UNREST IN MACEDONIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2246, 18 July 1908, Page 3

UNREST IN MACEDONIA.

MUTINY AMONG THE SOLDIERS. YOUNG TURKEY PARTY REBELS United Press Association, Copyright (Received July 17, 9.7 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17. Extraordinary unrest is reported in Macedonia. Major Niarzi Boy and many other officers of the Tioung Turkey party quitted their posts at Eeona, executed the armed adherents of Okhrida and Fiorina, and demanded a national assembly. Several garrisons, owing ’to their non-discharge upon the expiry ,of their term of service, also mutinied. _ The battalion which recently assassinated several Sliemsi commanders refused to march against their Resna comrades after th e Shemsis’ death. The Albanians, many of whom also demand a constitution, are being expelled by the Turkish authorities from Liuma, Ferigovito, and Egristina districts. An Albanian shot and wounded General Sadik Pasha in the neck, and got on board the Messageries Maritimes steamer Sidod,. on a voyage to Salonica. When passing through the Dardanelles ho was arrested and handed over to the Turkish authorities.

A Turkish officer at Salonica was killed by a Turkish regiment chaplain. who was acting as a spy for the Yildiz Kiosk in connection with the Monastic troubles.;