THE BALKAN SITUATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9847, 14 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKAN SITUATION.

Electric Telegraph - Copyright- United P ess Association CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 11. Two thousand Turks, with two guns, landed .and attacked Vasilico, which at latest .reports was still m possession of the insurgents. > . Consular reports from Salonika state that 3000 insurgents m Zelonitz, Kastoria district, being surrounded, surrendered Thereupon they were massacred. (Received September 14, ■•'9.14 a.m.) \ CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept, 13. The prisons of Constantinople an? crowded with Bulgarians .'and Macedohr ians arrested on the eve of the anniversary .of the Sultan's accession. Eighty-four Christian villages m Monastir district have been- destroyed during the recent operations; • The Turks are preparing a big "drive" m the Yenidge district. . ■ In a recent fight at Resua one hundred and three insurgents were killed. The Powers snpported America's demand for the dismissal of the VaJi of Beirut. PARIS, Sept. 13. Admiral Jaure Quibereng is m readiness to take two French battleships and three cruisers to the Levant to protect French interests. SOFIA. Sept. 11. The Bulgarian Premier has intimated to the Powers that unless means are devised to restrain. Turkish excesses it will be difficult for Bulgaria to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality m the face of popular indignation. ' ■'. NEWS BY 'FRISCO MAIL. }Per' S.s. Sierra at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27. The Bulgarian and Turkish crisis is cicute, mid there is every indication of complications. A' despatch to the London Times, dated Sofia, August 26, says:— "The repressive measures by the Turks m Macedonia have reached the utmost limits of barbarism. - It is evident their intention is to accomplish by degrees the extermination of the Bulgarian population. . ,In the last few days 12 more Christian villages have been handed over to fire and the sword. Women, children and'thf. aged have been massacred indiscriminately. Convoys of prisoners despatched to Monastir were murdered by their escorts on the way." . ,■. ■'.'■' A private letter from the foreign residents of Monastir says the local Turks are disgusted, and meditate assassinating the Consuls' to provoke European, intervention. - The insurgents are doubtless taking a terrible revenge and executing the revolutionary programme to the letter. The reported concentration of large Turkish forces m Adrianople districts and at other points oil the Bulgarian, froiitier is regarded with, much apprehension m Sofia. It was well known that m the case of war invasion Avould come m. that direction. . In special despatches from the. East a srloomy view is taken of the crisis m the Balkans. to a report from Constantinople a rumor current there that' war had already been .declared against Bulgaria proved, unfounded, but the popular feeling is such that no other issue is regarded as possible. Ib is further stated that although the Russian squadron has been, withdrawn it will .continue to cruise near the Bosphorus. "