TURKEY RED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3608, 22 August 1912, Page 5

TURKEY RED.

AIONTENEGR INS IN ARMS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT! (Received August 21, 9.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 21. The Army Corps are concentrated at Kuprili. Rebels arriving at Kuprili will be disarmed and returned to their homes. The army will attack them if they resist. Mussulmens at Kuprili broached the magazines and seized arms. They will repel the entry of the Albanians. There has been further fighting at Berana, where the entire Christian population revolted and joined the Montenegrins, who silenced the Turkish blockhouse. Four Turks were killed. Four blockhouses at Mukra are besieged. The Montenegrins captured 54 soldiers. The unsatisfactory frontier delimitation is a frequent cause of conflict. Four battalions from Ipck have been despatched. The Reservists Division at Mifcrovisa lias been mobilised. The Montenegrin Government declares that no Montenegrins participated in the Berana attack, which was carried out by Servian residents. The Porte has invited the Montenegrins to withdraw troops from Berana. The Powers have made similar representations. Cettinge reports that the nature of the Usltuh settlement is not revealed. It is believed that the Albanians, recognising the Government’s firmness, considered it prudent to accept.

ATTACHED TO MONTENEGRO. (Received August 21. 9-30 p.m.) BERLIN, August 21. 'Flic “Cologne Gazette” blames Montenegro for the friction with Turkey, and says that the latter will possibly declare war with Montenegro, as -> way out of the difficulty surrounding the internal situation. Tlie paper urges the Powers not to permi Montenegro to create trouble. TIME PROPITIOUS FOR WAR. (Received August 22. 12,3 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 21. The “Telegraph's” Belgrade correspondent reports that King Ferdinand attended the Bulgarian generals’ war conference, which agreed that the present was the most propitious time to declare war with Turkey.