THE NOTE TO BULGARIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 884, 7 May 1903, Page 2

THE NOTE TO BULGARIA.

NARROW ESCAPE OF FOREIGN QUARTERS AT SALONICA. TURKS AND REVOLUTIONARIES by Telegraph— lThhb Association—Copyright Received 12.30 a.m., May 7. London, May 6.

Tho Times’ Sofia correspondent statos that Turkey, in a notu to Bulgaria, refers to the exportation of Bulgarian expiosivos and incursions in Macedonia. Bulgaria objected to the strong language ol tho note, which was not formally accepted, Tho protest necessitates an equally strong reply. A pourparlers is proceeding. - Tho Standard's Constantinople correspondent says that thcro is an impression that Russia is driving Turkey into an embroglio with Bulguriu. Other advices are that Great Britain, Franco and Italy notified the Porto that indemnities hud been claimed by subjects suffering by tho Salonica disturbance.

Charges of dyuumito wero laid botwoen tho bank and post-oflico at Salonica on Wednesday. Tho batteries wore in working order, but tho wires broke, otherwise tho foreign quarter would liuvo been exploded. It is reported at Buda-Pesth that four hundred carriages on tho IGuuseubergKronstad railway have been ordered to bo in readinoss for tho conveyance of troops. Two officers of tho general staff have ar. rived at Klausenberg. Olio proceeded to Pridoal, on the Roumanian frontier. A Turkish battalion at Akirida encountered a strong body of revolutionaries. A hundred soldiers wore killed Ton officors wore killed and six woundod. Seventy revolutionaries wore killed aud twenty-one wounded.