The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-01-23 00:00:00

THE slou •:• GE 013 SERVER.

TRE EASTERN CRISIS,

REFUSAL OF GREECE AND SERVIA TO

• DISARM.
(Reuter's Telegrams.)
SOFIA, Jan. 16.
A decree of Prince Alexander is promulgated
to-day, providing that from Jan. 1 last the judicial
code in use in the Principality is also to be in force
in Eastern Roumelia. It is believed that the Bul-
garian Government, in its reply to the Collective Note
of the Powers, will express its readiness to disarm as
soon as the Servians do the same, or the Powers
guarantee the Principality against invasion.
PIIILIPPOPOLIS, Jan.l6.

This morning a Te Daum was sung at the cathedral
here to celebrate the liberation of the town by the
Russian army in 1878.
BELGRADE, Jan. 16.
M. Garashanine has rejected the proposal of the
Powers for disarmament, on the ground that no com-
mencement whatever having yet been made with the
peace negotiations, Sonia desires to be protected
against surprises. As another reason for refusing
to comply with the summons of the Powers, the
Servian Premier, referring to Article I of the
armistice protocol, which fixes a term within which
notice may be given to terminate the arrangement,
points out that the Collective Note of the -Powers
offers no guarantees for the simultaneous disarma-
ment of all the States concerned. The . persons
benefited by the recent amnesty of King Milan, on
their arrival in the fortress square to-day, were re-
ceived with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants. Out
of a total of 200 amnestied, there are 76 members of
the Radical Central Committee, which organised the
Zaitcbar revolt and the recent insurrection, in-
cluding District Governor Jefremovich, lif. Sarno-
prava Martinovich, [newspaper editor, and the priest
Angielkovich.
CATTARO Jan. 16.

In response to an invitation from the Sultan the
Prince of Montenegro, accompanied by M. Petrovitch,
President of the Council of State, left yesterday
on board a Turkish yacht for Scutari en route for
Constantinople.
BOLOGNA, Jan. 17.
The Prince of Montenegro arrived here this
morning.
ATHENS, Jan. 17.

The Greek 'Government declines to accede to the
request of the Great Powers to disarm. Other
classes of the Army and Navy Reserves will shortly
be called out.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 1. _ _ _

The Porte has just ordered 500 pieces of field
artillery from Messrs Krupp, and 14 cannon of 24
centimetres for batteries. The latter are intended
for the defence of Saionica. It is maintained in
Russian and Armenian circles, but denied by the
Porte, that M. de Nelidoff has recommended the
Ottoman Government to carry into effect article 61
of the Berlin Treaty relating to reforms in Armenia.
Sir William White having brought to the notice of
Lord Salisbury reports circulating here that England
had not urged the Greek Government so energeticall:,
as the other Powers to disarm, his lordship has tele-
graphed to Sir William that Sir Horace Rumbolii,
the British Minister at Athens, after delivering the
Collective Note, strongly urged in the name of Eng-
land that Greece should disarm.

JAN. 17.

Subhi Pasha, Minister of Evkafs, died here to-day.
Three transports of Turkish troops have left Beyrouth
for Salonica.

CONSTANTINOPLE, lan. 18.
The Porte having requested to be informed of
Prince Alexander's views concerning the choice of
Bucharest, insisted upon by Servia as the city in
which the peace negotiations should be conducted,
the Prince telegraphed, in reply, declaring that Servia
had no right to fix upon any city, and that if the
Servian Government insisted on Bucharest he would
on his side insist on the negotiations being conducted
at Sofia.

Sorra, Jan. 19.
Acceding to the proposal of the German Govern-
ment, which is supported by the other Powers, the
Bulgarian Government has accepted Bucharest as the
place of meeting of the delegates charged io conduct
the peace negotiations.
ATHENS, Jan. 19.
_ _ _

The reply of the Greek Government, refusing to
comply with the demand of the Powers for disarma-
ment, was communicated to the European repre-
sentatives yesterday evening.