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Show PROMISES WORTHLESS Turks Place No Reliance in Powers and Bitterly Bitter-ly Arraign Them London, Jan 18 Ozman Nizaml Pasha. T rkish ambassador to Germany, Ger-many, now here In connection with the peace negotiations issuea s statement state-ment today bitterly arraigning the European powers for their attitude in the joint note delivered to the porte. 'Four months aco," he said. "Europe "Eu-rope proclaimed Its detetmiuation to maintain the state of things existing before the war. whatever tue result of the conflict mlqht be Now the powers are making open allusions to the possible loss by Turkey of Constantinople Con-stantinople and some of the Asiatic provinces. No Reliance on Powers ' What reliance can Turkey place nn the powers' promise to 'exclude all menace to the security of Turkey" when Europe has just siven tangible evidence of how little her promises are worth?" wub such evidence of European sympathy " he added, "nobody couia consider the porte t'o exacting if it asked for an explanation oT what the powers mean by moral and materia! support,' Judged bj the efflcai j ol the benevolent support so lavishly poured oui in the ambassadorial note The same can be said about the powers' promise concerning the isl ands oi the Aegean sea. i-ven aumu-iiriE aumu-iiriE i,M ili,. siU of argument that Turkey is read to yield tnese islands, isl-ands, how can she cede tnem to the powers on this" The simple promise prom-ise that their settlement will ex-clude ex-clude all menace to the security or Turkey, when Europe's promises mean so little?' Great Reserve Maintained. The greatest reserve s maintained by the Turkish plenipotentiaries in regard to the note handed to Ihe Ot- toman government All discussion or the merits oi the document is avoided avoid-ed bj i hem on the ground that the porte alone has all the elements lor an exhaustive judgment. The delegates of the Balkan allies as a Whole are relatively satisfied With the situation, but they do not beli . the end of the negotiations lb near, as the porte is not likely to give a categorical answer to the note oi i he powers ks to Demonstrate Ability. The Greeks hope to be aide to demonstrate dem-onstrate to the powers that Greece can occupy the islands, giving such guarantees as will secure the execution execu-tion of the will of Europe, namely, "to exclude all menace to the security se-curity of Turkey" In the future Montenegrin Note. The Montenegrin government In a long note addressed to the powers !,,., relative to the elimination ot Albania, declared that the annexa-I annexa-I tlon of Scutari. Ipek and Jakova by Montenegro is necessary to that king-dom's king-dom's securli y and political ami eco i imii development and rather than reiiounee this logical and natural ag-I ag-I srandizement of its territory, Monte-I Monte-I uei.ro would prefer to dlsnppear as a political factor In the Balkans |