The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897. VariousЧитать онлайн книгу.
frontier, to make sure that the Bulgarians behaved.
This was exactly what Austria and Russia desired. With her troops scattered, and uneasy nations on her borders, Turkey is much less dangerous.
The Bulgarian matter had hardly been settled when Austria discovered a new means of checking Turkey.
The Turkish officials in Asia Minor ill-treated an Austrian subject. He was the agent of the Austrian Lloyd's Steamship Company at Mersina, and had been summarily expelled from the city by order of the officials.
The Austrian consul at once interfered, and was grossly insulted by the Mutessarif, who is a sort of mayor, and also by the Vali, or governor, of Adana, in which province Mersina is situated. Adana is one of the Turkish provinces on the Mediterranean Sea, and Mersina is one of its chief seaport towns.
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