TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS
[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Per Press Association. Received September 21, at 10.58 p.m. Sofia, September 21. Bulgaria has explained that her note is not intended as an ultimatum, but only an appeal to the Powers before it is too late. The Macedonian chiefs threaten to commit atrocities compared with which the Turkish outrages are mere child's play, unless the Powers intervene.
Constantinople, September 21. Fifteen hundred insurgents under exBulgarian officers have attacked Melnik, and it is likely that they will overwhelm, the garrison. The Sultan promised M. Zinovieff, the Itussian Ambassador, that fie would punish the perpetrators of excesses. Belgrade, September 21.
The Servian press advocates reconciliation with Bulgaria and closer commercial relations, with, a -defensive alliance against Turkey.
Berlin, September 21. Count Goluchowski and Count von Bulow had a conference. It is believed that Germany agrees to support Austro-Ru6sian reforms in the Balkans even if the Czar and the Emperor Francis Joseph extend their programme. Neither expects war this autumn. Received September 22, at 1.14 a.m. Constantinople, September 21. It is reported here that Bulgarian engineers, assisted by six Russian volunteer officers, .are surveying- the coast for a fortified camp for 18,000 men.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8292, 22 September 1903, Page 1
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