BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, 23 December 1908, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.] iPEE PRESS ASSOCIATION..) (Received Deoember -_>, 8.20 a.m.) REFORMERS IN PERSIA. London, Deoember 22. A party of 3UO Nationalists, at Teheran, failing to secure the restoration of the Constitution, took refuge in the Turkish -.egation. SAxMOAIN TRUcBLES. Jiei _n, December 22. Referring to Auckland cablegrams regarding unrest m bamoa, it is semi-omc-ially announced at Berlin that neither tiie United States of America nor the JUnglish authorities- ware Jifceiy to interfere with isolated intrigues amongst chieftains which the German authorities do not consider serious. T_L_ BALKANS TROUBLE. St.. Petersburg, December 22. M. lsvols_y,Ru__an _b .reign Minister, favours some, form of autonomy tor Bosnia ohd Herzegovina, as a safeguard for the interests of ail concerned. London, December 22. Router's agent at Constantinople reports that _±. P__avi_ni, the Austrian Ambassador, has submitted to the Grand Vizier concrete proposals indicating willingness to agree to an increase of the Customs to 15 per cent, and . _ere some compensation on account of Bosnia's and Herzegovina's share in the Ottoman pubiic debt, to the extent of four million pounds, lf Turkey persists, Austria will prefer counter-claims arising out of expenditure over the Bosnia and HerzegovinarNovibazar railway amounting to 20 million crowns. ' «a__M_____a______„