LONDON.
Oct 11. Rumour is current here to-day to the effect that the Sultan of Turkey has decided to meet the demands of the Powers, and has resolved at last to surrender Dulcigno unconditionally to Montenegro. Further news has been received from Teheran regarding the rising in Kurdistan. The rebels are now, in addition to pilfering the towns, massacring the inhabitants, and Hischmet Khan is collecting a large force of Persian troops to proceed against them. The Cabinet Council which had been summoned for to-day was postponed, owing to the news received at the Foreign Office that the Sultan was inclined to yield to the demands of the Powers in regard to Dulcigno. It is now known that the proposal which' had been made by the British Government to the Continental Powers for coercion of the Porte is, that the combined squadron should enter the Gulf of Smyrna, and there place' an embargo on Turkish commerce.. Austria and Germany hesitate to" -accept this proposal,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3960, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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164LONDON. Wanganui Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3960, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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