THE BALKAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3025, 23 October 1908, Page 5

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

CABLE NEWS.

United Prss3 Awoai-ition-By El-otrio Telegraph Copyrijlit,

THE DARDANELLES QUESTION.

BRITAIN AND HER INTERESTS,

Received October 22, P. 20 a.m

LONDON, October 21

In the House \:i Cnumiutis, the Secretarv oi State for Foreign Affairs, Sir E.iwt.ivl Grey, declined to discuss the que.-tiYn 1.1 th? Dardanelles, i.evord saving i,b.at it the matter or chairs the titraita was r«ii?ed. the Government won!.! see that British init-rcit:! were not injuriously a lie.: ted. BULGARIA'SDELEGATES TO CONSTANTINOPLE. Receive j October 22, P a.m. LONDON, October 21. M. Dimitroff, a Councillor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, i= one of the derates who have beer, sent to Constantinople. He is a peidona grata in Turkish governing circles. DETENTION OF M. VUKOLITCH. AUSTRIA APOLOGISES. Received October 22, 9.45 am. VIENNA, October 22. Austria has apologised for tt.e regrettable detention . f M. Vukolitch. The Austrian authorities at Agram (the carnal of Croatia and Slavonics, 16u iiiiies iouth-weat of Vienna) forcibly detained and searched M. Vukolitch, Montenegrin Envoy Extraordinary, who was proceeding on a mission to the King of Servia. After a delay of seven hours, Baron Aerenthal, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Ulegraphed orders for the release of M. Vukolitch, who was accorded a popular ovation en his arrival at Belgrade. ASIATIC RESERVES. Received October 22, 9.45 p.m. .CONSTANTINOPLE. October 22. Twenty thousand Asiatic reserves are expected to arrive shortly, and will be placed on the Bulgarian frontier for training. High officiate at Stair.l oul are confident of reaching an amicable arrangement with Bulgaria, but Austiia .refuses tj agree to the principle of the conference uniuss the Porte agrees r.ot to raisi the question of annexation cf Biwnia and Herzegovina. TERRITORIAL COMPENSATION. SERVIA'S DECISION. Receive.! 0: v ..o:)=r 22, 9.43 p.m.

LONDON, October 22

" The Timed' " Belgrade correspondent learns authoritatively that Serbia's decision to demand territorial compensation from Austria :s irrevocable.