THE BALKANS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14386, 2 December 1908, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

AUSTRIA MORE CONCILIATORY. EMPEROR ANXIOUS FOR PEACE. ?ro!s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright' CONSTANTINOPLE, December 1. (Received Dec. 1, at 9.55 p.m.) ' ■ It is reported at Stamboul that Austria is more conciliatory. She has postponed, M, Pallavicini's denarture. ' LONDON. November 30. The Times' Vienna correspondent says that ,lho Emperor Joieph is determined to maintain peace, and that he is displaying a vigour that is not welcome to the inspirers of the authors of the annexation policy, -which, according to other correspondents, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the. Austria-Hungary throne) fanatically favours. REPORTED AMBUSH. VIENNA, December 1. (Received L'ec. 1, at 9.55 p.m.) . A Hungarian newspaper publishes a telegram from Knsehan stating that a detachment of the 34th Infantry, which was proceeding to Bosnia, lost four men owing to an ambush prepared by a Servian band. The telegram is unconfirmed, PRO-SERVIAN DEMONSTRATION. ■ AUSTRIAN FLAG INSULTED.' VIENNA, November 30. Thousands of pro-Servian Czech demonstrators at Prague insulted the Austrian flag and cheered a team of English footballer* who were among the onlookers. December 1. (Received Dec. 1, at 9.55 p.m.) Renewed racial riots have occurred at Prague. The gendarmerie cleared tho Streets at the point of the bayonet. TURKEY'S ABSTENTION. - LONDON, November.3o. The Times' Constantinople correspondent says that, notwithstanding Baron Aehrenthal's threats, Turkey has abstained from encouraging the overtures of the other Balkan States.