RUSSIA AND BULGARIA.
FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS. LONDON, July 11. The Russian Imperial Bank, or according to other accounts, the Russian Government, advances Bulgaria eight million francs (£320,000) to enable ner to avert insolvency, and has used jta influence to induce French capitali-.ts to lend her an additional eighty million francs (£3,200,000). It is ejected that Bulgaria will in. return lease to' Russia the seaports of Burghas and Varna, on the Black Sea, and that Prince Ferdinand’ on becoming King will marry Princess Xenia of Mon. tenegro.
Austria is seriously disquieted at her declining influence in the Balkan Peninsula.
VIENNA, July 11. The “Neue Frei Press” newspaper says that Bulgaria has sold her independence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 5
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