BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 96, 21 April 1903, Page 2

BALKAN CRISIS.

AUDIENOiSS WIIH THE SULTAN. MORE PROMISES. PER PKESS ASSOCIATION. Keceive l 20 10.35 p.m. Constantinople, April 20. Baron Calico (Austrian Ambissador) md M.Ziuovieff (Russian Ambassador) hid a joint audience with the Sultan, atid emphasized that a firm, serious tons was neoi'ssiry, dcclai in * that the hostile attitude of the Albanian chiefs encouraged the insurrectionary movement in Bulgaria and Macadsoia, and that unless order was re-established the responsibility would weigh heavily on Turkey, who was unsupported. The SuLan, in reply, promised to take all possible measures to induce the Albanians to tubmit.

The Itilian Amb.ssador was given an audience, and urged that adequate and energetic measures should be tiken.

Herr Wargarheim, First Secretary of tho Oermau Embassy, recommended the Sultan to follow the Powers' advice.

The Sultan replied that ha intended to follow it. The members of the Pacification Commission are held as Instates at I pes. KING ALEXANDER INTERVIEWED. Received 20,11.11 p.m. Belgrade, April 20. King Alexind.r, in an interview with tbe London Daily Mail representative, s.'.id tbat ono danger of the situation was the massing of troops at Old Servia, as if that continues Servia muse take similar ptvcuu ijnary steps. TURKEY'S POWKR9. Received 21,1.10 a.m. London, April 20. The Times' Paris corr-spondent says the Austro-tiussian entente allows Turkey, in the event of Bulgaria seiving as a bf-si-t of revolutionary movenent, unrestricted measures of repression, extending rcross the Bulgarian and Servian frontiers. Constantinople, April 20. The Sultan summoned t.vea'y Konia and Angori bittaliois rf for service in Albanii.