THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 165, 5 July 1888, Page 3

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

THE SAME OLD STORIES. Vixnxa, May 9. Advices from Constantinople state that the plans for completing the fortifications of Adrianople andTchataldjahave been approved by ths Porte, and will soon receive the sanction of the Sultan. According to these plans the town of Tchataldja, which is about three miles distant from Constantinople, will become the centre of a large intrenched camp, eapable of holding army corps of 50,000 men and the pivot of a considerable army, the right wing of which will be protected by the Black Bea, and the left by the Sea of Marmora. The whole position will be defended by more than 100,000 men, which fact goes Ho show that in case of war the decisive battle is expected in the neighborhood of Tchataldja, and that Constantinople is being secured against an attack coming from the north east. It is stated that the works will be begun at once. Jt (s reported from Warsaw that an ordinance will shortly be published, limiting the number of foreign workmen who may be employed in mines on the Polish frontier. It seems that the Russian agitators in the Balkan States, after their failures in Servia, Boumania, and Bulgaria, have chosen Macedonia as their principal field of activity. A few days ago a band of Bulgarian fugitives, who were all provided with Russian passports, was arrested by the Turkish authorities at Stegatech. and sent to Adrianople. Rua- ’“ pilgrims ” are continually trying to Macedonia, and, Athos, where, according to trustworthy reports, the Greek convent has been almost turned into an arsenal. The Bulgarian Government is fully aware of |he dangers incident to a rising in Macedonia, and is going to echelon troops along the frontier, which will then be watched by a Turkish and Bulgarian cordon. Well-to-do people are already begining to leave Macedoria, which province it is believed will be the scene of turbulent events during the coming summer. In spite of the unsettled state of affairs, (n the East, greater confidence in the maintenknee of peace, for this year at least, 'is now being expressed in diplomatic circles ■t. The same hope is also entertained by elan diplomatists, wfio maintain that in ho ease is an aggression on the pert of HuaMs lb be expected. 4 remark to that' effect was made the other day by Prince Lobanofi fc some of his colleagues here. There is no foundation for the statement that Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria when at Gabrovo proposed a toast to the independence of Bulgaria, and the report of a military revolt at Tehirpan is equally untrue.