Surrender of Dulcigno.
A rumor is current here to-day to the effect that the Sultan of Turkey has decided to meet the demands of the Powers, and has resolved at last to surrender Dulcigno unconditionally to Montenegro. The Kurdistan Revolt. Further news has been received from Teheran regarding the rising in Kurdistan. The rebels are now in addition to pillaging, massacring the inhabitants, and Hischret Khan is collecting a large force of Persian troops to proceed against them.
A Cabinet Council which has been summoned for to-day was postponed owing to news received at the Foreign Office that the Sultan is inclined to yield to the demands of the Powers in regard to Dulcigno.
It is now known that proposals which have been made by the British Government to the Continental Powers for the coercion of the Porte is that the combined squadron should enter the Gulf of Smyrna, and there place an embargo on Turkish commerce. Austria and Germany hesitates to accept this proposal.
Athens, October 11.
Owing to the possibility of hostilities between Greece and Turkey over the frontier question, numbers of volunteers are arriving here from other countries and offering themselves for service with the Greek army.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3681, 12 October 1880, Page 2
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