THE DARDANELLES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2991, 15 September 1891, Page 2

THE DARDANELLES.

urwSTAX DKSKINS. (m i:i.i:<i mo TKi.m;i:Ai , n--coi , i kii;iu*.) Coxsr.wnxoru:. September 'J. Tin-; Porte denies having apologised to Russia in May ia.>! fur the stoppage of lillViiilll merchant Vessels passing tin; Dardanelles, and admits that in t] V: action (alien at. th::.•; time to prevent, vessels pa-sing, flic commandants of Hit' foils \\-'Ti,' mil to blame. September 12. Tliu Sultan has granted (Sir A. "U r . While an interview coticerniiig tin; firing on Bi'itish merchant vessels when passing the Dardaneflcs in July last, Vikxxa, Scpt-oinbcr 11. It is understood that in recent interviews between General Von Caprivi, the German Chancellor, and Count Kalnoky, the Austraiu Minister of Foreign AflUir.s, an agreement was arrived at that there was no present gruund fur diplomatic action with regard to allowing Russia the free passage ml' the Dardtnelles. It is rumoured that another of the (■real Powers has refused England's request to interfere. Ilussia, it. is said, will mobilise an army in April to test the efficiency of the new military system. Tin- Russian press is clamorous for aggression in the east. The Xowosti demands free pas.sstgv for all Russian warships, to enable the lilack Sea tleet to join the French fleet. St. PKT]:itsi;ri:<;. September l>. The Moscow Gu/.ettj declares that, the Great Powers are bound to respect the decision of tie:; Sultan with regard to the Dardanelles, as ho has a right to give passage through ilici straits to whomsoever he pleases. London, Wept ember 12, Mr Gladstone, in writing to a Servian statesman, objects to the supremacy of liulga.ria, or any othor Power, with respect to the Balkan Stab's. P-EHU.w September H>. A Hamburg paper, has created a sensation by publishing what it declares are L'ussian designs. It states that Russia prouoses tosuldently seize Constantinople and tbal'she has' sufficient transports to land thirty thousand troops on fh.> shores of theUosphorus in twenty-four houru