TURKEY AND BULGARIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2317, 9 October 1908, Page 3

TURKEY AND BULGARIA.

AUSTRIA’S SECRET AGREEMENT,

A SERVIAN DEAIONSTRATION

ANTIPATHY TO AUSTRIA

United Press Association. Copyright

VIENNA, Oct. 7. In a rescript addressed to Baron Burian, who is charged with the administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Emperor Josef declares that it is the intention to grant a full measure of civic rights under constitutional - institutions, by means of national representatives, which will reflect the existing religious and political conditions of the two provinces. The Buda Pesth newspaper “Pester Lloyd” states-tliat if Turkey recognised Emperor Josef’s sovereignty, the Maliommedans of Bosnia-Herzegovina would bo permitted to mention the Sultan’s name in public prayers, and also allowed to hoist the Ottoman flag on minarets on, the occasion of Alahommedan festivals. Austrian opinion opposes a European Congress lest it raise differences between the Powers. PARIS, Oct. 7. Count Klievonlmlli Aletsch, Austrian Anibassador in France, inter-viewed'-at Paris by a representative of the newspaper “Gaulois, declared that everyone at the Berlin Congress knew that Austria’s occupation pi Bosnia Herzegovina was not temporary but everlasting. „ LONDON, Oct. 7. The “Times” Paris correspondent reveals that when the Berlin Treaty was negotiated, Count Andrissy, on behalf of Austria, signed a secret agreement with. Turkey, promising that Turkey’s sovereign rights in the *two provinces would not suiter infringement, and that Austrian occupation would be considered as tempor-

The British press protests against Emperor Josef’s rescript for the sophistical reasoning and shameless violation of law. . . The “Times” protests against ifntain’s association with any congress that inflicts further wrongs on Turkey. It advises the-Sultan to acquiesce in the present moral injury under protest, anti thus render the C-ongiess “"SSTAroms/o.;. 7. Turkish newspapers deprecate war unless further aggression is intended. The higgest procession seen m Constantinople, including all classes, both civil and military, and a large contingent from the Hellenic comny, cheered the British, French, and Russian Embassies. „. . Tl ., Telegrams conveyed to Ring J-d----ward and the British Government Turkey’s profound gratitude and admiration of the British sense of justice in the The “Kvelniisclic Zeitung” states that although Austria technically infringes the international arrangement she really only gives a new constitutional form to a de facto condition ot things. Germany intended to support her comrades in the Triple Alliance fin order to avoid complications. The “Kvclnische” severely. blames, the Bulgarians’ 7. /A mass -meeting of ten thousand people at Belgrade urged the GovernSt to prevent the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and oflermg their fortunes and lives to promote tll AiistriVs military attache at Belgrade has been recalled. S Anti-Austrian demonstrations occurred at Belgrade. The windows of the Austrian Legation were smashed; University students went to tne Turkish Legation, where 'tliey chee. od the Minister, and received * kish flag, with which they marenet in procession. . , i •„ The newspapers appear Witn a . heading, entitled “War with Austria.”