TROUBLED BALKANS.
REFUGEES CHANGE THEIR REI/IGION. HOPES OF PEACE. Received 19, 10.41 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 19. Macedonian refugees are becoming Catholics in order to return under foreign protection. M. Petroff, Bulgarian Premier, speaking at Phillipolis, stated that although the situation was very critical he believed a pacific understanding would be arranged with Turkey. TROOPS SAID TO BE DISBANDING. Received 20, §.57 a.m. ,, t IyONDON, October 19. Sir N. R. O'Connor, British Ambassador in Turkey, recently made urgent ' representations to the Porte with reference to the inexcusable excesses on the Turkish < side, although Lord Lansdowne admitted that the insurgents had been guilty of serious outrages. Reuter states that Bulgaria and Turkey have agreed to disband ten thousand attd twenty thousand troops respectively.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7820, 20 October 1903, Page 2
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121TROUBLED BALKANS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7820, 20 October 1903, Page 2
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