THE BALKANS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CX, Issue 13216, 27 August 1903, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

MOSLEM FANATICISM. THE BULGARIAN RISING SPREADING. STRONG WAR FEELING AMONGST! TURKISH MILITARY. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 25. Regarding the massacre of Christians in Adrianople, the City Vali confessed to the Consuls his inability to check Moslem fanaticism. . , THE RISING SPREADING. TURKEY PURCHASING ARMS. A WAR FEELING. LONDON, August 25. The “Times” states that many rifles have crossed the Bulgarian frontier and several large bands have started for Macedonia. The movement under Sarafofi’s guidance is likely to soon become more formidable. The “ Daily Mail ” alleges that the Porte has contracted with a Mauser factory for two hundred thousand rifles and a hundred million cartridges. The Turkish military authorities display a great desire for war with Bulgaria. A DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS KILLED. * VIENNA, August 25. The “ Neue Free Presse ” states that the Government Buildings at Burgas, a vilayet in Adrianople, were destroyed by dynamite and 260 people killed. INFLUENCE OF THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON. RUSSIA’S POLICY. LONDON, August 25. The “ Times ” declares that the presence of the Russian Squadron set the vilayet aflame. Russia has no desire for genuine reform, and is not desirous to precipitate matters, but it is her traditional policy to allow the States she intends to absorb to sink into advanced decomposition. The Powers must try some fresh scheme of reform. THE ADRIANOPLE MASSACRE. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 25. One version of the Adrianople massacre is uiat the fort fired on the insurgents, who were attacking an outpost. A panic followed, and the populace assailed the Christians. Another is that a Turkish officer tried to enter a Bulgarian house., The resistance which was offered excited the Moslem soldiers and Bashi-Bazouks, who attacked the Bulgarian quarter. GHASTLY SCENES IN KRUSHEVO. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 25. Krushevo is strewn with dead bodies, all stripped naked. The people are afraid to bury them, lest they should incur the Turks’ suspicions. PRINCE FERDINAND OP BULGARIA. HIS THRONE IN JEOPARDY. SOFIA, August 26. Six prominent Bulgarians have 'been sent to Hungary to demand that Prince Ferdinand should make' a declaration of his attitude towards Macedonia. Unless he replies within ten days they are authorised to give him notice that he is dethroned, and that his return is prohibited. It is not expected that Prince Ferdinand will return. A NEW TURKISH COMMANDER., TERRIBLE OUTRAGES IN MONASTIR. . TURKISH BRUTALITY. (Received August 26, 10.51 pan.) CONSTANTINOPLE, August 26. Ibrahim Pasha will supersede Omer Pasha as Turkish cammanden in the disaffected districts. Omer lias been recalled. There is growing restlessness and excitement in Belgrade and Sofia owing to the atrocities marking the suppression of /the rising in the Monastir district, where the Turks have the upper hand. Ninety women and children in one building in Krushevo were cut to pieces and thrown into the street. The heads of fifteen merchants were carried on poles in Monastin. While the troops were repelling an attack in Tcherkeskoi, between Adrianople and Constantinople, the Circassian, inhabitants massacred the occupants of three Bulgarian villages in the vicinity.