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Show POWERS ARE TO MEDIATE Turks Willing to Submit Issue to Their Decision and End War Constantinople, Dec. 31 The Instructions In-structions which were sent to Rechad Pasha to be presented at yesterday's session of the peaco conference In London, and which the head of the Ottoman delegation reported were In part undecipherable, wero to propose the submission of all matters at Issue between Turkey and the Balkan states to the decision of the powers, with the exception of the question of the future fu-ture possession of the AdrianopoHs vilayet. The official view is that this pro-posol pro-posol of tho porte affords the raoet expeditious means oT reaching a solution solu-tion of all difficulties. So far as the Adrianopolis vilayet is concerned, the Turkish government insists upon the absolute maintenance of its sovereign righta With this exception ex-ception tho porte Is ready to place ll8clf unreservedly In the hands of the powers for the settlement of all matters affecting the political organization organ-ization of Albania and Macedonia, tho limits of the new frontiers and the question of the Cretan Islands Powers Mu6t Supervise. The Turkish contention is that tho powers in any case evontually must supervise whatever arrangement Is made and the conflicting interests of the allies is calculated to cause indefinite in-definite delays and possible disagreements. disagree-ments. Therefore the project of placing plac-ing the case Immediately In the hands of the powers Is likely to put an end more quickly to the present equivocal situation. It,Issaidithat Jt must be mediation not arbitration. Arbitration, It Is pointed out, was possible before the conflict, not afterwards, aft-erwards, unless In questions of detail such as the delimitation of frontiers not well defined by ethnographical land marks. Servla and Montenegro arc most dissatisfied of all, in the belief that it will bo Impossible to secure impartial mediation by the powers, which include in-clude Austria, a nation which showed a threatening attitude against what these states assert Is a legitimate aspiration. as-piration. Austria an Interested Party. Austria, according to them, practically practi-cally can be considered an Interested Interest-ed party, as she has proclaimed the inviolability of Albania, forcing the Servians and Montenegrins to. abandon aban-don the Adriatic coast and has declared de-clared the necessity of extonding the frontiers of Albania for the solo pur-poso pur-poso of depriving Servla and Montenegro Monte-negro of territories they havo conquered. con-quered. Conceding that Austria does not wish to renounce her traditional policy pol-icy of expansion In tho Balkans with the object of reaching the Aegean sea, can sho, the allies ask, be considered an impartial judge in a matter In which her vital Interests may be furthered fur-thered or endangered'' Italy Feared. Tho allies also fear Italian aspirations aspira-tions Italy has protested against the occupation by Groocc of tho island of Saseno, at the entrance of tho gnK of Avlona. This attitude the administration admin-istration at Athens has considered offensive, of-fensive, claiming that Saseno was Included In-cluded In the Ionian islands taken from France by Great Britain in 1S00 and ceded to Greece in 1S6-J. Can Italy Ita-ly also be trusted to give an impartial Judgment' asks Greece. Bulgaria s attitude has not been determined. de-termined. Dr. Daneff, chief of tho Bulgarian plenipotentiaries, appeared tonight hopeful, but said nothing possible pos-sible could bo outlined until Turkey presented her demands In well defined de-fined form. Dr. Daneff did not seem adverse to European mediation, trusting "in the triumph of the prossuro of public opinion of tho Christian civilized world over the jealousies, rivalries and greed of the governments of the powers chiefly responsible for the prolonged state of servitude, the cruel waste of life and tho impoverished condition of the Balkans during the last century." Big Loan Rumor Untrue. Rumors that Turkey has. concluded conclud-ed a loan of many millions arc untrue. Tentative proposals in this direction have met with the reply that Turkey must first conclude peace if she wishes wish-es money. This recalls an analogous answor given to Count WItte. tho Russian plenipotentiary, ple-nipotentiary, shortly after he landed In New York for the Russo-Japanese conference at Portsmouth. On the voyage to tfhc United States he had arranged that a Journnllst, a mutual friend, should introduce him to J. Picrpont Morgan. In an interview with the latter. Count WItte made allusion allu-sion to the possibility of launching a Russian loan in tho United States, to which Mr. Morgan replied that he would find no money for war, but as. much as was desired after the conclusion conclu-sion of peace. t |