THE BALKANS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12143, 11 August 1903, Page 3

THE BALKANS.

THE TURKS TAKEN UNAWARES. ) ) SHOOTING A RUSSIAN CONSUL. 'j,,-' United Preis Associatiore-Per Electric \ • Telegraph—Copyright. Received 8.46 a.m., August 10th. SOFIA, August 9Ten thousand insurgents, in four camps, ( J >are in operation in the Monastir district, and tin' thousand at Kastoria. They are all well armed, and have plenty of money Anticipating the rising oy three weeks,' !they have caught the Turks napping. The Bulgarian Government has asked the Powers to influence the Porte not to *m- - , ploy Bashi Bazouks in suppressing the Mr ; .fcelhon. LONDON, Augusts. In the Bulgarian question, England supports Austria and, Russia, who are >considered 'to be still striving to restore ipeace. CONSTANTINOPLE, August .9. _A dynamite explosion occurred in the centre of Phihppppolis, and .killed /three persons It is believed that the police sttr,pnsed a party of revolutionwts, and in ttoe confusion a bomb was dropped and exploded >■«'■', ■'■, • , A Turkish gendarme shot M.'Rostkovsky. the Russian Consul at Monastir, during an altercation over the omission of a greeting. BULGARIANS ACCUSED 0E MASSACRE. OTE INSURRECTION SPREAKENG. Received IL3O p.m., August 10th. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 10. The Turks accuse the Bulgarians of mas- '* 'eacnng men, women ;tnd children at Zjwarek and Djwarekoknda, and burning some , flf theni ali\e Omer Pasha is leatling 16 battaliors from* 1 "Prejrend to Monastir', "and mobilising 24 fresh battaUons of reserves in the Salonika idtftnct The insurrection is spreading in the direction of Salonika and Uskub.

LONDON, August 10. ? ' The " Times " says • that since ; reform •settlement has failed, it is urgently 'necessary that Russia and Austria should •consider they might longer ; refrain jrom >more decisive steps.