THE BALKAN REVOLT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2799, 18 August 1903, Page 2

THE BALKAN REVOLT.

PracticaHy the whole portion of Wei , tern Macedonia is in the hands of tb« insurgents, and the Turks are maetere of little more than the ground they stand on. The insurgents captured the Government food supplies in the KorieU district, and 300 repeating tifles and ammunition at Kruchoo. Ferid Pasha was severely wound ed by Albanian? on leaving Ipex with troops. The Macedonian losses at Sovovitch were 150 killed. Turkish advioes state that twenty six Moslem peasants were massacred near Perlepe. A sanguinary encounter has taken place been Mahommedao.Greek aad KuUowallftch bands.

The '• Times " Sofia correspondent etatoa that the Turks at Uskub have distributed 5000 rifles to the Mahommedan population, which threatens a Christian mas-acre Turkieh advicee etate that the inhabitants of the Turkish village of Kinali, near Mona' stir, have been massacred, with the exoep , tion of twenty. Extraordinary reports of the Salonika iuentreotion are spreading eastwards. "Wo" men are participating in the fighting. The Austrian Consul has been threatened. Englieh newspapers demand the publication of the British Consular reports. The murderer of ftl. Ros'.oveky, the Rue , fan Coosul at Monastir, who was shot by a Turkish gendarme during an altercation over an omission of a greeting, haa been •entenced to be hanged, with an accomplice who did not interfere to prevent the crimei Another gendarme waa sentenced to fifteen yeas' penal servitude.

Revolutionary bands dynamited a bridge on the Monastir railway line. Tho Greek Premier, in receiving the foreign Ambassadors, pointed oit the neces , sity of givlaa Turkey a free hanjd in dealing with the Balkan troubles, and requesting her to use the utmost severity! to restore order.

The Customs authorities'have confiscated a, quantity of ammunition m cases labelled. " Hardware and nails," and destined for Macedonia.

The Ambassadors at Constantinople hare demanded that the Porte shall take measures for tho protection of the Consuls and for* eign subjects at Monastir, owing to the population demanding arms, osteaeibly for self defence.

The Turks and Macedonians mutually accuse each other of massacre?. The in , stances include the Christians at Kitchero and the Moslems at Kruakevo, wt,ioh the troops afterwards reoccupied. Belgrade advices state that the Turks were guilty of horrible atrocities in the villages near Monastir. They destroyed fourteen villages in the Uskub and Viles districts.

Bulgaria will present to the Powers a memorial enumerating the misdeeds on Christian villaye's bordering on Bulgaria, and setting ous the hopelessness of expect , ing any good from Turkey's so called ref >rms.