BALKAN CRISIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 5

BALKAN CRISIS.

BULGARIAN TROOPS MOB- | ILISING. A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrlcbt LONDON, 25th January. It is reported from Sofia that the Bulgarian Government has ordered the mobilisation of a division of the army at Stara Zagora, a town in Eastern Roumelia, fifty miles north-east of Philippopolis. This is believed to be a precautionary measure owing to the concentration of Turkish troops near Mustafa Pasha. The latter is a small, town on the railway from Dedeh Agatch to Sofia, and lies about twenty-five miles north-west of Adrianople. The presence of the Ottoman troops at Mustafa Pasha threatens the strate gical position of Tirnova, a town and station at the junction of the main railway with a branch line running through Eastern Roumetia to the Black Sea port of Burghas. ' Tirnova is the key to Southern Bulgaria. ' DISTURBANCES AT PRAGUE. RACE TROUBLES. MOB CHARGED WITH FIXED BAYONETS. LONDON, 25th January. Telegrams from Prague, the capital of the crownland of Bohemia, in AustriaHungary, state that further disturbances have occurred there between the Czech and German sections of the community. Gendarmes were called on to quell the disorders, and they charged the mob with fixed bayonets, causing a panic, in which several persons were trampled upon, suffering serious injury. Later on the crpwds gathered again, and attacked the gendarmes, whom they stoned, amid shouts of " Long live Servia !"