AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (Harvey Jones)
A(Ser) s A(Tri); A(Tri) s A(Ser); A(Vie) - Gal

ENGLAND (Lloyd Mitchell)
A(Den) - Lvn; A(Edi) - Nwy (FAILED); A(Yor) Stands; F(BAL) c A(Den) - Lvn; F(GoB) s A(Den) - Lvn; F(NTH) c A(Edi) - Nwy; F(NWG) s F(StP) nc - BAR; F(StP) nc - BAR

FRANCE (David Queenan)
A(Ber) - Mun; A(Mar) - Bur; A(Mun) - Boh; A(Sil) s A(Mun) - Boh; A(War) s ENGLISH A(Den) - Lvn; F(Hol) Stands; F(MAO) s F(WMS); F(WMS) s F(NAf) - Tun; F(NAf) - Tun; F(GoL) Stands

ITALY (Craig Shadbolt)
A(Ven) - Pie; F(Nap) s F(Tun) - TYS; F(Tun) - TYS; A(Tri)-s French A(Mun)-Boh (MISORDER); A(Tyr) Stands

RUSSIA (Tim Sweeney)
A(Lvn) - Mos; A(Rum) - Ukr; A(Smy) s F(Ank) - Con; F(Ank) - Con; F(BAR) - Nwy (FAILED, DISLODGED - DISBANDED NRP)

TURKEY (Geerten Eijkelenboom)
A(Bul) s A(Gre); A(Gre) s A(Bul); F(AEG) - ION

PRESS

Marquis of Salisbury's (British Foreign Secretary) private letter to Sir

Henry Layard (Ambassador to Constantinople), 9 May 1878. In the Layard

Papers, British Museum, Add. MS. 39137

'The great problem the Turk will have to solve, as soon as he has got ...

the Russian army off his soil is - how to keep his Asiatic Empire

together. Sooner or later the greater part of his European Empire *must*

go. Bosnia and Bulgaria are as good as gone. We may with great efforts

give him another lease of Thrace: and he may keep for a considerable time a

hold on Macedonia and Albania ... But he will not get soldiers from them:

for the Mussulman population will tend more and more to recede: and it is

from them alone that any effective army can be drawn[;] ... if the Turk is

to maintain himself at Constantinople it is mainly with Asiatic soldiers

that he will do it. With the Russians at Kars, the idea of coming change

will be rife over Asia Minor ... If he has his own strength alone to trust

to, no one will believe in the power of his resistance. He has been beaten

too often. The Arabs, and the Asiatics generally will look to the Russian

as the coming man. The Turks only chance is to obtain the alliance of a

great Power: and the only Power available is England.

Is it possible for England to give that alliance? I cannot speak yet with

confidence: but I think so'.

Mos-All: I have proposed the EGP for the 6-way draw, to Rome, Vienna and Constantinople I say that "united we stand...divided we fall". To London and Paris I say congratulations on a very strong alliance, but you have to appreciate that it is not in our interest to see an E/F draw or either of you getting a solo.