BULGARS AND TURKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 7

BULGARS AND TURKS.

PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT. AUSTRIA AND THE CONFERENCE. ANNEXATIONS EXCLUDED. (HI IELKORAI'It—I'UKSS ASSOCIATION—corruionT.) (Rec. October 22, 9.45 p.m.) Constantinople, October 22. High officials in Stamboul are confident that Turkey will reach an amicable arrangement with Bulgaria in connection with licr declaration of independence, tho East Rumclian tribute, and other outstanding questions. They point out, however, that Austria refuses to agree to the principle of a Conferonce unless the Porte agrees not to raise the question of Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. TURKISH RESERVES FROM ASIA. FOR THE FRONTIER. Constantinople, October 22. Twenty thousand reserves from Asiatic Turkey aro expected to arrive in Constantinople. They will be placed on the Bulgarian frontier for training. BULGARIAN DELEGATES. London, October 21. M. Dimitroff, a Councillor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of tho Bugarian delegates who have been sent to Constantinople. Ho is a persona grata in Turkjsh governing circles. SERVIA'S CLAIMS. . TERRITORIAL COMPENSATION. AUSTRIAN APOLOGY. (Rec. October 22, 9.45 p.m.) Vienna, October 22. ■ Austria has apologised for the regrettablo detention of Yukolovitch, a Montenegrin Envoy Extraordinary, who was detained for seven hours by tho Austrian authorities at Agram, while proceeding on a mission from Prince Nicholas of Montenegro to King Peter of Servia. London, October 22. Tho Belgrade correspondent 1 of "The Times" loams authoritatively that Servia's decision to demand territorial compensation from Austria is irrevocable. THE DARDANELLES. MATTER RAISED IN THE COMMONS. London, October 21. In the House of Commons, tho Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, declined to discuss tho question of the right cf passage of the Dardanelles, beyond saying that if tho matter of opening the Straits wore raised, tho Govcrumont wouldi see that British'interests were not injuriously affected.