Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-08
Porte should not resist British feet passing
through the Bosphorus. The Turks are TO
re-occupy Buyukdere.

Porte should not resist a British feet passing
through the Bosphorus. The Turks are TO
re-occupy Buyukdere.
RUSSIA WILL If ENGLAND WILL.
LONDON, April ga Constantinople
special says report comes from good
source that the Khedive has announced that
he will declare his independence should Tur-
key form any alliance against England.
It is stated Russia has officially offered to
quit the neighborhood of Constantinople if
the British feet withdraws.
Italy is endeavoring to induce the Porte to
suspend hostllities in Thessaly, alleging
fears of grave complications. Greece is
similarly endeavoring to influence the in
surgents
MORE HOPEFUL.
LONDON, April ga correspondent at St.
Petersburg telegraphing Sunday, says to-day
the hopeful rumors which without apparent
cause, were current on Saturday, have taken
more definite form. It is said an impor-
tant letter has been received from Berlin,
suggesting that concessions should be made
to avoid European war. Whether this is
true or not, it is pretty certain
that Germany is abandoning her purely pas
sive attitude. Russia has not requested
Germany's good offices, but there is reason to
believe she will gladly accept them. Hopes
for the congress are reviving, and General
Ignatief has even postponed his departure
for Constantinope, SO as to able TO accom-
pany Prince Gortschakoff to Berlin as the
second plenipotentiary, if the congress
meets.
| It is emphatically declared here that
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have misunderstood Prince Gortschakof, as
the latter never refused to admit discussion
of the Bessarabian question. The Russian
question involves European interests al
though it has not expressly admitted it.
! A correspondent at Bucharest telegraphi
and southwestern Russia, are taking W
strategic positions, of which Pietsti, il
Roumania, commanding the southern de
bouchment of the Carpathian passes, is tn
most salient. Contracts have been made TO
the delivery of supplies at these centres
The forces sent to these points, as yet, ap
pear simply advance guards to prepare 70
the reception of larger forces, should th
progress of events require their presence.
A dispatch from Belgrade says Austria ha
prohibited all Servian imports because of tn
rinderpest and spotted typhus.
1t is rumored at Athens that England vii
occupy the island of Crete.
A special from San Stefano reports til
first Russian cavalry division and a divisio
of Cossacks of the Don, have begun thei
| homeward march by way of Ibrail. Thre
regiments Of Cossacks, two batteries and th
eleventh corps, under Gen. Schokofey, ha
gone by the way of Rustchut.
correspondent at Pera understands thu
8 Austria has assured the Porte that she wi
| oppose any effort to enforce the San Stefan
treaty. The Russians are desperately ur|
inf the Sultan to surrender his iron-clat
and positions on the Bosphorus.
A Vienna correspondent says besides Il
t verbal remarks made to Gen. Ignatieff,
A more extensive statement in writing
q Austria's views was delivered to Prin
) Gortschakof by Austria two days after &c
:, 1gnatieff's arrival at St. Petersburg.
It is announced from Constantinople til
: the current of feeling in the Turkish cover
It ment is now running wholly against Russ