REPORTED RECAPTURE OF ARDAHAN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 774, 2 June 1877, Page V

REPORTED RECAPTURE OF ARDAHAN.

RESIGNATION . OF THE GREEK MINISTRY. DEPARTURE OF RUSSIAN AMBASSADORS FROM BERLIN, VIENNA AND LONDON. A GERMAN SQUADRON GONE , TO THE LEVANT. [Press Agency.] London, May 28 ■ It is reported that Ardabin has been re-captured by the Turks. The Danube is at present overflowed.

The Greek Ministry haa-rQjsi>ued. London, M.iy 30, „ The fact of Priuca Gortsohakoft accompanying the Czar" to Ptoyisti, has given rise to many rumours, llio senn-offlciul organ' of Berlin lays great sn-esa ou the necessity of neutrality on the part of Germany, arid ou the efforts of :% Germany to aeour^the i>eaco of Europe.. The "Le Nord " is auxioiw to assure- England that Russia will neither assail no? interfere with British interests. " The recapturo of Ardahan is nob coufirmed. A continued oannouade ia going on at Widdiu aud Kalafat. Tho Russiun troops have evacuated Trans, a ' Caucasian proyiiice of Abasia. : The Province \of Abasia ia a strip of country stretching along tlie eastern shore of the. Black Sea, and including various ports coinruanded by the Turkish fleet. Tho withdrawal of Russian troops ' •is m consequence, probably, of the revolt of tho Circassian mountaineers. ■ The bombardment afc the Kalafafc aud Widdin fords, opposite sides of the. Danube, near tke Servian frontier, is kept up' by tho Turkish and Itoum inian batteries. The Epsom Derby was won by Lord Ealiriouth'a Silvrio; Glenarth second. ■ :.■' ' Singapore, ' Thursday, .1.33. The Russian Ambassadors afc Berlin, Vienna, and London, have left these Courts, aud goue to St. Petersburg. A German squadron ha 3 goiiß.to the Levant.