w-ere welcomed by the Bulgarian minister on the condition 'that deeds were substituted for words and that the cessation of wholesale massacres should become an accomplished fact. He adds that a pacific solution, it it comes, will emanate from Constanti-I Constanti-I noule. whore the .Bulgarian representa-I representa-I tivc is invested with full powers and the negotiations are said to be proceeding utisractorilv. The same correspondent say. in the meantime devastations by fire and sword continue and the Bulgarian government has received from trustworthy sources a gruesome tale of massacre, torture, indignities indig-nities and burnings, in many instances the victims being slowly roasted alive. The assertion is made in another Sofia 1 telegram that the sultan will issue an irade on Thursday granting the demand for a mixed commission, but this statement state-ment is not confirmed, and would seem to be negatived by the dispatches from Constantinople. A Monastir correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, writing Sept. 15, says the bul-earian bul-earian list of villages pillaged and burned reaches a total of 104. According to a dispatch from Odessa the whole Russian Black sea fleet is kept on a war footing in readiness for any eventualitv. |