BALKAN RIVALRY.
NOVIBAZAR CONCESSION. "STARTLING ACTION" MAY RESULT. RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATION. UY TKLECItAPn PRKSS ASSOCIATION —COmtIGUT. London, February 17. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" Vienna correspondent reports that it is expected that startling action will bo tho outcome of the Novibazar railway incidont, ..which, he says, threatens to i'e-opon Austrian and Rnssian rivalry regarding tho Danubian and Balkan policy. Ho adds: "If Baron Aerenthal, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, pursues his plan without satisfying-Russia, war in tho Near East is an ultimate certainty." , St. Petersburg, February 17. It is stated in St. Petersburg that to ! tho movement of Turkish troops, Russian forces are concentrating near the frontier.' ■ A CERMAN DENIAL. AUSTRIA SUPPORTS SERVIAN LINE TO ADRIATIC. '-' ■'---' (RecV Feb. 18; 9.38, p.m.) Berlin, Fobruary 18. Germany officially.. denies that sho .is inciting. Austrian .railway . projects -in tho Balkans, but says she regards all railways as a medium of civilisation.The Austro-Hungarian Government has in-, formed Servia they are prepared, to support the. construction, of a 1 . railway . from the Danubo,to the Adriatic Sea, via Servia.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 February 1908, Page 7
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170BALKAN RIVALRY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 February 1908, Page 7
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