Eastern Affairs.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3662, 21 September 1880, Page 2

Eastern Affairs.

RUSSIA TAKING THE PART OF

ENGLAND.

Recruiting in Greece is rapidly going *on. The army numbers 20,003 men. Volunteers are enrolling everywhere.' A camp has been formed, at Athens, and recruits are drilling in the streets! 1400 artillery horses have been purchased and advanced to Servia, with a view of forming an alliance offensive and defensive.

The Government drgan,. the Journal de St. Petersburg, contains a very remark* able article on the policy of the English Cabinet in the East. It says:—"lt is very astonishing to "observe with what persistence some Parisian journals try to create the belief that a certain mis* understanding has arisen between the Powers. It i> only necessary to call tq the remembrance of the Temps that it is contradicting historical truth in accusing. - Mr Gladstone of having stirred up the Greek question and thereby provoked the present crisis. At the Berlin Conference the Greeks have been supported by the French Plenipotentiary, Up to the end of last year it was, again, M. Waddington who took the initiative by proposing that the Powers should meet in a Conference in order to carry out the 13th protocol of the Berlin Congress. On the eve of the English elections, -and before the Gladstone Cabinet had been iustrusted with the reins of Power, M. de Freycinet sent a circular note to the various diplomatic representatives in his country, in which he stated that a solution of the Greek frontier question was very necessary, and in which he repudiated the proposals of his predecessor as being too limited. Finally, the ' Berlin Conference has unanimously adopted the frontier line proposed by the French Plenipotentiaries. We recall to mind these truths in order to prove how little the view of the Tempi is confirmed by facts. One might regard these viewi as unworthy of notice if it were not, unfortunately, only too prsbable that the statesmen at Constanticople will read these fictitious statements, and will conclude therefrom that some misunder* standing really does exist between the Powers, and will thereby be encouraged to offer further resistance."