THE BALKAN STATES

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 34

THE BALKAN STATES

UGLY RrMOTRS. CHARGED AGAINST TURKISH OFFICIALS. LONDON, June 7. The Daily New-, although disbelieving the *tory, publishes its Sofia correspondent's inform.. Lion to the effect that the Macedonian revolutionary leaders in that city are in cos«e--ion of quantities of Indian pl.-'.guo bacillus, and that they threaten that unless the Powers within a week uunranteo the exr 'ution of the Berlin' Treaty tliry will infect ConstfutiI nople, Salome i, and Berlin. J"t'ne 5. Cou-nlar iincl otl'fi- rr-port- that tl"io wcio )io bombs thrown or rosktanc" ofioivrl at S.'iiardesh. A band had retired, and the regulars and BashiBazouks arming bombarded and burnt Smardesh, and slaughtered 200, mostly cornea and children, ar.d the soldiers overtook some fugitive-, and cut off their ear- and no^c.-, and then butchered them. Forty Smardcsh women and. children were overtaken in the ravines and killed after being nibjeeted to horrible tre.^nient. Fifteen hundred fugitives from other villages are roaming, naked and hungry, in the mountain*:. June 6. A Servian new -pa per reports that a prisoner during tho cour*-o of the inquiry into the Salonika explo-ions declared that he paid £270 to the Turkish police and Customs officer*, for passing the dynamite u-ed in exploding the Ottoman B.mk. VIENNA, June 4. Persistent reports are current ia Vienna of plots to assassinate King Alexander of Servia and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. A French cook in the palace at Belgrade was fouud shot through the ho.nt. Hi- death is ascribed to suicide, owinc: to a plot to poison Queen Divgi's iood being discoyeral ju-t, bjoio*

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 1. Hilmi Pasha intends to exile to Tripoli and Yemen without trial 103 Bulgarian and Macedonian schoolmasters, also a rich merchant, considering them all to be dangerous ringleaders. June 8. At Russia's instance, Eelma Pasha lias modined the severity of martial law in Salonica.