NEAR EASTERN CRISIS.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 5

NEAR EASTERN CRISIS.

1 WHAT RUSSIA IS DOING. Bt El.K,c:i:lo T KI.Kf;itAI'H eni'Vl.'i s;ii I'EH L'Nlltll CHESS ASSOCIATION VIENNA, March l','. In reply to Austria's notification oi the Austro-Turkish linancial anangenient, M. Isvolsky (Russian Fureiji'-i Minister) declared his readiness, in accordance with his circular of December last, to come to an uii'lorstandiii"; with the signatories to the Rerlin Treaty lei holding a conference rec,ardine; Bosnia and Iler/.oo;uviua and other point,-, in the programme. This has caused groat umbrage in Vienna, the policy there aimiiiß at the restriction of the conference ro re;:htration of accomplished fact.-. Russia, with tin- support of (ire;.; Britain and Frame, is seeking to loinilliale an agenda acceptable to Austria and Servia with a view to ciiilin» the crisis, which continues to be critical.