SANDANSKY WOUNDED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 7

SANDANSKY WOUNDED.

A MIDNIGHT SHOT IN SALONIKA. SARAFOFF'S MTJEDEBEE. (Br Ttlecrapti.-Freia AiioelitlonAOopyrlrhl.l ,- Constantinople, August 30. Adherents of a faction formerly led by Boris Sarafoff shot Sandansky at midnight in the centre of Salonika, severely wounding 'him in the chest. London, August 30. The "Daily Mail" Bays that Sandansky was responsible for the most horriblo outrages during the Macedonian atrocities, thousands being muTdored by his orders. He is reputed to havo committed 300 murders with his own hand.

TWO REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS: i '•; StBAFfjiTS iCAEKE&'.i-.'',': -?}■ '■ • Sandansky., was :for: long' an' influential—but not the most, influential—revolutionary "leader in Macedonia. * His special sphere-of influence was tbo Seres', district.,. The-murdor of the revolutionary leader Boris Sarafoff: in 1907* by Sandansky.'s emissary Panitza,' caused ■ Sandansky to be .outlawed in Bulgaria, whore Sara-' fori was a popular, hero. This made Sandansky the' more willing, in the' July revolution last '. year; toride' with the Young Turks./- Since thenhe;has not-'been'very much in evidence, esccpt iniOctober last, when, it was reported. ho:got;ilitoa Bulgiirain alt'ray in a Salonika cafe, two-people being killed and Sandansky. being badly. wounded. He -is - a man '■ of no ciilture but wields great power among his own. element.," /\i : ■■■ y:~ --, '~ ;. ',■■. :.'■:.■:'■"■.:'■■.■■■■

■ .Boris SarafcS,. murdered by order, of- San-' dansky'i was a', rvoluteionary leader of the olassio typo. Por'twelve years ho was to the Balkans wttat Garibaldi'.was to the Italian peninsula. He hesitated at:no measures if they seemed to 'lead .'.toward the one object of his life—the liberation "of Macedonia from the power of the hated:.Turk'. He was the hero of. the nation, and from one end; of the country to the other the'people.hailed'him as "King Boris," and. hundreds :of 'lawless villagers and ,brigand bands simply: lived to perform his will. About H years:ago,; forming a band of eighty followers, he made a raid on the; Macedonian town-of Melnik.'. He was not expeoted, and the ..raid succeeded.:; The Turkish Governor was looked up in his gaol, the prisoners were freed, the Government buildings were burnt down, and tho raiders vanished into the, mountains just'as a large.body of Turkish: cavalry dashed into the;town.-'. For many, years', a price of £1500 was-sot on Sarafoff's head by the • Turkish: Government, while at one time over. 100,000 Turkish soldiers, were scouring the province in search, of him. .But they never, found him. , His bands were only visible 'when ,thcy struck. For himsolf, ho might "have,been jpossessed of the magic carpot. '• Ono day he would ;be heard of leading a raid on the. Bnlgarian border. . Turkish troops would surround the entire district, and his. capture would, seem'inevitable. , But the, next day would come the news that he was blowing -up bridges, .banks, or-barracks at the other end; of the province. His hairbreadth escapes were numbered by the hundred. Once he was, really arrested by Bulgarian troops, but'the popular outcry in his.favour. forced Prince Ferdinand to release him rather than hand him over to the Turkish Government. Finally ho fell to the hand' of Pnnitzn: when Walking in fancied, security iii tho-Bulgarian capital. '■•'.;•',' y ■■■'''-■-