MURDER OF REVOLUTIONARIES

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 19

MURDER OF REVOLUTIONARIES

CONSTANTINOPLE, December 12. A Macedonian shot and killed the well* known revolutionaries Boris Saratof and Garvatoff outside Garvatoffs house. VIENNA, December 13. The press states that Panitza, the murderer of Sarafoff and Garvanoff, was an emissary of the brigand Sanaaski, wlio abducted the American missionary Miss Stone a few years ago. Sandaski opposed Sarafoffs central organisation at Sofia. Tchernopeep, ■ Sandaski's fellow-chief, has 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 the Turks no end of trouble. He was a member of the Revolutionary Committee, an organisation which the Sultan) cannot suppress. "The Turk can play tho Great Powers of Europe one against one another, and continue to deceive them with endless promises," eaid an English writer, "but the little band of desperate men— who will not parley, who ask no quarter ancP give none, who war with dynamite against European as well as Turk — threaten to send the Mohammedan invaders back to the land where they came. Sarafoff is the most noted of the committee men, for his methods of fighting the Turks and ''Europe haLBA lu>An the most violcnU'*