THE BALKAN TROUBLE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 764, 29 December 1908, Page 2

THE BALKAN TROUBLE.

RUSSIAN PJiESS CRiTIC^o^S. '. IS AUSTRIA SPARRING FOR lIIYLE ? I i»Y EIiECTBIC TE!..EGIUrfI— COFXaiGHX.. IPEE FBKSS ASSOCIATION .J St. Petersburg, December 2S. iiuJigarian, Italian, Servian, and Turkish papers commend Lsvolsky's , speech •iii'*fche Duma. i The Rusian press, however, severely denounces M. Isvolsky's reference to . tiiie .-'destiny of the annexed provinces, as amounting to a confession of Russia's impotence to declare war, and ' calculated bo enck>uraige the Austrians ' to insist on the most extreme pretensions. 1 The Novoe Vi'emya suggests that [ Austria only proposed the preliminary ' negotiations in order to delay war un- | til the spring.^ ; (Received Dec. 28, 8.25 a.m.) [ London, Dec. 28. : The London Times says that M. Is- ■ volsky, Rusian i\linister for Foreign , Affairs, has sacrificed his popularity in Russia for the sake of European ' tranquillity. • '. Tlie Times urges Austria to come to . terms quickly, since the existing situ- [ ation constitutes danger^a danger, ', which is becoming more" menacing as the winter slips away. i Rome, Dec. 28. , The Austix)-Rusian tension perturbs . Italy. Newspapers declare that in the , ovent of a coiiflkit witih Austria, >i , large number of Italians will volunteer to serve with" Servia. Besides being affected by the cold weather, a lrumber of people in Bosnia are suffering fz-om typhus fever.