Show THE EASTERN WAR En glands active preparations for the coming coining struggle tho the ou on the Elli eastern tern complications russia preparing for a sible war with england the servian troop 3 capture pirot with war munitions war notes la 10 doc do 25 the times lou LCD iloa don says vast supplies of canned food are being shipped to 0 o malts malta it is ia said on excellent authority nut hority that indian troops tiro are being prepared to move nt at call that egypt either cither by force boroo or purchase will till lo be taken totoa a sion of to 11 a contingency liable and nl ai most sure to occur it is urged that the present sont is tho the most moat favorable time for war owing to tho the vast number ol of men u 6 M P 1 0 y ad who would enlist to NEW W YORK deo dec 20 29 the I 1 iier j st iliad london dispatch dip lob fay ia aalf lish military mil ilary circles war is ij considered almost inevitable aro completed tod sod regiments allotted for or an army of men sod slope ai already taken toward the formation of the iho nucleus for a reserve army profound prevails pro vails here and there here la is great depression in ia trade and licence fiD noo deo dec 23 29 tho the Ser servilian troops captured with wilh a andily q ot of iz paoa os and ammunition no details received st doc deo 29 20 boo been received an the success ol of troops in they hail had fortified and asks tw two 0 throng the in were fleeing in terror ioto into bastan bin territory lodo LOS DOS 4 deo dec 29 tho times loading leading article abys the ibe announce meat that the potao bag baa invited her atys government to lo approach tho czir with wilh a view 0 bridgina ioa about negotiations for peace will hill to clear some fear er which had bad born been exciting the countr and andio to bold out the lopo that tho the dreadful war may mar be brought to a close more quickly than by tho the shock allock of battle batlle I 1 ahe he baltan has taken tho the only ocly coot ceotto a with the calm review of what bat war nar hai bag already dooe done and what it must ilo do if it shoals last much looger longer A circular to the powers showed that the ibe peace party parly at the porte bud bad for a time lime got the upper had bid it proposed terms which would no doubt have bavo been even before war bod and which would woold oot not be bear or alter the ibe terrible battles 0 of the lie latt iset six fix months but the ibo porto did di 1 oot dot wood the cirou circular lir to be ba taken atit at ita word sword now that all tle powers hive have bat firmly declined deo lined to approach wilh sible conditions condit ione lie bo sultan has bas nicoly y asked ibis hie to no its ita good offices to it banog about for pence it is important that bat the ibo ROT gov crofoot should condrat negotiations io in a spirit absolutely free from parti zane zina hip bip we arbnot are not parties to io the proe seit contest As ai mediators our oar essential doty Is 13 to convey the tha mea sago from aiom coo power with which we no have bare DO quarrel i narrel to uri another olber power with which we vo have no quarrel wo we have bavo great interests ialo resle at alakel political roli as well veil ss as commercial slid they wll aril bo be urged at the proper moment moin col but bat metta mean whilo while it 1 19 our duty to tot not as friendly intermediary and no as rulers of the empire to uko take side with one OBO of the two powers which we wa must mast bring in ia cont sot would simply be to make our oar mission and nd destroy the prospect of pence peace oar government will hove to secor eo orlin tain whether russia is ia willing to open ne goLiat lons and what aro are her bor condi or peace it will then cavoto havo to offer turkey stich bach advice is an may seem proper and present hot her on kneffler effler it may have to reason in an esal lest spirit with both belligerents in ia order to secure a common ground it may lo be obliged to urge thu porto pone oo on the one coo bond band to bo be wise io in time sod and russia oo on the other hold hand not to demand such terms as would wool d good goad the to desperate aponto dc courses coures sod od thus multiply the perils po T lie of europe coropo ahila tho the mediator way may seem to not dot ON aa an now ut aoe power had DOW of another arguments most dinst be diot dictated aed partly by the spirit ol of no doubt the abe government would hive to consider the interests of Eo glaud but tho the presen lotion ot of them would come iu in good time sod and there is ii not dot the slightest rosson reason to fear oar they will be neglected the daily news says eya tho the ottoman government declares its ita desire denro that negotiations negotiation for peace my may bo be brought about on the present basis ot at facts caola and it ai its must be accepted to a sincere tio cero tho the public will mil cieli it in ha cow it bo be to point out that even upon the ibe RID most t limited in of the ibe office it house ahna aa edmed the be rovert ineat has hag assumed a of great delicacy the present war primarily concerns rosia busia aia and turkey but the liebera question is ie ono which whish must bo be con COD idd by europe by its ill present action our govern m ont has bai taken it elf thu character chanc ter of r for one belli belligerent whilo while acting also aleo for europe but bat it lao to harmo harmonize Dize this dow 1 0 baracker bar acter with the dec lorati ono which it hike big repeatedly made arld with its ita whole of conduct of which ibo be less lenat that oin can to be taid sold w is that it las bai now cow pre prepared pared the world for or the put part it bee baa undertaken to play on a ilor ministers ci very much depends whether the yaetoro question shell bo be now settled fettled at t least leant lot for moy many year acm to la or this war hll bo be followed by a mure mere truce tho the prelude to wr war is even greater sod cd more than that of which we vo are ro now a spectator we are ra bound boand to hope hopa they will prove equal tj ta their i ila dee dec is impossible to a door full information roi rei gard abc be cand i lion ol 01 a ibo ruess a and ad Roama niom soldiers Boldi cra and the turkish prisoners who were oo on their way to daring the storm but bat iran rom a details to ithac it let evident thora hoa has leod been suffering londot LONDON dec 9 no is given itan to rumors rumor ot at early peace on toy any terms abort ol of the bu extinct extinction iou 4 ol 01 1 I the ibe Ottom lit power a acino aiDi inn adur iu feuds to gala this point it at the rik of war r with herself that is iii the ot at tho the cm oil call for another quarter of a million of men if derby in ill his attempts attempt fit t mediation is 13 able to hoffr bach terms beime russia ilutsik losy possibly yield its ii 6 directly with wilh or to negotiate te gono not at t 11 but bat tho the organizing by tho the czir ot of tin ao amy army ol of the ilo billio indi esteg bis big to bo be ready to the coast is io the event of cl wr war ioria with 1 there will beno bo DO now ilow prolongation of the lal but a cam campaign one until turkey it ine to |