BALKAN RAILWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 5

BALKAN RAILWAYS.

BULGARIA AND TURKEY. ARBITRARY ?P|?UR? OF A RAfLyi^Y. PORTE PROTESTS. \ (l)T |ELEGBirn—PRESS SSOClATiqN—copyßiqp.l Goqstantinqple, September 23, Q\yiiig t<i t'hp Porte siiglitjiig M. Bulgarian Agent, by not issuing an tion'to him as to tho regular diplomatists, Bulgaria, profiting by the short-livec} striljo of raiiffsymfin, .seised.tha Bulgarian section of . tho Orient Railway, and claimed a proportion of the profits hitherto paid to Turkey- . The Porte has addressed to Bulgaria a Note dojnaiidipg the restoration of the railway to the company. BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, SETTLEMENT POSSIBLE. UNLESS BULGARLVNS WANT WAR, (Rep. September 23; 0.42 p.m.) London, September 25. fThe Times" declares that tho action of the Bulgarian Government in seizing $0 Orient railway is manifestly incorrect diplomacy, find is against international Tho controversy is serious, but js capable of adjustment, unless the Bulgarians are bent on provoking a quarrel.

"A STUMPY LITTLE NATION" The rai)\vpy cpnneoting Constantinople with Aiistriq'' and ' Western 'BUTPPP passes ttwjgn Sofia, the papital of I3ulg?inii; apt} the Bulgarians' niyvo' also a schemo for a raihyay- trpm Sofia, yia Kpsten'fiil KOT.pnqyo, tq U«M» th'a object being to attract Rumpnipn pnd itn?sian 'trifoT fhp "bpttle p'f fh ? ' m the Balkan's had a burst of acfiyity last Ffbimxy, and is'lijbfp to bp pcommeneed at ftW time, espeeially in view pf the PT'Wr. WW' tion pf Turkish affairs. , , " Tha 'principality pf Bulgaria was ereptcd by tho Treaty ef signed July 13, m it was ordered by the treaty that Bulgaria, bp ppnstitnied wf autonomous, and- tributw prinpipality n'hder the suzerainty of the sultan, with a" Christian Government and a national militia. The Prinze qf Bulgaria shquW be frpwr"" elected by the population pnd epnfirmpd by the Subliinp Porte,' with flip cpnsent of the Powers.'but np iheniber of any pf thp reigning Rqnsps pt' the great Eurppcan Power? bp. elected. '■ ' , - , , , At v'aripus times it has been proposed to. make Bulgaria'' independent. Mr: ?W ter Frpsor, an antnority on tho Balkans, sppaka of 'tho prospect' of' Bulgaria making war on Turkey. Bulgaria, he describes as "a- sturdy little nation, which has thought much recently of how Japan crippled .Russia, and has drawn a moral."