THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 993, 12 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

MORE HORRIBLE TALES OF MASSACRE. OMINOUS SMOKE-WREATHS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Constantinople, Sept. 10. The Sultan lias issued an irado ordering tho reconstruction of fortifications in tho Bosphorus at Adrianople, Oitlaya, aud Erezeroum. Sixty peasants in tbe hills near Neveska, surrendered under a proclamation of pardon, were massacred and their bodies thrown into a ravine. Columns of smoke have been seen in the neighborhood of Neveska, which is the centre of the drift being executed by tho Turks from five points. Details of the destruction of a village in Armersi Debra district, show that tho insurgents having withdrawn, tho Turks found only Grocks and Wallachs. Men, women, and children were massacrod, houses looted and burnt, and a fow survivors horribly hucked about. Vienna, Sept. 10. The Neues Wionor Tagoblatt states that the Bulgarian Government’s order for fifteen million cartridges was transferred to a Hungarian firm, which borrowed them from tho Hungarian Government for immediate delivery after the Austrian Government had doclincd thorn. STATE OF TERROR IN MONASTIR By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.27 p.m., Sept. 11. Constantinople, Sopt. 11. Sofia telegrams announce that insurgents annihilated two battalions of Albanian troops in Perirne mountains. Shops have been closed, and the streets deserted in Monastir, Christians fearing another massacre. Even consuls are afraid to go abroad. Several large Bulgarian bands, evading the Bulgarian and Turkish frontier guards, havo entered Macedonia.