The Balkan Embroglio.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12343, 27 August 1903, Page 7

The Balkan Embroglio.

PKBN'CE FEiREptNANDS ATTITUDE

GROWING BESTLESSEO3SS IN SEtBVIA.

United Press Association.— By Ele*?-

trie Telegraph. — Copyright. Beceiived August IG, 0.30 .p.m. Sofia, August 26.

Six prominent Bulgarians have been sent to Btangary to deinan4 tliat \ Pi-ince Ferdinand shall make a declaration of his attitude tow ards; Macedonia, and unless he replies within ten days they are authorised to notify to him that he will be dethroned and his return prohibited. It i^ not expected that Prince Ferdinand will return.

Constantinople, August 26. Ibrahim Pasha supereedes Onier Pasha as Turkish Commander in the dissail'ectcd districts-, Otner being recalled.

There is growing restlessness and excitement at Belgrade and Soiia, owing to atrocities marking the suppression of the rising in the Jtfonastir district, where the T,iirks have the upper hand, 90 women and children in one building at Ktfuslhovo being cut to pieces and thrown into the street, while the heads of 15 merchants were carried on poles at JV&onastir. "While the tro.ops v.ere repelling an attack on Scherksikoj, between Adrianople and Constantinople, the Circassian inhabitants went and massacred the occupants of three Bulgarian villages in the vicinity.

TEE KUSSTAN FLEKT MO.VEJUE'NTS.

MOIIE TURKISH BATTALIONS

CALLED OUT.

Received August 27. 8.15 a.m. Conatantmoiile, August 26. The . liussian squadron rom,ai»« in the neighlio^irho ( r-id of Init^la. Insurgents foiight nnvl pursued 350 Bashiba«>iiks, who took ie£ugc in a tower at Ketvankoi. The tow or was dynamited aud all killed. Turkey has now called out 350 battalimns.