THE BALKANS.

Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6043, 17 September 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

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Constantinople, September 15. There are armed insurgents totalling 2000 in Eastern Macedonia, restricting themselves to guerilla operations. New bands of Bulgarians aggregating 1600 are proceeding to the frontier.

Moslem fanatics smashed the windows of the Prensh Consu , ate Kirkihsse.

The Macedonian Committees hava sent letters to the French and Russian Ambassadors threatening to dynamite French and Russian establishments in Constantinople. A foreign officer witnessed the surrounding, sacking, and burning without provocation, of the Greek village I ii^ ran T ko - Evef y viUfl g er ™> killed and many were burned alive. The sympathy which Greece has up to now shown towards Turkey is disappearing. J , The Armenian Mafia organisation, in revenge for their successful proselytising, are assassinating, at Alexanru P iM n<^ elsewhere Bever »l P"ests of the Arthodox.

St. Petersburg. September 15, The newspaper Viedomsti advocates a Russian alliance with England, with the object of opposing German rivalry in the Balkans and Asia Minor. on. ~ LoNDON . September 16. Ihe Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent learns on the highest diplpmatic authority that Russia intends to expose Bulgaria to the danger of war and defeat and then go to the rescue, thus gaining Bulgaria's thankful allegiance. The Czar will thus master Turkey. . SoHA, September 16. The Bulgarians who retired from the first three army divisions m'nce 1900 have been summoned to re-join the ranks. This will provide 10,000 men.