THE EUROPEAN SITUATION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 5

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION

-f THE BALKAN CRISIS

THE TURKISH BOYCOTT.

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"A CONSTANTINOPLE... Dec. 2. Customs-, porters, and, boatmen' at Constantinople ancl Salonika, tinder Government pressure, are handling Austrian goods. The popular boycott .is expected to continue until Ausresumes negotiations.

AUSTRIAN POLICY

AERENTHAL’S POSITION SHAKEN.

Circumstantial reports have reached Berlin and St. Petersburg that Baron Aerenthal’s position has been severely shaken, partly owing to the disastrous effects of the boycott, and partly owing to European disapproval of liis ptdicy.

TROUBLE AT PRAGUE.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED

VIENNA, Dec. 2

The pro-Servian and anti-German troubles at Prague led 1 to the procla : mation of martial law.

AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. -X ’• IMPROVED RELATIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3. Satisfaction is expressed at the Porte’s correct attitude regarding the Customs porters, as their actions had proved effective in suppressing the boycott at the principal seaports. Austria is willing to negotiate regarding compensation for the annexation of the occupied provinces.

>?HE CASABLANCA QUESTION

ENGLISHMAN SELECTED AS ARBITRATOR FOR FRANCE.

LONDON, Dec. 2

France desires Sir Edward Fry to he one of the arbitrators in the Casablanca dispute. [The Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry is an ex-Lord Justice of Appeal, and was

first British Plenipotentiary to the ..Hague Peace Conference in 1907. He jis a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. He is 81 years of age.]