War Rumours

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 102, 5 March 1887, Page 2

War Rumours

': . : "•■.— ♦— t— - :■• ■ ; By Electric Telegraph.-—Cbpvright. [beutbb's telkgbams.l Sofia,' March 3. Nothing authentic has yet been received as to the position: of affair* in Silistria, owing to, the telegraph lines having; been cut. It is generally beUeve^ .j h&wm&f tnat ithe. insurgents hare ffodfrpoftibje^ city Reports are to hand from Rustchak that the rising spread to that place and severe \ ing has taken place between theT^-- , alists and rebels, resulting in great bloodshed on both sides. It is reported thai the commander and 300 only, pi tEe* 'garrison of 8ili»---tria rebelled,- the rest remaining loyal. The commander has been arrested and the insurgents disarmed. The- j^ pression prevails in Vienna thatf this rising is the fijst. of ajseries of ; Russian attempts to manufacture an exouse for intervening in Bulgaria in the spring. , T . t : r,,* ". It is rumored that Russia is mobilising her forces in all portions of th? Empire. Caicpxta, Af arch 3. News ha» been received from Af- W ghanistan that the Ameer, ordered the impress of a large army, and. issued a proclamation calling upon bissv(bjecte to prepare f«r a Jehad, or Ivoly war, which is believed to be direofc^t against the Bussians.