BALKAN REBELLION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 253, 18 July 1908, Page 5

BALKAN REBELLION.

9 —: MACEDONIAN MUTINIES. DEMAND FDR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. ASSASSINATIONS. EXPULSION OF ALBANIANS. BY TELEOEAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (ltec. July 17, 9.7 p.m.) Constantinople, July 17. There is extraordinary unrest in Macelonia. Major Marzi Bey and many other >iiicers of the Young Turkey party quitted ,heir posts at Rezma, recruited armed adlorcnts at Okhrida and Fiorina, and demanded the establishment of a national tssembly. Several garrisons, owing to their non-dis-:harge upon the expiry of their period of :ervice, mutinied. The battalion which re:ently assassinated General Shemsi (their lommander) refused to march against their lozma Comrades after Shcmsi's death. Albanians, many of whom also demand a lonstitution, aro being expelled by the Turksh authorities from the Liuma, Ferigovito, in'd Bgristina districts. An Albanian shot and wounded General 3adik Pacha in the neck on board the Meslageries steadier Sidon, oil a voyage to Salonika, when passing the Dardanelles. He yas arrested and was handed over to 'the Curkish authorities. ALLEGED SPY KILLED. Constantinople, July 17. A Turkish officer at' Salonika killed a Turksh regimental chaplain who was acting as a spy for Yildiz Kiosk (tho permanent resilence'of the Sultans of Turkey), in connection with the troubles in tho Monastir vilayet of Macedonia. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. SULTAN WOULD LIKE ,TO JOIN. BRITISH REFORMS MAY WRECK HIS EMPIRE. (Rec. July 17, 9-7 p.m.) St. Petersburg, July 17. According to tho newspaper "Noyoc Vremya," tho Sultan, fearing that Britain'! aim is the destruction of the Ottoman.Empiro, is negotiating through the Prussiai Gcperal Goltz for' tho entry of Turkey intt the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, anc Italy). 1 . The success which Sir Edward Grey's pro posal for a mobile column to suppress the bandi is now mooting with ainoiifr tho Powers wouh no doubt drive Turkey still further toward' Gormany. As to the ways of the Turkisl troops in Macedonia, tho Sofia correspondent o "The Times" wrote under date April la:_ lju beliavious of the Turkish troops towards- thi population shows little sign of improvement although outrages on an extensive scale an less frequent than formerly. The troops, fo whose maintenance tho Macedonian treasury is depleted and the civil administration-starved are largely occupied, not in tlia arduous pur suit of the insurgent bands, but in tholes irksome duty of searching- the villages fo arms and exacting ransom trom tho peasants who havo already beon taxed to the ut.termos farthing for the-support of theso inefficient pro tectors,' and ha'vo furthermore paid toll to tin various bands in their neighbourhood. A sene of perquisitions have been carried out duri.ni tho last few weeks in. the l-rnza of Cnstoru and the nabio of Prespa with tho usual, aceom naniment of beating, maltreatment, and even in somo instances, torture; the cirournstniic that 000 of the pensnnt"! lio't died of juries was brought to tho notice of tho Civi A<r«nK who have demanded a-commission o inquiry,"