Tue terms of peace which Turkey offered to Greece were: (1) The cession of Thessaly; (2) the payment of an indemnity of £10,000,000; (3) the renunciation of extraterritorial privileges; (4) the conclusion of an extradition treaty. It was, of course, understood that like every other Oriental
much more than she would take in the who is making a bargain, Turkey asked for end; and we note an elaborate calculation in the Times that the outside cost of the war to Turkey was less than £1,500,000. The Ambassadors at Constantinople were instructed to tell the Sultan from the Concert of Europe that the first point was inadmissible, though a small, purely strategic rectification of the Thessalian frontier might be permitted, 'The second point was admissible, subject to a reduction of the amount of the indemnity. The third point was inadmissible and the fourth point admissible. As regards the terms offered by Turkey, the Vienna correspondent of the Times' wrote on the 16th of May It can already be regarded as beyond doubt that the majority of the Powers will refuse any important cession of Greek territory, to Turkey. It may be positively stated that they will not consent to anything beyond the surrender to Turkey of a few. strategical ints in the mountainous frontier districts order that the Turks may obtain a safe ling of demarcation. There seems, however, to be some doubt as to the real significance of the briefly-worded reference to the restoration of the former frontier, and it, will be well to await an explanation of this item, In any case, it is at variance with the repeatedly-announced intention of Russia and Austria-Hungary to maintain the territorial watts quo, If the Turks were allowed to mollify the Treaty of Berlin by force of arms, clated us they are with their military success, they: might. he tempted at no distant date to try their fortune in other directions. It hardly requires pointing out that this cannot, be countenanced. With regard to the modification of existing treaties respecting the Tegal. status of Greek subjects in the Ottoman Empire all that can_be said forthe present is that, if it be intended to imply anything approaching the abolition of the Capitulations, it will not be sanctioned by the major ty of the Powers, Further objections will most asearedly be raised to the high figure of the war indemnity, if not to the provision concerning the ports of Vole and Prevesa..
The Ambassadors in Constantinople held a conference last night after the Turkish conditions of peace became known, and the decisions they have arrived at will at once be made the object of pourparlers among the six Great Powers Meanwhile the situation ly anything but clear, and there is little ground for hope that a satisfactory issue will be speedily attained. The first task undertaken by the European concert was the Turkish ro-forms That had to be set aside when the Cretan crisis arose Before the Powers had time to provide for the future of Crete the war broke out, and now comes the difficulty Greece, which will again prevent any of the concluding "peace between Turkey and previous unsettled questions from being taken In hand. Unfortunately, the Sultan now displays a rather uncompromising attitude, and on the very morrow of his conspicuous neglect to comply with the well-known wishes of Europe the Berlin newspapers seem dis-to give him renewed encouragement.
is is likely to attract attention to the part played by German diplomacy in the present Eastern imbroglio. Daring the first period Germany stood more or less aloof, on the plea that she was less concerned than the other Powers Her reserve was scarcely calculated to strengthen the impression of substantial unanimity among the ce-operating parties, and, as a matter of fact, it must on certain occasions have embarrassed their action. Since the German Government at last made
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