Russia and Bulgaria.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 176, 16 July 1901, Page 4

Russia and Bulgaria.

'.'•,'' -"'■"'■.' .- ; Losd >n, July 11. . The . Russian : I.aperial Bank, or,; according t.o "Other accounts, the Russiai Government, advances Bulgaria e'gbfj million francs in order to enable her to avert insolvency, and influences F-ercU capitalists to k-nd eighty mi! ion franc-". It is expected "that Bulja'ia will in return lease 'fKnnlsia the seaports of Burgag and Ferdinand; | on b'icVmi'ng'Kiog,- will marry Princess IjXenra, of IviontenegKp. • , .[-Burgas stand 0 at the bead of the Gulf' of.JSnjvssj. which fibrins a wry safu tpail-stcadj and is connected by rail with the main line .from Phi'ippopolia to Constantinople. Varna i 3 a fortiti d tou;n. also on the Bl»ck Sea,- and rs t ef c-pitnl of t-ho province of Varna. It ia oV a bay opening towards the east, aod offard no shelter to ships against north and hoith-ea t winds. In 1304 it w a chosen by Franr/e and England as the" dejjot for the allied • armies fighting agaitist Russia at Sebastopo!. Ves ]g a-ichor in 5.5 fathoms, and" loid and d:p'c.iarge by means of lighters ] Austra i- serionsly disquieted at h f declining . influence' in the Balkan Peninsula. Vienna, July 11. The Neuo Freie. P.esse r rfays that Bulgaria has aold her independence.