BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
— 9 PEACEFUL RAPPROCHEMENT.
THE PROBLEM OF MACEDONIA. SULTAN INCREASING 11IS TROOPS, or TjELEQßArn—pitEfls Association—cor*aiaHi St. Petersburg, Juno 11. In speeches at a banquet on board the Imperial yacht Standart, the. Tsar and King Edward laid'stress on the happy'settlement of outstanding difficulties, and the rapprochement botween tho two nations, with a viow to promote and maintain tho peace of the world. Tho Royal yacht Victoria and Albert sailed from lleval at throe this morning. She will arrive at Tho Noro on Sunday. A .passage in King Edward's speech at Reval declared that ho wa'S convinced tho recent Anglo-Russian convention would conduce to.the satisfactory and amicable settlement of some momentous questions in the future. This is interpreted to refer to Macedonia. - MOBILISATION OF REDIFS. Constantinople, June 11. Owing to tho rocrudescenco of Greek brigandage, the Sultan has ordered the mobilisation of ten moro battalions of lledifs (reservists of tho Turkish Army) in the vilayet of Monastir (which is 87 miles, west-north-west of tho Turkish port ,of Salonica, and about an equal distance north of tho Greek frontier).
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 5
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