European Affairs

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 2

European Affairs

MORE WAR RUMOURS. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [kbutbb's telegrams. 1 , "Sofia, March 5. Information has been^received that Servia and Roumania are massing troops on. the Bulgarian frontiers*/ -increasing hostility to Bulgaria is being manifested, by the Montenegrins, Albanians, and Turks. The trial of the ringleaders in the revolt at Rustchuk was concluded today, .nine being sentenced to death and. many others condemned to pena servitude. : ,c.j : : : >; .■■.:.: ;•. r.< - March <6. Among those sentenced to /dead* ,-—. for participation in the recent riainfe fW at Rustchuk are Colonel Tilon*, Major Ouzonoff, and a Russian" civilian named Bolmann. European consuls at Rustchuk hare recommended that an appeal for mercy on s their behalf be made to the Regents at Sofia. The sentence of death for rebellion was today carried out at Rastehiik Ist; the cases of Majors Ouzonoff and Ponoffy^rie captain, and four lieutenant* of the Bulgarian army, and two/ civilians, all of whom were shot, j f i-STJPBtr«S«Byio3 March 5. - The Official Messenger, in an artici© tondajr, jjmtifiddthe' conspirators in Silistra, declaring the revolt a fresh proof of the abnormal condition of affairs in Bulgaria. Nevertheless, the Russian 1 Government; : it : ' 'stafesi Hoping that the rights of the Bulgarian peoplewould be secured; will adhere to their previous course in regard to the Balkan Peninsula. —• -- London, March 6. The Morning Post states that Baron • de Lesseps is about to proceed to Berlin for the purpose of offering a guarantee of neutrality on the part oi France in the event of a European war, on condition that Germany will support her in the matter of the British «{ccupation of Egypt, and secure French supremacy in that country. i The Standard states that Russia "has issued a circular note to the Great Powers intimating, that the Russian Empire resum^ action in European affairs.' The ■Standard, in an article on the subject says this markß a new chapter in the 'Eastern question. It is stated on the same authority that a note v has 'also x been sent by ' Russia to the Porte' deuianding payment of the war indemnity. ~ Two hundred insurgents altogether t . have been icilleU arid wuuuiled iv the 1 risiug at Rustchuk and Silutria. The populace threaten 1 tv lyuoh the prisou•ra ttuless, the death aeuteuutts aro carried out."