MURDER OF REVOLUTION ARIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14087, 16 December 1907, Page 5

MURDER OF REVOLUTION ARIES

'AN ARREST MADE,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

VIENNA, December 13. The press states that Panitza, the murderer of Sarafoff and Garvanofl', was an emissary of the brigand Sandaski, who abducted tlio American missionary Miss Stono a few years ago. Sandaski opposed Sarafoff's central organisation at Sofia, fchernopcep, Sandaski's fellow-chief, lias been arrested at Sofia, but Panitza has escaped.

Boris Sarafoff was probably the most famous of the Macedonian revolutionaries, a man whose courage and talent for organisation gave tho Turk/i no end of trouble. He was a member of the Revolutionary Committee, an organisation which the' Sultan rannot suppress. "The Turk can play the Great Powers of Europe one against ono another, and continue to deceive them with endless promises," said an English writer, 'but the little band of desperate men—who Will not parley, who ask no quarter and Rivo none, who war with dynamite against European as well as Turk—threaten to send the Mohammodan invaders back to tho Jand whore tliay came. Sarafoff is the most liotod of the committee men, for his methods of fighting tho Turks and Europe have been tho most violent."

Sarafoff wrote an article on the Macedonian question three years ago for tho World's Work. Ho explained there that ho and his followers had abandoned ali hope of reform. "We are going to fight on in Macedonia. Wo have 70 bajids, numbering from 10 to 20 men each, in the mountains atpresent. Those aro doing no fighting against the Turkish troops except when discovered and attacked. When a massacre and plunder or other gross outrage occurs such as I lie recent adaj'r at Goineji, tho Turks are made to pay a penalty—if not in Wood, then in money, or destruction of railway or othor property by dynamite, fiucli retaliation is not inflicted solely in a spirit of revenue; it is moalit to keep alive .in the Turkish Government a. wholesome respect for the Internal liovolutiou> ary organisation."