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As yet, the action of the neighbouring Powers is obscure,

but according to the best accounts, their decision remains firm to allow Turkey to sudue the insurrection if she can, and if she cannot, to occupy the disturbed provinces with Austrian troops, and in either case to insist that Bosnia, the Herzegovina, and Montenegro shall be raised into a new Hospodarate. It is asserted that Austria has also demanded that repression shall not be accom- panied with cruelty, but of course Turkey will grant that at once, and ascribe any massacres that may occur to the irrepressi- ble fury of populations oppressed by the insurgents. There is no evidence that Austria is friendly to the insurgents, but much that she is becoming uneasy at the excitement caused by the rebellion among her own Slav population.

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