The morning news., 1891-12-19
FRANCE AND BULGARIA.
st. Petersburg Papers Hint OF Franco
Russian Interference.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1a-The NoUoe
Vrenlyd to-day prints aise Unofficial article
concerning the dispute between France aud
Bulgaria, growing out of the Chadouine
incident, The article approves the action
OF France in Withdrawing her representa-
uyes from Bulgaria, and declares that IL
France had yielded any in her de-
mands tnat the degree of expul-
sion against Chadouine should be resciaded
she would have established a dangerous
precedent, which, If established, England
would take advantage Of in Egypt.
france, the paper says, cannot rest con-
tented with the recall OF her representative
at Sofia. We presume that NJ. Cambon, the
French ambassador to Turkey, will not con-
ceal from the sultan the necessity for
further action on the part OF Franco
INTERFERENOE THREATENED.
The NoU0sti says that the Chadouine in
cident may render 1t incumbent on France
and Russia to intervene to prevent Bulga-
ria II ON being made the center of agitation
by the driebund and the base for Austria's
advance upon the Balkans. In addition
the NoUosti says that whatever the out
come of the present difficulty may be the
incident shows that Russia is right in re-
garding the Coburg regime In Bulgaria,
supported by the dreibund, as a permanent
uahseT 10 EUROPE.
DIPLOMATIC SCHEME.
Copyright, 1891, By the ". Y. Associated Press.)
LONDON, Dec. lS.--The rupture Of diplo-
matte relations between France and Bulga-
ria on the pretext Of the expulsion of a
French journalist NJ. Chadouine, now
proves to be the initial step OF a French
diplomatic scheme to ask tho sultan to use
his suzerain right TO interfere in Bulgaria
in Russ as interest. Advices were re-
ceived at the foreign office tonight
that NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador at
Constautinople has demanded and will OBJ
tain an informal conference on the subject
with the sultan tomorrow. This develop
ment is no surprise to Lord Salisbury and
his diplomatic allies in Vienna aud Berlin,
M. Cambon, in an interview with the for-
eign minister of the porto on Wednesday
last, was understood to intimate that as
France had never recognized Prince Ferdi-
nand the government OF France must loo
for redress to the suzerain before taking
directly active measures.
A SOURCE OF ANXIETY.
As M. Ribot must know, or expect TO
know, that the porte will decline TO inter-
fere in question concerning the internal
administration of Bulgaria. anxiety pivots
on what the French government will next
do. The Austrian government, probably
acting IN concert with Lord Salisbury and
Chancellor Won Caprivi, supports the Bull
garian bureau. Austria's agent at Sofia
has melted Premier StambuloR to address q
note TO the governments of Turkey,
Germany, Austria and England, vindi-
eating the expulsion of M. Chadouine. IL
Is now known all round that M. Ribot does
not care straw for the expulsion or the
expulsee. The st. Petersburg weekly
Vodomisti. after suggesting that 1t Is possi-
BILE that France failing to obtain satlsfac-
tion may blockade Bulgarian ports, says
that Russia would protest against the ap-
pearance Of French iron-clads before Bavaria
or Pourgas. II M. Ribots policy results
thus the peace of Europe is over.