Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-02
RUSSIA AND TURKEY BELIEVED
TO HAVE COME TO AN UN-
DERsTANDING.
How D~rby's Resignation
is Regarded,
MORE ABOUT THE IGNATIEF mis-.
SION.
THE CORDIALITY OF RUSSIA AND
TURKEY.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, March SILL P. M. The
Gradd Duke Nicholas has had an interview of tw O
hours with the Sultan, on Saturday. NJ. Rago-
men was the only other person present.
The Russians are fortify ing their lines of Chat
ava, and erecting entertainments at all strategic
points.
Osman Fued and Raouf Pasha have gone to the
| Turk sh camp at Masaiki. Muktah Pasha 10 ap-
pointed chief oil the general staff, and Osmsu Pa
sha commandant.
| CoNsTANTINOPLE, April |. The Russian Ad-
mlrsl Pspcff has arrived.
| The Egyptian contingent from Varna Is en-
camped at uDkisr Skelessi, q village of Asia Mi
nor, on the Bosphorus, eighteen miles north east
Of Constantnople.
| 1t is believed in military circles that Russia and
| Turkey have arrived at an understa nding but no
visible indication of this. 1t is still hoped peace
will be maintained.
| LONDON, April /. The Times says the admi-
rally has made an urgent requisition on contrac-
tors who are manufacturing q large number Of
picks and shovels, at Wolverhampton, and de-
manded to know when they would be ready.
Recruiting officers arc experiencing an increase
of business, and the men coming are Of Q superior
class.
1t is expected that with the close of the tinan.
cial year March 81, beyond which f6, 000, 900
credit does not run an extensive dismissal of ex-
bat the war officer ordered extra men retained,
only suspending over time work. #Nf
The Times Rome correspondent telegraphs ~
follows:
Count Corti, foreign minister, has promised
the deputies to explain the governments eastern
policy, so far as they may feel inclined to explain.
lie will undoubtedly say that observant iuaction
and neutrality are inexorably Italys policy. She
may be alarmed at Russiss colossal growth ID the
east. but home complications and the necessity Of
keeping on good terms with Germany, induce
neutrality"
=, Data abu Oh .
| Derby's resignation of the foreign office was
complete surprise, and caused an immense senss-
ton in official circles. Derby, SAYS the despatch,
is reproached for having msled Russia and Eng
land by going as far as he did in direction which
he disapproved
The Times Vcnna special says that in couse-
quence Of Derby's resignation and the calling out
the reserves. Austria has ceased her efforts to ef-
feet compromise about the Congress, feeling
sure Prussia will not yield to Englands demand
now, when doing so would seem some like sub
hitting before q threat, but while it may not be
possible now, may become so later.
The impression is, that whatever may have orig
nally been the object Of Ignateff's mission, be
information, and returns to st. Petersburg to re-
port what he heard. Ne probably discovered
Austria was too anxious for European condemua-
ton of the treaty of the San Steauo to enter into
any bargain about it with Russia alone, which
would seem to have given it Austrian sanction.
Moreover, Ignatiefs later declarations indicate
that after he communicated the feeling here to
st. Petersburg, he received new instructions,
which forbade him to 10 far in the direction of
concession to Austria he at first expressed him
self inclined.
The Times Pera despatch dated the 29th says
although the Turkish policy may short time ago
have been philo English, just now it Is philo-Rus-
sian, and Osman and Raouf Pashas have become
more Russian tn an English. Turkish and Rus
san soldiers fraternize, the latter going about
Constantinope freely, without evokIng any ami
mostly such as usually exists between invader and
invaded.
If war comes, England must contemplate the
possibility of having to fight Turkey aud Russia.
The best she would get from Turkey is one sided
neutrality of little or no substantial use. -o1
ST. PETERSBURG, April l. The Agence Russo
says that the Russian Journals, notedly the New
Tunis, favor direct understanding with Eng
land.