THE MACEDONIAN CLOUD

Evening Star, Issue 11863, 17 April 1903, Page 6

THE MACEDONIAN CLOUD

THE REVOLUTIONARY PLANS.

A TRAITOR’S STORY.

TURKEY’S MILITARY STRENGTH.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16. A traitor has informed the European Consul at Salonica of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee’s methods. He-stated that the inhabitants of Macedonia, under pain of death, were compelled to accept the Committee’s bonds, repayable after Macedonia has been liberated from Turkish rule. He alleged that women carried revolutionary correspondence across the frontier. He also averred that 180 Bulgarian officers, disguised as pilgrims, are now operating in Macedonia, and that 120.000 rifles and large quantities of cartridges, bombs, and dynamite have been imported under the guise of holy relics. Customs officers conniving at the importation. It was expected that the rebellion would begin at the time of the Greek Easter holidays, when the railway bridges and tunnels were to be dynamited, accompanied by wholesale incendiarism and, at the carnival massacre and pillage. ’ The Macedonian internal organisation have resolved to abandon a general insurrection for 1903, owing to Turkey’s overwhelming military strength and the improbability of outside aid being afforded. They confine their operations to guerrilla warfare.

RUSSIA’S DEMAND.

TURKEY’S ANSWER.

ALBANIANS UNITE FOR ACTION.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16. The Russian Ambassador (M. Zinovieff) having informed the Sultan that Ibrahim Hie assailant of the late M. Stcberbina! Russian Consul at Mitrovitza, who had been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, should either be acquitted or executed, Ibrahim has bow been sentenced to death at Mitrovitza. With a view to uniting to resist the proposed reforms, the Albanians have declared a truce to inter-tribal quarrels. ‘THE TIMES’ RESPONSIBLE. LONDON, April 16. (Received April 17, at 8.55 a.m.) ‘ The Tiroes * is responsible for the statement, which is founded on reports current in Sofia, that the leadera of the Macedonian internal organisation had decided to abandon a general insurrection. the MILITARY DIRECTOR. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 16. The Sultan has appointed Edhem Pasha to be director of the military operations in European Turkey.