The news of the week from the Herzegovina is considered
most favourable to the Turks, but their friends are probably a little too sanguine. Three thousand Turkish soldiers appear to have entered the province, and relieved Trebinje, and some of the insurgent bands are flying to the mountains. The Turks, moreover, have driven immense numbers of women and children into Austrian territory, where the population is half- mad with sympathy, and have fired the woods bordering on Servia, either to deprive the Servians of their best means of communicating with Bosnia unobserved, or merely on their old policy of destroying everything they can. On the other hand, however, the Servians are clamouring for war ; they have obtained a War Ministry, and they are urging the Skuptachina to proclaim hostilities. They avow themselves "thirsty for war," and it seems improbable that they should be held in many days after they know the insurgents have been once more defeated. They must move, and if they move, the Powers must either occupy Servia—that is, do Turkey's work for her—or compel the Porte to erect the revolted districts into an independ- ent State. It was not till. Servia had been defeated that she obtained her autonomy, and Turkey WM far stronger then than now. A campaign against Servia would make her bankrupt in three months.
