THE BALKANS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2809, 2 October 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

After a requiem service at Sofia for the Macedonian dead, a proceeaion, numbering fifteen thousand, Blood eilent for a moment outeide the British Agent's residence, anil subsequently cent a deputation to M. Petroff, to a»k whether or not Bulgaria would hnlp Macedonia. M. Petroff replied that he, as Premier, would continue to act in Bulgaria's beet interests.

The •• Timee " aaye that at the instance of Izzst Pacha, who was largely responsible for the Armenian massacres, and who is now at Constantinople, the Sultan hao ordered that in future all Bulgarians cap* tured with or without arms must be shot.

The "Daily Mail's" Monastir correspondent aaye that Turkey displayed wonderful skill in suggesting western military aid. She has drawn an iron cordon of 300,000 troops rounf) Bulgaria ; 170,000 are mafaed in ihe Salonika district, 50,000 in Mouastir, 70,000 with 300 guns in Adrianople, and 10,000 In Koßflovo.

Documents purloined from the archives of Hilmi Pasha, Turkieh Commander in Chief, show that sixty three Christian villages were destroyed in the Monastir die trict and one hundred and fifty in four vilayet .