BALKAN CRISIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 880, 2 May 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

MILITARY TRAIN DYNAMITED,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi Constantinople, April 30.

Russia has warned M. MashkofT, Consul at Uskub, that Cenoral Murtrevieff, of the Bulgarian Army Reserve, arid seven others entered Macedonia, intending to kill him and his colleagues, owing to his support to the Servian cause at Uskub in accordance with Russian instructions.

A Turkish military train near Saloniea has been dynamited, and the engino and carriages damaged. Ibrahim, murderer of M. Stcherbina, is the chief witness against the greengroeor who instigated him to commit the crime. PANIC AT SALON ICA.

WRECKING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS TWO PEOPLE KILLED BY BOMBS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Rccoivcd 10.15 p.m., May 1. Constantinople, May 1. Bands of revolutionists caused a panic at Salonica. Tboy destroyed tho Ottoman bank. The bombs thrown killed two persons. Throo arrests have boon made. Attempts to destroy tho cafes, post-office, and other public buildings failed. Two thousand troops restored order. Tho Czar has asked the Sultan to commute Abrutim’s sentence to ponal servitude for liiu.

ANNIHILATION OF BAND OF BULGARIANS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.58 p.m., May 1. Constantinople, May 4. A Bulgarian baud, numbering one hundred, were annihilated at Djumuibola. Eighteen others wero killed and captured at Ladovovsvrokop.