THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 984, 2 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

REVOLUTIONISTS MAKE LEVY, AND THEN FLEE. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31. The revolutionists, after capturing Neveska, seized arms and ammuni

t.i.r-n. and levied one thousand pounds contribution from the inhabitants.

They then withdrew to the rnounttins. Troops arriving, fired thirty .shells, and receiving no response, then entered the town. Austria is demauding satisfaction in.- a party of Albanians firing a fufillade against the Consulate at Uskub. The Porte, explains that recruits fired volleys in the air, none of the shots striking the building. INSURGENTS] FORCES. FIFTEEN THOUSAND UNDER ARMS.

SULTAN FAVORS WAR

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Received 11.17 p.m., Sept. 1. Constantinople. Sept. 1.

The insurgents claim that 2000 insurgents left Bulgaria during the past ten days, and that there are 12,000 to 15,000 under arms in Macedonia and Adriauople. He'nni Pasha sent five Christians and five Turks to offer the insurgents an amnesty provided arms wore surrendered, •and tho insurrection ended before the festival of the Sultan Coronation.

The Servian Boards, under Dragomir Brotovitioh, formerly director of the schools at Salonika, are now orossing the frontier.

Two hundred well armed volunteers and forty officers have left Belgrade for Macedonia.

Ferdinand is aboard the gunboat Madejda which left Kusteriji for Bulgar. The insurgents received advices from Constantinople to tho effect that the Sultan, owing to Germany's influence, has changed his atitude, and now favors war.