THE TURKISH ARMY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 23, 26 July 1895, Page 2

THE TURKISH ARMY.

PRESIDENT KRUGER OUT OF SORTS. (Per Press Association). Constantinople, July 24. Reports are current that the reserves ai'Q to be mobilised along the whole seaboard of the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan has amnestied all the Armenian political prisoners except those sentenced under the Common Law. Pretoria, July 24. M. Fanl Kruger, President cf the Trans vaal, holding that his position is similar to that of a sovereign, bitterly resented Mr Chamberlain's message congratulating him on the opening of the Delagoa railway. He believed the Queen onght to havo personally telegraphed to him. Rio Janeiro, July 25. Great excitement is caused in Brazil by the annexation of tho island of Trinidid in the South Atlantic, by England The Brazilian Government has vmdo a warm protest declaring that the island is part of the Republic's territory. London, July 25. Obituary —The Bishop of Winchester. At a meeting at Edinburgh of the debenture holders in the Australian Deposit and Mortgage Company the proposed scheme of rearrangement was favorably received. A committee was appointed to consider details and the meeting adjourned for a fortnight. The Times states that the Japanese have delayed arranging with the Chinese the terms of the commercial treaty until the elections are competed, in the hope of secuing British support against Russia.