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EUSSIA MOVING TEOOPS. ! AN UNEXPECTED SEIZURE OF ! EEZEROUM. By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. [PER trNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION/.] f St. Petersburg, February 15. The whole of the freight traffic has been stopped on the railways in Southern Russia in order to facilitate the conveyance of troops, which are being despatched to the various stations on the western frontier. Over half a million Russian troops with 2000 guns, are stationed on the western bank of the River Dnieper. The sanitary arrangements of the camps are extremely bad, and large numbers of the men are stricken down with disease. Constantinople. February 15. It is feared that Russia meditates an early seizure of Erzeroum, in Armenia. The Forte, yielding to the representations of M. Melidoff, Russian Ambassador to Turkey, has released the fdrty-one^ insurgents who were arrested for entering Roumelia with the object of instigating a revolt at Bourgas. London, February 15. It is considered improbable that England and France will agree to the amendments proposed in the Suez Canal Convention by the Sultan. J?ABI8, February 16. M. Fleurens, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies last evening, strongly advocated the necessity of immediately strengthening both the army and navy.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 85, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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