The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-27


The Mediterranean squadron Of the United
States has obtained therequisite permission to
pass through the Dardanelles from the Porte
and will Immediately proceed to the Bosphorus
Greece Is preparing, In case Of war, to incite
instruction in the Greek provinces OF Turkey
and in the Island Of Crete.
A dispatch from Japan announces the defeat
Of the insurgents, and their flight in the direc-
ton Of Hionga. The instruction is regarded
as nearly ended.
Reports of a Russian alliance with Persia are
renewed, and it is said the Shah has offered to
send 81, 900 men to reinforce the Russian army
on the Georgian frontier of Turkey.
The Servians are endeavoring to incite the
Greeks to war against Turkey. Very sensibly
the Greeks propose to maintain a strict neu-
trality.
harbor Of Constantinople, and the Russian
residents are leaving the city.
A dispatch from Odessa, the great Russian
grain mart, reports that an early bombardment
Of that town is expected
Lord Derby declared, in q speech in the
English House of Lords, a few days ago, that
Turkey "must not rely ON material support
rom England"
According to advices from the Russian from
tier, the Cars troops are moving very slowly
on account of bad roads and bad weather.
The Roumanian roads are in such hopeless
state that three weeks is named as the shortest
time in which they can be made fit for heavy
military transport. The conviction has gradu-
ally dawned that a far larger force is required
was at first prepared.
Roumania has entered into On alliance, offen-
sive and defensive, with Russia.
| At the city Of Kars, port on the southeast
ern shore of the Black sea, the Turks are re-
ported as having completely destroyed the Rus
sian vice consulate. From Kars may, there
fore, have come the first overt act of the
war.
France will send a fleet to the Levant to guard
the interests of French subjects.
The civil war in the United States of Colom-
bia is ended, the insurrectionary army having
surrendered to the Government forces.
Berlin dispatch says the Servian semi
official press are again exceedingly hostile.
Turkey demands Servia to participate in the
war.
The London Times Berlin correspondent
says "there can be no doubt that Austria re-
serves to itself absolute liberty of action " in
the pending struggle and denies the report
that there is an understanding between Russia
and Austria.
Spain has granted complete amnesty to all
officers and soldiers who participated in the
Carlst instruction, if they surrender in thirty
days.
The Emperor Of Russia, at review at
Kischeneff, made speech to the army, in which
he said "If you should encounter the enemy
show yourselves brave and uphold the ancient
glory of your regiments. 1 hope the young
men among you, who have not been under fire,
will not show themselves inferior to their
veteran comrades. / trust you may soon return
covered with glory"
The famine which, for some time past, has
been raging in India, has about reached its
worst point. 1t is thought that the distress
inflicted will be found to be not as severe as
anticipated in the earlier stages of its
progress.
Count Won Moltke, in a speech before the
German Parliament the other day, declared his
confident belief that the war now begun by
Russia will envelop the whole of Europe within
year that every nation will be compelled to
take up arms in defense of its interests if not
of its very existence, and that the necessity for
preparation is urgent.