The Momentous Question and the Turkish Crisis
The article surveys Europe’s anxious view of the crisis over Turkish reforms in the Ottoman Empire. It notes conferences in Constantinople, the Sultan’s potential constitutional move, and the Powers demand for provinces, reforms, and supervision. It discusses Russia and England positions and forecasts gradual Turkish concessions to avert war.
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Constantinople
Safvet Pasha
Satvet Pasha
Turkey
Coulson
Paris
The
Times
United Powers
Servia
Montenegro
Herzegovina
Bosnia
Bulgaria
Russia
England
Porte
Balkan
Baxter on Public Affairs and Eastern Question
Tur Right Hon. W. E. Baxter of Montrose Burghs recent Brechin speech covers domestic politics and the Continent’s conflicts. He analyzes education reform, liquor taxation and the Gothenburg plan, and argues for external influence to reform Ottoman Turkey while noting the Eastern Question is beginning to dissolve the empire.
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W. E. Baxter
Montrose Burghs
Brechin
America
England
Scotland
Baxter
Party of Freedom and Progress
United States
New York
London
Gothenburg
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Dundee
Gladstone
Turkey
Europe
Asia
Mene
Menge
Tekel
Midhat Pasha
Syria
Lebanon
Porte
Danube
Montrose
Ottoman Empire
Prim Biography under preparation in Madrid
A family sourced biography of Marshal Prim is being prepared in Madrid. Messrs. Smith and Elder plan a biography of the late Sir James Outram, with editor yet to be decided. Nineveh excavations stall as Rassam cannot secure a firman from the Turkish government. A child at a funeral asks about pallbearers, who explain they will bury others first.
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Marshal Prim
Madrid
Messrs
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