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Show THE LA&iE&H WAft. liie eastern European war complications com-plications continue. Trie prf-si cor pendents at;rec that the czar's Mtfrr to the Emperor Francis Joseph contained thene points. Its purp(Mc waa to induco Austria to take action with Russia by the latter irninwliatply occupying Bulgaria, Atntria to oc cupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the Hosphorus wii to bo watched by the navic of both power. Her via, it waa proposed, should retain hr present independence. This cours'-, Huaaia thinks, will cause the reformH s'ne desires U be grantf-d and stop bloodshed. A c,nference of thu European Eu-ropean pownn is now to Ik; hold in Borne neutral city, to bo compwd ol the niiijisters of foreign aff.irs. C junt Arulraiy has not rcplir-d to the cztr'a noU;, but it Is thoug'tjt ho will ojipwo the BujiKHiiofi tit it r rued occj pitlon of the provinces, ami will rrur tue quoalion to tho powers.' At tho Jan accounts tho ports ws d' libarat-ina; libarat-ina; on its answers to the p'-aco pro-pTH.ala, pro-pTH.ala, and it win thought llioy w,uld be accptfd, if rfrvia on Id h0 rnvJt) u, comply. 'J'ho uiliniatum o( it imh w the irnlnpc Tidf tiro of th provincM f)f t)ll, r,)rh,( pxci.lltUlK fiiarif:mllyUll oi thorn to 1-e org tni.-d undur christian Kovnrt.mrK Kiw sian aoldiem aro tAly urrivillf; ftt JJolKrarlo, and lluro . n port ih .t ft Jaryc party r.i thn fluw11M army Inn been rrden d m he n udy march. Russia's action is generally regai-ded as unfavorable to pacific declarations. Tho fighting; which recommenced on Thursday last is reported as unfavorable un-favorable to the Servians, who were the attacking party, and Inat considerably. It was continued on Friday and Saturday. On the last named day the Turks were the attacking party and "tho Servians claim to have repulsed them. As regards re-gards numbers enyagtd and lossop, Thursday's battle was the greatest of the war. An attempt by the Servians at a double flanking movement by t-isteen bataliiona completely failed, ,;vnd the attacking party wero driven hack at all points with great loss, and three subsequent attacks were repulsed. Among the lost were sev -rut Russian officers, who had to drive the Servian soldiers to the altack at the sword's point. The Servians may be gre;it statesmen, buMhc-y appear to be unable to compete in fighting ivith the Turks, or else they' are loo lew in numbers to cope with them. While tho military situaliuu is bad for tne Servians, the political status is still worse, as the chancea for a sat s-factory s-factory peace basis apptar to be vanishing van-ishing daily, as Russia seems now to he the principal antagonist of Turkey. Nothing short of the virtual iode pendeuce of the christian provinces of Turkey wiil satisfy Russia, and Turkey will not grant this, as it practically prac-tically drives her out of Enropc. |