THE RISING IN THE BALKANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12238, 6 April 1903, Page 5

THE RISING IN THE BALKANS.

MISSION FROM THE SULTAN. AN APPEAL TO THE ALBANIANS. INSURGENTS MASSING. ADVANCE ON NOVI BAZAR. SERVIAN PRECAUTIONS. RUSSIA AMD THE OUTBREAK. Br Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright (Received April 5, 5.13 p.m.) •Constantinople, April 4. The Sultan is sending a mission entrusted to the Mollah General and I three Albanian officials to try and bring the Albanians to a reasonable frame of mind. Diplomatic circles are convinced that the policy of cajolery is foredoomed to failure. The Russian Ambassador emphasises the fact that Turkey is facing a Mussulman rebellion, and the situation is therefore more difficult to the Porte than in dealing with a. Christian insurrection alone. Diplomatists are doubtful whether the Sultan's envoys will be received. (Received April 5, 5.30 p.m.) Constantinople, April 4. Eighteen thousand Albanians are already assembled at Diatova and Ipek, to avenge the check received . at Mitrovitza. The Government petroleum depot at Mustapasha has been dynamited. A Bulgarian band has cut the tele- ' graph lines and dynamited a bridge spanning the Augista and a neighbouring tunnel 200 yds long. London, April 4. The sudden visit of the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia to Vienna is considered in Paris as most significant. The Daily Telegraph states that 600 Albanians were killed in the Mitrovitza affair, and that the remainder are advancing upon Novi Bazar. Russia is incensed that they are not being pursued. I The Russian Pan-Slavonic party is ! clamouring for armed intervention. Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, still hopes that the troubles in Albania and Macedonia will be patched up. Four battalions of Turkish militia have arrived at Mitrovitza. Three thousand insurgents, headed by a bishop, surrounded a small detachment of Turkish troops in the mountains north of Okhrida, near Monastir, but the latter cut their way through scathless. I Belgrade, April 3. ! Owing to the massing of Turkish troops on the old Servian frontier, Servia is reinforcing her frontier garrisons. Conflicts witn bloodshed have already occured at Kumanoto and Okhrida. St. Petersburg, April 3. The Novoe Vremya publishes an article criticising the French Yellow Book on Macedonia, and rebutting me charge that pro-Macedonians in Paris were encouraging the Macedonians in the belief that Russia I would ultimately intervene. Berlin, April 3. ! The Novoe Vremya's article is interpreted in Berlin as a snub for M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Lokalauzeiger, on the other hand, accuses Russia \ of planning and financing the outbreak through a Russian official in raris in concert with M. Saravoff, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, who secretly visited him. THE WOUNDED CONSUL. Constantinople, April 3. The Sultan has sent an eminent physician to see the Russian Consul, Colonel Stehenbino, who was wounded by an Albanian soldier at Mitrovitza. The bullet lodged in the liver without causing injury to the intestines. Mashkoff, Consul at.Uskub, has been entrusted with the Consulate at Mitrovika, andMandelstani, the second dragoman of the Russian Embassy here, has assumed the Consulate at Uskub. ATTITUDE OF AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. London, April 3. Austria supported Russia's representations to the Porte regarding the • necessity for suppressing the Albaj nian revolt. ! Austrian official newspapers declare that Turkey must mercilessly punish the Albanians and Macedonians, and add that an Austro-Rus-I sian understanding prevents outside intervention.

PROPOSED DECLARATION BY THE POWERS. Berlin, April 3. The Neue Werner Tagblatt states that Lord Lansdowne (the British Minister for Foreign Affairs) has i promised to consider a suggestion I that the signatories to the Berlin i Treaty should be invited to sign a '. declaration that they will not seek ; territorial aggrandisement in the Balkan Penin&ula. GERMANY'S ADVICE TO TEE SULTAN.. Berlin, April 3. Germany has urged the Sultan to proceed 'with reforms, suppress Macedonian excesses and punish the authors of the attack on the Russian Consulate at Mitrovitza. REDIFS SUMMONED TO SALONICA. Constantinople, April 3. The Redifs, a section of the Turkish army system at Smyrna, numbering 12,000, have been summoned to Salonica.-. ■ . .."