FIGHT AT DAWBENI.
INSURGENTS DEFEAT TURKISH
TROOPS
BULGARIA*' SYMPATHY WITH
INSURGENTS,
INSURGENT BANDS CROSSING BULGARIAN FRONTIER,
Received September 4, 10.47 p.m
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 4
An insurgent band, under Chokalaroff, had a fight with Turkish troops at Dawbeni, in the Debra district. Both lost heavily. The troops were badly
defeated, trying to capture a pass leading over the Sateska River Valley. Congress gymnasium professors in Sofia adopted a resolution of sympathy with the revolutionaries, and expressed admiration at their bravery. Svetkoff, a Macedonian agent in Bucharest, has been arrested on a charge of extorting from various persons £1000 for Saravoff. Turkish troops defeated 200 insurgents at Dalmetogertzi, near Uskub, killing 14, They plundered and burned the village. Turkish railways refuse to convey soldiers without payment from the Government in advance. Insurgent bands are crossing the Bulgarian frontier daily. .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 12029, 5 September 1903, Page 5
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