MACEDONIAN REFORMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 9 April 1908, Page 5

MACEDONIAN REFORMS

SIR EDWARD GREY'S PROPOSALS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.} : ! LONDON, April 8, A Blue, Beck, iroued % shows that a . rapprctichment in connection with the Rusfcian i.nd Britifti plans dealing with . reforms in Macedonia ia slowly progressing, but aa the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs furgets- the fact that civil rsfcruiß are starved through lack of funds!, Sir Edward Grey proposes that the civil needs be a first charge ton.; the Macedonian. .Budget,- and the balanftei'Jiarid'ed to Ihc Porte for milir, tpry lequu-eu^emtß. Ho warns, the .Porte thatth*^ present deficit must.be made good, otherwise! 1 . Britain will withdraw her conditional -sanction to •the 3 per cent iueratse in m&* Cus--totns. . ■ **' THE FINANCIAL POSITION. LONDON, April 8. Tho Times says that wlult the det•ficit in the Macedonian; Budget is .£300,000 sterling, negotiations have been renewed for heavy commitmente <en the part of Turkey for the construction of three fresh secticnt> of the Baghdad railway ' •>. "