THE BALKAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3057, 30 November 1908, Page 5

THE BALKAN CRISIS.

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THE SEIZED RAILWAY. WHAT BULGARIA IS PREPARED TO PAY. SOFIA, November 27. Bulgaria is willing to pay £4,440,000 for the Oriental Railway seized by it, and for the captialisation of the Roumelian tribul. MONTENEGRO PREPARING. Received November 28, 8 p.m.' LONDON, November 28. Montenegro has mounted a series c.f heavy batteries on Mt. Leochet, dominating Cattaru. Cattaro is a strongly fortified' Austrian port in Dalmatia, and lies at the head of the Gulf of Cattaro, 40 miles suuth-eat of Rangusa, under the steep Montenegrin hills. It has a cathedral, a naval school and a population of about 6,000. At one timf the capital of a small republic, the town in 1842 joined the Republic of Venice, and was handed over to Austria in 1420. The Gulf of Cattaro, an inJet of the Adriatic, 19 miles long, consists of three basins or lakes, connected by straits half-a-mile broad. THE TURKISH BOYCOTT. THE COST TO AUSTRIAHUNGARY. Received November 28, 8 p.m. LONDON, November 28. The Turkish boycott has cost Aus-tria-Hungary two million sterling'in sugar and clothing alone. GERMANY AND HER EFFORTS. TURKEY'S ■ OBSTINACY ATTRIBUTED TO BRITISH ENCOURAGEMENT. FRANCE WILL NOT INTERVENE. Received November 29, 4.45 p.m. LONDON, November 28. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that Germany is confining her efforts to supporting Austria in obtaining a cessation of the boycott and urging that the conference is useless. VIENNA, November 28. The Austria Press attribute Turkey's obstinacy to British encouragement. Austria has urged France to exert her friendly offices at Stamboul to terminate the boycott. M. Pichon has replied that France must abstain from intervention. WHY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA WERE ANNEXED. Received November 29, 4.18 p.m. PARIS, Nvember 29. Herr Wakerle, interviewed by the newspaper "Le Matin," said that Austria had been compelled to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, because if jServia acquired the provirces she would create a great and dangerous state around Austria. This is interpreted to mean that Austria's designs upon Macedonia would be thereby blocked.