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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 11

Prince Tcherkasski's debign for the reorganisation of Bulgaria includes the introduction [of the Russian language in the arm y" and Civil Service, and the immediate transfer ef "landed property to* the Christians. The instalments of the indemnity to be paid to the Turkish landlords are to be distributed over a space of fifty years The introduction of the Russian language involves the appointment of Russian civil and military officers, no Bulgarian being able to read a line of Russian unless he has studied the language or acquired it in Russia,