The Czar of Russia has also written to the Sultan, urging him to accept the conditions offered, and not delay the negotiations by making demands on Greece which it will be impossible for her to accept.
The delay in the peace negotiations is causing considerable alarm in Europe.
It seems that the Sultan's main object in writing to Germany and Russia has been to gain time.
It is thought that he hopes the Powers will disagree and leave him free to do as he pleases.
If, however, they still remain as firm as they are at present, he thinks the delay may give time for the Mohammedans to calm down.
These people are now so excited over the success that has attended the Turkish arms, that it is feared they will revolt against the Sultan if he agrees to give up Thessaly.
We told you about the visit of the Sheik ul Islam to the Sultan.
These Sheiks are very powerful persons. It is perhaps a little difficult to make you understand just how powerful they are, living as you do in a country where such conditions do not exist.
The Sheiks are leaders of numerous tribes of people to whom their word is absolute law, and whom they command as entirely as a father commands his children, and for the reason that the tribesmen are in a measure the children of the Sheik.