3 JANUARY 1914, Page 10

The reply of the Triple Alliance to Sir Edward Grey's

recent Note an the Aegean and Albanian questions was delivered on Tuesday. Beyond the fact that the reply has taken this concerted form, and thus superficially suggests that in dealing with the Near East the Powers are once more Inclined to fall into two camps, there is nothing in the language used to dash the hope that the final settlement will be a settle- ment harmoniously arrived at by the whole Concert. The members ot the Triple Alliance consent to Sir Edward Grey's proposal that the Greeks shall be allowed to remain in Southern Albania till January 18th, and it is implied that Greece might perhaps be compensated elsewhere. The reply, in brief, Is quite friendly, but leaves the settlement still to seek.