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Show PflEMRIflG ALLflBOUHD The Pope Offers to Arbitrate if the . European Powers Should Fail. Turjis and Ronmelians HaTe a Slight : Inrush, and 30 Roiuneliaiis ; - Are: Done Up. ; :-; .p ;', ' ; Au Ex-United States Minister Tells a i trange Story of How the Japs I ; -Were BnUdozed by Euro- - " : " P?a2! Cowers. ; r ; ' 1 "'..' : " The Pope Offers to Arbitrate, -i . v London, Sept ember 27.The Pope has consented con-sented to act as mediator in the Roumelian. difficulty in the event that direct negotiations negotia-tions between the, Powers interested should prove fesultless.-.' . ;:.'- ; :- :' . : Strecker Pasha, German officer, has been appointed chief of : the sta.1 of the Turkish -arnrj-eorpB at Adrianopole, Said Pasha, the new Turkish Minister ' of Foreign' 'Affairs; who wasnntil recently Turkish ambassador to Germany, before leaving Berlin had an interview with Prince Bismarck and obtained from him an assurance of Germany's support in the settlement of the Bulgarian difficulty. -The Roumelian and Bulgarian parliaments have sent telegrams and addresses to the Czar of Russia, entreating him to protect the union.; Servians actively negotiating with Roumelia and Greeoe with a view to taking common aotion against the extension of Bulgarian dominion. 'King Milan, of Servia;'will go to Nissa immediately to assume , chief command of the army General Popovitch, the King's Chief of Staffr with 25,000 troops, is ready to cross the frontier. . , - . , : - . : .All the Powers have agreed that the Roumelian Rou-melian conference shall be held at Pera. ' ; London,. September 27. The Bulgarian government has purchased the Rustchuck and. Varna Railway for 7,780,000. Servia's circular to the Powers states that recent events in Bulgaria threaten Servian interests, inter-ests, and as a safeguard she asks the protection protec-tion of the Powers. - - At a meeting of the students in Belgrade to-day those present decided to VdliUNTEEB FOB SEEYICE IN THE ABMT. ' The first and seoond claases of reserves have been ordered to be formed into an army corps. Athens, Greece, September 27. A mob of Cretans and Macedonians, with .others, held a demonstration before the King's palace to-day. ' Constantinople, September 27. A Bulgarian Bul-garian revolutionary committee has been discovered at Adrianople; four arrests have been made. Major Trotter, military attache of the British Legation at Constantinople, and Mr. Fawcett,-English Consul-General, have returned re-turned from Roumelia. They narrate that on their arrival at Phillipopolis they were arrested. After having an interview with Prince Alexander they were blindfolded, escorted to the frontier, and left in an open field at nightfall in a carriage. They wandered wan-dered about for several hours, and finally reached the tent of a Pasha, who treated them well and forwarded them to Constantinople. Constan-tinople. " THE FIEST SKTHMISH. London, September 27. Advices from Bucharest report that fighting occurred on Friday near Adrianople, and that during the engagement thirty Roumelians were lolled and 300 wounded. The Russian commandant at the arsenal at Rustchuck recently permitted per-mitted a ship laden with arms and ammunition ammuni-tion to sail from that port, ostensibly to Antwerp, but really to Bourgas. A BULGABIAN BED CBOSS SOCIETY. Phtlippopolis, September 28. Prince Alexander Al-exander has ordered the civil and military authorities on the frontiers of Bulgaria and' Macedonia to maintain order in their respective res-pective districts. The populace on both sides of the Balkans are very enthusiastic over the union between Bulgaria and Roumelia, Rou-melia, and numbers of men have offered to enter the volunteer service in support of the union. The ladies are forming a Red Cross society, and making other preparations for the care of the sick and wounded soldiers in the event of hostilities being commenced. . |