AUSTRIA AND TURKEY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5

AUSTRIA AND TURKEY

——« —— ■ -. OBAFT APPBOVED BY THE PORTE. BOYCOTT CEASES, [OX T.WJTPJUI'U—I'U.SiSS iSSPPIATIOS^WPIBUBT.I (Eec. January. 18, 9.52. p.m.),,.. ... ' Constantinople, January.lS.;_,The Porte has agreed .to the,, projected arrangement with negotiated by tho Grand Vizier, JKianii] Pasha".' V A draft protocol has'been submitted' , to" Austria-Hungary for -'acceptance.' ". '' '-' Constantinople, January 17."" The Turkish boycott of Austrian goods has ceased., ' '• !, ' l: -- ■{■■••■ --'i" V- ■ >>■: AUSTRIAN COMMONSEN6E. The cessation of .the Turkish anti-Austrian boycott naturally follows , the .settlement "be-' tween Constantinople aud Vienna based, on Austna-Huiigary'e payment .of compensation for the annexations. "The' Turks are certainly tryiug to blackmail us by the boycott (recently remarked the "Arbeiter Zeitung,". Vienna), but it js better to pay an indemnity now and retain the Turkish niarkefc..than to suffer -permanent. loss." , ■ ; - . , . ■ , Vienna a clump in Austro-Hungarian. feeling, the-anti-war .eiement becoming , upperliiost'. Oha , ' of them wrote:— - .-: . ;.:■■ •;;..;•..:>;. ■;.;!:.;/ ; ..;^ ; - "The former position taken up by:the dip-, loraatists, according to which the cessatioh'of the Turkish bojeott must he preliminary i. , ) commencement of. .negotiation?, ; has;.been, entirely abandoned, Tho assurariees of the Turkish aiithoritws thkt' tliey have doie-ill they can to -restrain the boycott are now generally accepted. . ■' . .■•:■-■■•« >...j..j l '■'. •- ;; _ "The anti-war party, .in .Austria, is gaininjf influence daily. the official newspapers re(lecting Governmental iptentions suggest solutions of the present jpoiitiorf'tKrorigli "'di. 1 )- - lomatio negotiations. Not. eren the alarmist organs suggest war as a possible alternative. "A complete.change;has come-over;the populace, and even in military circles the warlike tone so remarkable before is npw niftli&>d ! to" a surprisipg degree." ■ .