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Show PROSPECTS FOB PEACE y . IN BALKAN REGIONS. LONDON, May 12. The Times' correspondent corre-spondent at Sofia says that he thinks that the proBpects for peace for the coming summer are more favorable now than at any time since January. "At a meeting between the Bulgarian premier and the Ottoman commissioner, commission-er, held n Monday," the correspondent continues, "the question of the Turkish note was settled amicably. This ends a dangerous situation. In six weeks' time the entire rural population of Bulgaria Bul-garia and Macedonia will be occupied with the harvest." : r The Porte has communicated to the representatives of the powers a denial of the excesses recently reported at Monastir. It denies the participation of Bashl Bazouks and Mussulmen in these disorders, and says there was no pillaging of houses belonging to the i Christians and no murdering of women. |