THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 5

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

United Press Association- -By Electric Telegraph —Oopi-ight. Belgrade, January 6.

M. Milovanovitoh (Servian Minister for Foreign Affairs) has informed M. Forgach (Austrian Ambassador at Belgrade) that the Austrian press has mistranslated his speech in which lie merely declared that Austria’s Balkan mission in the first stage tended to the subjection of the Serb provinces, whereas Russia meanwhile contributed to the creation of free Balkan States. He claimed that the speech was pacific and the incident is now closed. Berlin, January 6. The Deutsche Revue, in an article mentioning foreign attempts to weaken Austrian-German friendliness by producing internal dissension declares that this was illustrated in the case of’Germany by the effects of a newspaper article, containing antiquated accusations which were cunningly put together. Yesterday’s Berlin newspapers note this reference to the interview published in London in November and describe the Revna article as the Emperor’s message.