BULGARIAN AFFAIRS.
(AGE.SPECIALS. UNITED PIIESS ASSOCIATION.)
(Per s.s. Waihora at Auckland.)
London, October 14.
The bellicose spirit is day by day becoming more threatening, and the impression in well informed circles is that a European conflagration is imminent. The .Russian press has been very violent in it 3 attacks upon the English Government, and the official organs ' of the Russian Government have gone so far as to say that the British Consul in Sofia has been advising the Bulgarian authorities to resist the demands made by Russia to Bulgaria. To these accusations Lord Iddesleigh, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ha 3 replied in a strongly-worded protest against the accusation, addressed to M. de Giers, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. de Giers, declined to correct the statement. This deliberate affront on the part of the Russian Minister greatly incensed Lordlddesleigh, whoadopted a very unusual course, having officially issued a denial to the press, together with a denial of the charge made to the effect that efforts had been made by the English Minister to extract a promise from Prince Alexander that he would, -if re-elected by the Bulgarian Assembly, return to the throne. The Bulgarian crisis is now very acute, and a rupture may take place at any moment. Prince Bismarck is critically watching the progress of events, and daily holds long consultations with other diplomatists. Lord Iddesleigh has had several long and anxious consultations with M. de Staal, the Russian Ambassador in London. A consultation between these statesmen to-day was of an unusually lengthy duration. YVarlike rumors are being received from all parts of Europe. England has revived the project for a European Conference, but the Powers are irresolute. The general impression i 3 that war cannot long be delayed. The latest new 3is that Russia is massing troops on the Afghan frontier, and great alarm has been created in Cabul. It is further stated that Russia has men-of-war ready to cut cables.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 24
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