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Show OTTOMANS ACCEPT I POWERS' PROPOSAL I Grand Council of Empire Votes in Favor of Ambas- H sadors' Note to Bring About the Early Con- H elusion of War. CAPITAL AND PROVINCES ARE ENDANGERED I Turks Warned Against Extending Hostilities and I of Need of Powers' Moral and Material Sup- H port in Future Fate of Aegean Islands !H to Be Determined Later. H Constantinople, Jan. '11 The grand jeouncll of the Ottoman empire voted today in favor of accepting ihe pro posal put forward bj the European powers for the purpose of bringiug ' about the conclusion of peace The note handed to the porte on January 17 by the European ambassadors ambassa-dors at Constantinople called the Ot-! Ot-! toman government's attention to the "grave responsibility it would assum I if by resistance to their councils it ' should prevent the re-establishment ' of peace. It would onl have itself to blame it" the prolongation of the u.u j had as a consequence to put in ques tion the fate of the capital and perhaps per-haps to extend hostilities to the Asiatic Asi-atic provinces of Turkey.' Warning of Powers. The note continued, that in thai case "the Turkish government could not count upon the success of the efforts ef-forts of the powers to preserve it from the dangers against which they have alreadj warned It and which they once more warned It to avoid " The powers then called the attention atten-tion of the Ottoman goernment to the fact that after the conclusion of peace it would have need of the moral and material support of the powers to repair the evils of the war. to consolidate its position at Constant! Dople and to develop Its vast Asiatic territories The note pointed out that the Turkish government could count on the efficacy of the benevolent supiorT of the powers only so long as It deferred de-ferred to their counsel, inspired by the general interests of Europe and Turkey. The powers then advised Turkey to consent to the cession of Adrianople and to leave to them the fate of the Aegean islands. |