BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 199, 8 September 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

GENERAL IJfBDKRKCIIOIT | PROCLAIMED, j Per Press Association. | Cohstantikoplb, September 7. j Twenty five M cedonian peasants in 1 the P'orina dietiier, who were driven I by terror to the mountains, returned! Under a proclamation promising them pardon, Tre guards escorting them to Plorica massacred them. The in6urg<rts were recently Strengthened by » company < t AlbanUeb while pasting through Kiepevo valley among Kj lander mountains. The insurgents have issued a proclamation of a general insurrection addressed to their brethren in Macedonia and Adriancple. The keyno'e of the prcchmition is contained in the following sentence:—" The dawn ef liberty peeps over the Macedonian horiron; the hour of battle strikes," IHB STEAMER UUTRaQB. BULGiRIAH NEUTRALITY. GOOD BBASONB FOB AVOIDING WAR. MARTIAL LAW THREATENED. Beeeived 7.10.50 p.m. Cokstaminoplb, September 7. Details of the outrage on the steamer Veekapu shows that a dynamite bomb was thrown into the stokehole, and another ur.der the bridge, des'roying the cabin where the captain and two effisers were asleep) ui;d setting on fire the forehold. Sofia, September 7. The Bulgarian Council of Ministers decided to continue the strictest neutrality; and stringently prevent anything Calculated to disturb present relation*. Colonel Saroff, Commandaut of the Military School, strongly opposed any idea of war against Turkey, fi stly, on the ground that it wou'd involve an enormous expenditure, and secondly, that the Powers would never permit Bulgaria, if victorious, to reap any advantage. The Cabinet also resolved that in the event < f symptoms of disorder on the frontier, marial law would be pro claimed at Burgas, Kus'endel, Phillopololis, and Sofia. The Ministers expressed an opinion that Europe would soon be convinced of the necessity for the Powers' intervention to settle the Macedonian trouble. The Bulgarian guard) on the frontier have been reinforced in order to intercept the revolutionary b<nds. CONTINUED FIGHTING. OLOTHING FOB TBOOP3. FURTHER TURKISH ATROCITIES. Received 8,0.4 a.m. Cohbtastihow.k, September 7. In a fight at Sirbinovo in the Jumbla district between three binds and a bat'alion of troop*, 300 of the latter are reported to hive b> en killed. The Sul'an is giving 50,000 woollen coats to tin troops in Rouroelia, and has invitfd cuotributiocs of flinnel vests, boote,' and Broke. Revolutionary advicts state that the Bisbibazoukg surrounded "VMkosti in the Dibra district; that some entered the village for plunder and esfflul'ed the women, while the rest killed the inhabitants who were trying to escape. The Turks fet fire to Yelkosti in four places, bun ing twelve women and children. One child was hanged and 60 peasants killed. At the instance of Greece, the Porte baßcrder>d an i- quiry into theK>ushevo aff if, and punishment of officers concerned. Tbe Sultan become excited at Chevkst Pasha bec*Uß9 the Utter proposed tn invade Bulgaria at the head of 30,000 men. Most cf the Embassies are guarded inside by aimed soldiers from the guardthipg. Tbe American warships arrived at Beyrout. There is eviderce tt.a* Mr Magallse" was fired at, and it is b.lieveJ the assailant is known. Vienna. S ptembcr 7. The New Frei rresse sssfrts' hit, the police at Ktambc-ul arrested ETadjibian, an Armenian assistant dragoman at the Russian Embassy.