Five thousand Austrian troops entered the district of Novi Bazaron
Monday, as previously arranged, and after feeling their way in very cautious marches, arrived on Thursday at. Plevje. They met with no resistance, the Turks falling back ; but an Albanian insurrection is expected, and a strong division held in reserve to meet it. A telegram was published in London on Wednesday implying that the Sultan had ceded Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Novi-Bazar in sovereignty to the Emperor of Austria, receiving in return a guarantee of all his European possessions. That cannot be true. Such a guarantee,. besides irritating all Russians, would make every South Slav,— that:is, two-thirds of his own Trans-Leithan people,—the deadly enemy of the House of Hapsburg, without conciliating the Germans, and would throw the Emperor back once more upon the support of the Magyar caste alone. He is not likely to run such a risk for the sake of provinces already in his hands, or out of friendship for a Government which he can defend, if he- pleases, without guarantees. The Hapsburgs will fight for themselies, and not for the Turks.
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