Affairs in Bulgaria.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1902, 15 November 1886, Page 2

Affairs in Bulgaria.

Judging by recent events, it would appear that Bulgaria is to be, in the end, swallowed up by Russia. The landing of sailors at Varna from the Russian men-of-war is th e first step, and a very significant been dune and in a quiet and unostentatious way, and does ,not appear to have startled the Great Powers at all. It is given out that these hundred men who have been landed eonsist simply of sailors who are returning to their families on .furlough. But this is merely a device on the part of Russia to quarter these meo at Varna. Then we get the additions! news that twelve additional guu bouts have been despatched to Varna, and the Czar has coincided with General Kaulbar’s opinion that the occupation of Varna is essential to the restoration of Russian influence in Bulgaiie. These items are sufficient in themselves to indicate the ii te»'i<ni of Rnssia to secure Vxrua as a t ie of operations for the subjugation of Bul"'” : a. Varna possesses a splendid harbor, .d its military p sition is the key ol the Balkan range. Russia ia puttiog on a bold hunt, but it may be that the appointment of Sir William Whi'e as British Ambassador to the Court of the SuHao will arouse the Gal tan to the fact that the safety of bis empire is bound up with the security of Bulgaria against Russian invasion. H ir Widiara is a clever dip't mist, and holds a high reputation as an Eastern scholar, and it was chiefly through his influence and, tactics that British influence was so strong during the negotiations which took place over the Ronmelian revolution.