ALBANIA REVOLTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1147, 7 June 1911, Page 5

ALBANIA REVOLTS.

TURKISH YOKE REPUDIATED. HORRIBLE ACTS OF BRUTALITY BY TROOPS. SULTAN STARTS FOR SCENE, A CAPITAL PROCLAIMED. By Telceraph-PreßS Associaticm-CoDjriEht. Cetinje, June 5. The Mirdites, the most powerful of the Albanian tribes, having command of 10,000 armed men, have proclaimed autonomy in Albania. A provisional Government has been appointed. Oroshi, 30 miles south-east of Scutari, has been established as the capital. The Mirdites are all Catholics. They occupy an inaccessible mountain district. The Turks are hastily collecting reinforcements at Salonika. A quantity of dynamite apparatus foi manufacturing bombs has been discovered in the Koepruelue district, near a railway on which the Sultan was expected to travel. The Procurator-General at Monastir was murdered by unknown assassins. SULTAN SAILS FOR SALONIKA. MINISTERS ACCOMPANY HIM. (Bee. June 6, 10 p.m.) Constantinople, Juno 6. The Sultan and his two sons, the Grand Vizier, and the Minister for Interior, and the Minister for Marine, havo embarked on a battleship for Salonika. Several cruisers are escorting them. The Public Prosecutor has , been murdered at Monastir. He was instructed on Saturday to. prosecute the proprietor of a newspaper belonging to the Extreme Left, which had been violently assailing the non-Turkish communities in Macedonia and all the Balkan States. The murderer was a Moslem fanatic. OLD PEOPLE INCINERATED. ARTILLERY TURNED ON RESCUERS. (Rec. June 7, 0.35 a.m.) London, June 6. An Englishman travelling in Albania writes to the "Morning Post" fiat the Turks are burning houses in Skreli and Kostrati wholesale. Aged and infirm peasants were incinerated, and when eight insurgents, hearing the wouiided's mad shrieks for help, descended a hill at Kostrati to rescue them, the artillery was turned on them. Six of the. insurgents were killed. Two of the women and children incinerated, being Moslems, did not consider it necessary to fly, but they were mistaken for Christians. The correspondent adds that many thousands of destitute women and children are at Podgoritza, which lies in' Montenegro, just over tho Turkish border. REBELS CAPTURE ALESSIO. THREE BATTALIONS DISPATCHED. (Rec. June 6, 9.30 p.m.) Cetinje, June 6. The Mirdites have captured the. old citadel at Alessio, near Scutari. ■ Shevket Turgut Pasha was dispatched with threo battalions and six guns to the relief of Alessio. Tho Mirdites attacked the troops at Zndrima, between Scutari and Alessio. SKIRMISH ON GRECIAN FRONTIER. 1 Athens, Tiine 5. Pour Turkish soldiers were, wounded in the courso of a sharp encounter with Greeks on the frontier. ■