THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 983, 1 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

TURKS SLAUGHTER TWO HUNDRED BULGARIANS.

PEOPLE BEING INFLAMED BY TURKS’ EXCESSES.

By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopy right* CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 30.

The Turks recaptured Neveska, killing two hundred Bulgarians. An unsuccessful attempt was made to dynamite the Orient express. Tlie engine was derailed, but no ■other damage was done. The newspapers demand stricter measures towards the insurgents and their Bulgarian inciters. The Turkish population of Adrian, ople are fleeing towards Constantinople. The troops sent to suppress the rising in lvirkkilise district have been completely defeated. SOFIA, August 30.

Bulgaria has mobilised reserve battalions of two frontier regiments to prevent the passage of large ■hands of revolutionaries into Macedonia. VIENNA, Aug. 30. An opinion is expressed here that the train outrage was the .work of anarchists. LONDON, August 30. Times messages declare that Bulgaria is sincerely intent upon the preservation of peace as long as possible, but. the Turks’ excesses are inflaming the population of Sofia and other centres, and the augmentation of Turkish troops near the frontier does not tend to ailay the; excitement.

EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS BY TURKEY. FERDINAND RETURNING TO , SOFIA. TURKS AND ALBANIANS DEMOLISH A MONASTERY. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31. Turkey lias ordered a quarter of a million kilos of smokeless powder from Germany, stipulating immediate delivery. The Turkish Government has commissioned and drafted into the army corps one hundred medical and veterinary students, as cadets, without examination. SOFIA, Aug. 31. Ferdinand lias started from Viejnna on his return to Sofia. Bulgarian troops on the frontier, in response to Austria’s’ emphatic appeal to Ferdinand, have been ordered to co-operate with the Turks in preventing tlie passage of revolutionary hands across the Bulgarian ■border. The population is murmuring at these measures. They resent severe measures, denouncing them as unfair and unpat riotic. Despite the stricter watch, hands continue to cross the frontier. A Bulgarian official declares that hinds have no difficulty in evading the Turks. Reports from Belgrade state that Turks and Albanians attacked and demolished a monastery;, at Saint Proctor, in, Servia. .

EUROPEANS FEAR MASSACRE. 1 INSURGENTS FREELY USING DYNAMITE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 12.14 a.m., Sept. 1. Constantinople, Aug. 31. A feeling of terror prevails amongst Europeans at Salonika. They fear that tho first local Bulgarian outrage will be the signal for a massacre. The Powers decline to send warships, lest such action is interpreted as an encouragement to the insurgents. < Insurgents dynamited the lighthouso at Vasileko, and occupied all points along tho coast in the vicinity. Thoy dynamited the barracks at Chioktepe, near Malkotirnova, and also the barracks at Domotika, near Adrianople, killing tha garrisons of both.

MASS MEETING AT BELGRADE. ADOPTION OF FIERY RESO LUTrONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 12.14 a.m., Sept. 1. Belgrade, Aug. 31. A mass meeting here adopted a resolution appealing to Servians not to depend on European powers for intervention, and declaring that Servia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro ought to occupy and re-build the Turkish Empire. It was also roaolved to urge Government to intervene on behalf of the Macedonians.

FANATICS URGING A “ HOLY WAR ” AGAINST CHRISTIANS. A THOUSAND MACEDONIANS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12.14 a.m., Sept. 1. Athens, Aug. 31. Five Bulgarians have been arrested here. They wore endeavoring to send two kegs of dynamite to Dedeogach. t Belgrade, Aug. 31. Two divisions of the Servian Army have boon mobilised, and are proceeding to tho frontier to prevent Albanian invasion.

Constantinople, Aug. 31. Insurgents destroyed tho Ekshisku railway station with dynamite. Fanatics at Tetovo and Kossova urge the Moslems to prepare for a holy war agaiDst Christians. Fresh insurgent risings have occurred in the Salonika and Monastir districts. Advices from Salonika state that Servat Pasha, with six battalions, stormed a position held by three thousand Macedonians, at Smilovo. A thousand of the latter were killed. Tho remainder fled before artillery fire.

MACEDONIANS KILL ISO SOLDIERS FAMINE THREATENING.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12,30 a.m., Sept. 1. Constantinople, Aug. 31. Four hundred Macedonians surprised the village of Setina, killing 180 soldiers. Famine is threatened over an extensive area of disturbed territory. Many Greeks, in despair, are joining the insurgents. Mobilisation is proceeding actively in Epirus and Lower Albania. INSURGENTS SEIZE RAILWAY STATION. THE SULTAN’S CONTROL. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 1 a.m., Sept. 1. Constantinople, Aug 31. One hundred and eighty insurgents have seized one of the stations on the Uskub railway. London, Aug. 31. The Standard’s Constantinople correspondent states that there is some reason to believe that a compromise is taking shape, whereoy the nominal suzerainty of the Sultan over the almost autonomous Christian Province will be secured. *