WAR DEMANDED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 226, 27 August 1912, Page 5

WAR DEMANDED.

SERVIANS AT FEVER HEAT. MASSACRES BY MOSLEMS. [ PRESS ASSOCIATION — COPYRIGHT. ] Belgrade, Aug. 26. Five thousand persons met and denounced the Sienitza massacre. A procession took place in front of the palace urging war on Turkey. The Moslem inhabitants of Sienitza seized the arsenal, took arms and attacked tiie C’hristans. Ilia Popovitch, prefect of Berana. who is an educated Serb, was assassinated in front of the courts of justice at Sienitza. There is a still worse situation at Belopoleh. where hundreds were kiaed.

The Turks are furious against the Montegrins, and are apparently revenging themselves. The Serb refugees are bringing to Scrvia terrible stories of the Turkish atrocities. BULGARIA’S ATTITUDE. DEMANDS FROM TURKEY. London. Aug. 26. Reuter’s Constantinople correspondent says that owing to the continued agitation in Bulgaria over the Kochana affair. King Ferdinand remains at Sofia, and M. Gueshoff, the Premier, has abandoned his visit to Victry.

Some diplomatic circles consider Count Berchtold’s proposal inopportune and calculated to increase Macedonian national aspirations. The Porte has apparently resolved not to admit any of the Powers’ suggestions tending to decentralisation.

M. <le Giers warned the Porte that any concessions to the Albanians ought to be granted to other nationalities. and urged prompt punishment to those guilty of the Kochana massacre, also measures to prevent the recurrence of such affairs. The Porte has proclaimed a state of seige at Kochana. and ordered the guilty to be tried by courtmart ial, and is distributing a thousand pounds among ihc sufferers. The “ Times’ ” Sofia correspondent says that crowded meetings of Macedonian delegates and Bulgarian politicians of all shades urged the Government to demand from Turkey great powers of autonomy for Macedonia and the Adrianople villayet, with a Bulgarian Governor and a national militia, and to mobolise the army on t he Turkish frontier. Wreaths were laid on the statue of the Czar Liberator.

A declaration of war against Turkey was unanimously demanded by a mass meeting of 20,000 people that was held in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. The speakers declared that the condition of Bulgaria. Macedonia, and the vilayet of Adrianople had become intolerable, and a resolution was passed calling upon the l Government to deliver the people from their sufferings. Representatives of all political parties supported the meeting in its demand. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at the close of the meeting. Carrying black flags, and with the church bells tolling, a procession marched through the principal streets of the city, and finally brought up at the palace of the King. Here the people attempted to surge through the gates, but the palace guard were called out. and the crowd turned back. ROUMANIA DESIRES TRANQUILITY. ! ( Vienna. Aug. 2(5. The cordiality of Court Berchtold’s reception at Sinaia is accepted as an I indication that Austria-Hungary’s and Roumania’s political aims are in accord in the promotion of tranquility in the Balkans. A MONTENEGRIN ASSURANCE.. London, Aug. 26. [ King Nicholas has assured the j Powers that no Montenegrin is allowed across the frontier.