CABLE MESSAGES.
[Special to the Argus.] LONDON. • February 20. Insurgents in Thessaly have beaten the Turks at Volo. Six hundred being killed. The Channel fleet has been ordered to . Gallipoli. A new fleet forming. ... Cardinal Pekki has been elected Pope by the Conclave. He assumes the name Leo thirteenth. Papers presented to: Parliament show that SchouvalnfE informed .Lord Derby in June of the terms of peace which are identical with Russia’s present demand. — * : —. * ■ [Reutier’s Telegram to Press Agency.] LONDON.. . February 19. Jnthe German Parliament .Bismarck said he did" not believe’• there would' be a European war. ' ■ Congress assembles during the first fortnight in March. ■ . February 20. In to-day’s sitting of the German Parliament :Bismarck, while expressing disbelief in war, said that Germany would not interfere between Russia and. Turkey, but was willing to mediate. The President of the Austrian Council of Ministers said that Austria reserves the interests of Monarchy and objects to shifting the ballance power.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 298, 23 February 1878, Page 2
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157CABLE MESSAGES. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 298, 23 February 1878, Page 2
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