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Show RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA HAVE THE BALKAN SITUATION WELL IN HAND Vienna, Oct. 3.' M.- Sawinski. Foreign For-eign Minister Lamsdroff's secretary, has issued a statement regarding the result of the conferences in Austria between Count Lamsdorff and Count Goluchowski, the Austrian-Hungarian foreign minister, from which it appears ap-pears that they reached a determination determina-tion that the powers shall continue the Balkan policy arranged last winter. The programme for reform in Macedonia Mace-donia then drawn up has, however, been essentially extended and elaborated. elabor-ated. -, . The secretary characterized th. statement that Russia had demanded the free passage of her ships through the Dardanelles as being quite incorrect, incor-rect, and added that the ministers' conference, included the whole area of European near east, with the excep- r tion of old Albania, and gave repeated evidence of entire accord In the views of Count Lamsdorff and Count Goluchowski, Golu-chowski, and that In consequence of the agreement the powers need not fear war between Turkey and Bulgaria, Bul-garia, nor any great difficulty in the execution of the reforms. The Neue Freie Presse's .correspondent .correspond-ent at Muersesteg, Styria, near which place the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph are hunting, telegraphs that the repatriation of the Macedonians who have fled to Bulgaria Was also discussed at the conferences between Counts Lamsdorff and GolUchowsky. and that all the signatories to the treaty of Berlin will be apprised of the' agreements reached by means of identical iden-tical notes, which will be published simultaneously. - |