THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 985, 3 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

TROOPS COMMITTING- EVERY CONCEIVABLE OUTRAGE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Constantinople, Sept. 1. Hilmi Pasha has imposed a blockade onVeles, in Uskub district, in order to prevent the inhabitants joining the insurgent bands. Tlie authorities subjected them to the utmost cruelties.

The Bulgarian agent in Uskub reports that the troops are garrisoning towns throughout the vilayet, spreading terror and destruction, ana committing every conceivable outrage. The authorities aro powerless to cheek them. In official and revolutionary circles in Sofia it is feared the condition of Macedo

nia will precipitate a conflict between Turkey and Roumania. Colonel Sarafofl is directing insurgent operations near Salonika. MORE MASSACRES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.31 p.m., Sept. 2 Constantinople, Sc-pt. 2. Consular despatches from Prishtina state that most Christian villages in Dibla and Caceoo districts have been pillaged and burned. It is not stated whether Albanians or Bulgarians were assailants. Advices from Sofia state that Turks pumdered and burned Volkodcr and Pokarnik, southwards of Reseu. They attacked Soiiovo northwards of Malkotirnovo. Expolling tho insurgents the troops entered, massacred the whole population, and destroyed tho village.

THE SULTAN SNUBS THE AM BASSADORS.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) Received 10.31 p.m. Sept. 2. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sep. 2. Count Zinovieff, Russian Ambassador in Turkey, and Count Von Brcberstcin, the German Ambassador, recommended greater energy Against insurgents, and the appointment of a capable commander entrusted with Hie full direction of operations. The Sultan replied that be preferred to have operations • directed from Constantinople. - Diplomatists fear that this will lead to disaster.

Vienna, Sept. 2, Tho strikingly warm tone of the Royal speeches, and the honors conferred upon Emperor Joseph, are interpreted in Vienna and Buda Pesth to mean, besides mutual amity, distinct approval of Joseph’s disinterested policy ns regards tho Balkans. Constantinople, Sept. 2.

The Porto informed the Ambassadors that committees in Bulgaria aro shipping ammunition and supplies for insurgents to Iniada coast.

Sofia, Sept. 2. Tho Bulgarian loader Teherinoreff with 200 men, has entered Macedonia. Bulgarian authorities captured and interned a party of insurgents trying to cross tho frontier.