THE BALKANS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, yesterday. A leading member of the Young Turkish party declares the programme of the conference is riot acceptable. The compensation offered to Turkey is illusory. The Turkish boycott is paralysing 'Austrian commerce. .Thirty Austrian Lloyds steamers are .unable to load or unload. .'. , The Turksi..4lbanians, and Greeks^ and even the Gypsies,. ai*e ajl actively" hostile., . V';. • M» Ljvblsky has left London to visit Paris and Berlin. ;' '. ■.■■;;■.■ LONDON, yesterday. The Sublime ;Porte, in a : circular to Turkish ambassadors abroad regarding the military activity pf Bulgaria, reiterates Turkey's peaceful intensions;, and L a.dds tfet should Bulgaria persist in the present attitude, Turkey will be reluctantly compelled to take precautionary measures, and Trouid-. decline any responsibility in i:ho event of > a conflict occurring. BERLIN, Saturday. A semi-official communique in Berlin indicates that Germany will adopt a cool, waiting attitude in regard to the; conference, pending Tiirkey's and Austria's acceptance of the pro- 1 gramme. : . V . The Austrian and German press ridicule the suggestion that Servia and Montenegro. should be compen-, sated -at, Austria's expense. PARIS, Saturday t v The Turkish ambassador at Paris is unfavorable to the programme, and is disappointed with Britain's and France's sympathy. He considers compensation is illusory: '< BERLIN, Saturday. The Kaiser has congratulated the Ejnpefror Joseph on the successful annexation,: and lias promised support. CONSTANTINOPLE, yesterday. - Twenty experienced gendarmerie officers at Salonika have been sum-' moned to Constantinople for police duty owing; to the untrustwdrthinesa of the Yildiz troops,~as shown on the occasion of the lynching of a gardener, arid "to prevent a recurrence ofdisorder. Fifteen lyhchers have been arrested.- ■ " • "

. SOFIA*- Saturday. • Bulgariav replying, to- Germany and Austria, declined. >to seek Turkey's ■consent to the railway negotiations, jand again informed the Powers of. her pacific disposition; . .