THE OUTLOOK IN EASTERN EUROPE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 90, 19 April 1893, Page 4

THE OUTLOOK IN EASTERN EUROPE.

» Tes Pester Lloyd has been showing m a Bsriea of articles how easily the Russians oan whsn they like land thirty or forty thousand men ia Constantinople some twelve or fifteen honrs after leaving Odessa. It speaka with on air of knowledge of a secret agreement between Ruisia, France, and Greece, for cooperation m the Mediternean, and declares that the thres combined fleets would be strong enough to keep the British warships from going to Constantinople, and that Greek coaling stations being, by the treaty referred to, closed to the English, our vessels sfeortly after the outbreak of bestilities would ba compelled to return to Malta. The writer significantly takes no acoount of tha Turkish fleet: "The three largest ironclads have been lying unarmed since 1878 m the arsenal of Constantinople, trfa machines &r.i ir»n parts eaten up with rußt, and the new vessels whether laid down or ordered frem foreign dockyards will not be finished for years." Reports continue to reach London from Vienna and Sofia of Russia intrigue m Bulgaria.