THE BALKANS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1911, Page 6

THE BALKANS.

FURTHER ALBANIAN EXCESSES

TU R KISH REININFORCEMEN TS ATTACKED. [PEE PHE93 ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] CETTINJE, June, 6. The Mertlites have captured 010, Citadec and Alessio. Shevket Turgut, the Turkish commander, has despatched three battalions of troops, with six guns to the relief of Alessio, which is the latest capture of the Albanians. The Merdites, however, have attacked these troops at Zadrinia, between bkutari and Alessio-. SULTAN LEAVES FOR SALONIKA. CONSTANTINOPLE, June, 6. The Sultan, his two sons, the Grand Vizier, and the Ministers of the Interior and of Marine have embarked in a battleship at the capital to proceed to Salonika. Several cruisers are escorting them. MOSLEM FANATICISM. CONSTANTINOPLE, June, 6.—The Public Prosecutor has been murdered at Monistir by a Turk over an action initiated by him in opposition to a local anti-foreign campaign. The Prosecutor had been instructed on Saturday last to prosecute the proprietor of a newspaper there belonging to the Extreme Left, which has been violently assailing the. non-Turkish communities of Macedonia and all the Balkan States. His murderer is a Moslem fanatic. HORRIBLE TURKISH BARBARITIES. WHOLESALE BURNING OF ALBANIANS. LONDON, June, 6. An Englishman travelling in Albania writes to the. Morning Post giving an account of revolting barbarities that are being perpetrated by the Turks upon the Albanians. He states that tlir- tnrks are burning the houses in the Skreli and Kostrali districts wholesale. The aged and infirm peasants living in the houses are being incinerated. He relates an incident wherein eight of the insurgents, hearing tho wounded people’s mad shrieks lor help, descended a bill in Kostrali to go to their rescue. The Turkish artillery, however, was turned on to them, ana six wore killed. In another case a number of women and children were incinerated in a house. Being Moslems they did not consider it necessary to fly, and were mistaken for Christians. Tho writer adds that there are many thousands of destitute Albanian women and children at Podgoritga.