MACEDONIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13650, 18 July 1908, Page 5

MACEDONIA.

GREAT STATE OF UNREST. REVOLTS AND MURDERS. Press Association-By telegraph-copyright Received 9.7 p.m., July 17th. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17. There ir, extraordinary unrest in Macedonia.

Major Niarzibey ipul' many other offi 1 - cers of lhe Young Turkey" Party have quitted their posts ar Resna, and lecruited and armed their adherents at Okiirida and Elorina, and demanded a Na'ional Assembly.

Several garrisons, owing to non-dis-charge upon the expiry of their service, have .mutinied. A battalion which recently assassinated General Sbemsi, their commander, refused to mireh against (heir Resna comradfc, after Siiemsi's death. . Tlie Albanians and many who also demand the constitution are being expelled by the Turkish' authorities from the Linma, Eerigovito, and Egristina districts. An Albanian shot at ami .wounded General Sadik Pacha in the neck, when he was on board the Messageries steamer Sidon, on a voyage to Salonika, when passing the Dardanelles. The assailant was arrested and handed over to the Turkish authorities.

A Turkish officer at Salonika killed' a Turkish regiment chaplain who was acting as a inpy ad Yildiz kiosk, in eonnec'ion with the Moiiaslir troubles.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17.

According to the newspaper ■■." Novoe Vremya." the Sultan, fearing that Britain's aim is the destruction of the, Ottoman Empire, is negotiating- through Prussian Gern'ralGoli/. an entry to the Triple Alliance.