A Conflict of Testimony.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12588, 8 October 1908, Page 5

A Conflict of Testimony.

PARIS, October 7.

Count Khevenhullcr (Austrian Ambassador to »France). interviewed by the Paris newspaper Gauloiis, declared that everyone at the Berlin Congress knew that Austria's occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina was not temjiofary, but everlasting.

LONDON, October 7.

The Times' Paris correspondent 6ays it is revealed that when the Berlin Treaty was negotiated, Count Andraesy, on behalf of Austria, signed a secret agreement with Turkey, promising that Turkey's sovereign rights in the two provinces would not suffer any infringement, and that the Austrian occupation would be considered temporary.