BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 198, 3 September 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

NB PBna ABBOOIATIOH. Cokstahtisople, September I. Colonel eJarafoff is directing the infargent operations near Salocica. Hilmi has imposed a blockade upon Teles in the TJskub district in order to prevent the inhabitants from joining thf insurgent bands. The authorities subjected them to the u'most cruelties. { A Bulgarian agent at Uakub reports that the troops garrisoning towns throughout the Yilnyet are spreading terror and destruction and committing •vsry conceivable outrage. The authorities an powerless to check them. In official and revolutionary circles at Sofia it is feared the condition of Macedonia will precipitate a conflict between Turkey and Bulgaria. Lostdox, September 1. The tone of the French Press is more outspoken, condemning the passive attitude of the Powers over the Macedonian trouble. BU33IAN AND GERMAN SUGGESTIONS. THE SULTAN OB3TINATB. Constantinople, September 2. Count Zinovieff, Russian, and Count Ton Riebsrstein, German Ambassadois to Turkey, have recommended greater energy against the insurgents and the appoin'ment of a capable commander entrusted with the full direction of operations. Tbe Sultan replied that he preferred operations being l directed from Constantinople. Diplomatists fear this will lead to disaster. YILLAGE3 BURNT AND PILLAGED. WHOLESALE HABSAOREB. fiaceiwd 2,1031 p m. CoNSTAKTiNoWiE, September 2. Oonsular despatches from PrisLtina State that most of the Christian villages in the Dibra and Caceoo districts have been pillaged and burned. It is not stated whether the Albanians or Bulgarians were the assailants. Adrioes from Sofia state that the Turks plundered and burned Volkoder and Pokarnik, southwards of Beseu, and attacked S ilovo, northwards of Italkotirnovo, expelling th'e insurgents. The troops entered and masscred the whole population and destroyed the viUegee. BULGARIANS ENTER MACEDONIA. OAPIUHB OF INSURGENTS, Received 2,11.43 p.m. Sofia, S3ptember 2. The Bulgarian leader Tchernoreff, With 200 men, has entered Macedonia, Toe Bulgarian authorities captured and interned a party of insurgents trying to cross the frontier. Cohstastisoph, September 2. The Forte has informed the Ambassadors that the committees io Bulgaria are shipping ammunition and supplies for the insurgents n *H« I -iada coast.