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Show FOREIGN. THE IT All. Thf Turkish Position In Asia Uu.sia Kunuiuc the Blockade. Block-ade. London, 7. Tho following is the Turkish account of the- position of affairs in Asia Minor: On the morning of the 0:h of June Muhktar Pasha's headquarters, with nine battalions, was at Kcprekos. The Turkish right, cor.s:s'.;cg of twenty battalions, was at Dehujba. Tne Turkish lo it wine, sixteen battalions, bat-talions, was at Guniji, and tho bag-KE9 bag-KE9 about s:x hours' march from E.-zercum. The same account o ty assigns lour butteries of artillery to these I'crty.fivo battalions, which scTins incredible, t'n:i;gh it has been i repeatedly etated from various sourcss , that the Turks iu Asia Minur we:t almost destitute of artillery. This report plaevs the main body ol the, Russian right wing at OHi, with a-.i advance guard at Marimau. and the Kusfcin centre at Saghai.lt Dagh. The Russian left has suspended its forward movement. A Russian de--taciied column is approaching Van and ha3 reached the bridge of Bendi-msihon, Bendi-msihon, twenty miles from Van. A semi-official telegram from St. i Petersburg states that tho Russian ambassadors to Loudon, Berlin and j Vienna, on their return to their posts, will be able to give assurances that; Russia does not aim at a political transformation of the map of the east. Nothing is further removed (rom her intentions than to cause frettb European complications. Russia will oppose the entry of revolutionary insurrections into war, and also en- ueuvur, as in lua case oi oervia, 10 prevent the participation of a vial i and neighboring stales. In the Turkish chamber of deputies yesterday the fiuanco minister do mantled a credit of five million Turkish Turk-ish pounds. The minister of stale's negotiations fur a foreign loan had not had any result. The chamber appointed ap-pointed a committee to examine the minister's demand. It ia proposed to levy an internal loan. Tho Turkish ambassador at Paris tolographed to Constantinople and received the following fol-lowing from Safvet Pasha: It ia not true that the situation of our army is precarious, nor that Kara is invested, nor that Moussa Pasha's cavalry was destroyed. Nolo. Yet tho Turkish censor permitted per-mitted theso stories to be telegraphed to the London papers. A telegram from Pera says intelligence intelli-gence baa been received here from a special source that the Montenegrins hava been defeated in Duga pass with a heavy loss. Pleieti, 7. The czar and Prince Charles of Roumauia having had a , conference, tho czar will visit Princs Charlte at Bucharest on Saturday. Great preparations are being made for his reception. Odessa, 7. A correspondent writes that thero is no longer fear there o( the Turkish fleot. Confidence has been completely restored. Indeed the Russian government now refusoB to acknowledge the blockade and proposes to resumo running steamers between Odessa and Kherson and Odessa and Nicolsiefi. |