THE SULTAN AND THE POWERS.
Novibazai; is capital of a sanjnk (a Turkish administrative distl-ibt of tlio second grade! The sanjakiiv which, under the of Berlin (18(8), Austria maintains-a military' force, is; a tongue projecting nortli-wcst between Montenegro awl Servia as far as tlio frontier of Bosnia, and lias an area of 2810 square miles (exclusivo, of the district of Mitrovitsa, detached from-it sinco the treaty) and a population of about 150,000, exclusivo of the Austrian .garrison of . about 3000 .A leading purposo of King Edward's visit to Austria in the latter'half of last year was understood to_ be the.bringing of Austria and -Russia into lino, in order : to force a schomo of/Balkan reforms on Turkey* In that purposo King Edward was helil to havo. j succeeded. The Sultan apparently is .''tihdenyoui'ing to break up the concert in " tho -tlhichonourwl fashion, by'oxciting mutual jealousies with concessions. ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 5
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