THE BALKANS.
AN ALARMING STATE OF AF-
FAIRS
BASIII-BAZOUKS PILLAGING AND. DESTROYING.
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. SOFIA, August 68. .Uskub advices state that six hundred Bashi-Bazouks, under a notoriously cruel Albanian chief, the Turkish authorities conniving, pillaged and destroyed the Christian village of Debra, in Okrieda district. Two divisions of Bulgarian reserves have been sjummoned to strengthen the frontier forces against • the passage of revolutionary bands.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. IS., The Sultan has summoned fiftytwo fresh battalions of troops in European provinces, owing to the spread of the insurrection.
The British Ambassador lias .warned the Porte, in view, of the excitement among Moslems in Monastic district, of the disastrous consequences if. further atuacks on the Consuls .or foreign subjects are madCi-
Albanians who were recently dismissed from the Sultan’s .bodyguard are fit coming a source of danger in Constantinople. About the date of Rostovsky.’s murder, Mr McGregor, British ViceConsul at, Monastir, noticing that a policeman guarding the police station neglected to salute, summoned the captain, who tried to excuse his subordinate. Mr McGregor compelled the captain to take the policeman’s rifle and give the salutp. BUCHAREST, August 18. Roumania is actively, manufacturing smokeless powder. Received 10 p.m., Aug. 19. LONDON, Aug. 19.
Turkish advices state that Macedonians are intent upon embittering, Mahommedans, with a view to provoking wholesale massacres and securing European intervention. The Porte has warned the military and provincial authorities accordingly.
SEVERE FIGHTING
TWO, HUNDRED AND TEN DEAD AND WOUNDED.
REPORTED MASSACRE OF 800 MOSLEMS.
By .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 10.33 p.m., Aug. 19. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 19. There has been severe fighting in Monastir district.
Three battalions attacked 1 1000 insurgents. / . ’
After six hours’ fighting they were -repulsed, leaving 210 -dead and .wounded. Advices received at one of the Embassies state that insurgents in the vicinity of Monastir massacred 800 Moslems. The railway bridge at Exschessoa has been dynamited, interrupting, communication between Salonika and Monastir.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 973, 20 August 1903, Page 2
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