THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 979, 27 August 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

DYNAMITE OUTRAGES—2SO PEOPLE KILLED. RUSSIA S DECEPTIVE SCHEME.

By Telegraph—Press Association— I Copyright. , VIENNA, Aug. 25. |( The Nieu Frie Press states iliat I < rhe Government buildings at- Bur- ' gas vilayet, Adrianople, were de- I: stroyed by dynamite, and that 250 people were killed. I LONDON, Aug. 25. The Times declares that the pres- I once of the Russian squadron sec the I vilayets aflame. Russia has no de- I sire for genuine reform. She is not I desirous to precipitate matters, hut I it is her traditional pul icy to allow 1 the States she intends to absorb to I sink into advanced decomposition. I The Powers, adds the Times, must I try a fresh scheme of reform. The Times states that many rifles have been taken across the Bulgarian frontier, and several large bauds I have started for Macedonia. The movement under Sarafoft’s guidance is likely soon to .become more formidable. Tho Daily Mail alleges that the Porte contracted witli a Mauser factory for two hundred thousand rifles and one hundred million cartridges. Military auehorities display great desire for a war with Bulgaria.

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. A TOWN STREWN WITH NAKED DEAD. REIGN OF TERROR. By. Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 25. A massacre of Christians lias occurred at Adrianople.

The City Vali (magistrate) confessed to the Consuls his inability to check the Moslem fanaticism.

One version of the Adrianople massacre is that the Tort fired on insurgents attacking an outpost. A panic followed, and the populace assailed the Christians. Another version is that a Turkish officer tried to; enter a Bulgarian house. The resistance offered excited the Moslem soldiers and Bashi Bazouks who attacked the Bulgarian quarter. Krushevo is strewn with dead,, who have been stripped naked. The people are afraid to bury the 'bodies, lest by doing so the suspicion of the Turks be incurred.

A CHANGE OF OFFICERS. MORE REVOLTING TALES OF. ,- MASSACRE. SLAYING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. HEADS CARRIED ABOUT ON POLES. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 10.31 p.m., Aug. 26. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 26. Ibrahim Pasha supersedes Omcr Pasha as Turkish commander in the disaffected districts. Omcr has been recalled.

There is growing restlessness and excitement in Belgrade} and Sofia owing to the atrocities marking the suppression of the rising in Monastir district, where the Turks have the upper hand. Ninety women and children in one ■building at Kushivo were cut to pieces and thrown into the street. The heads of sixteen 1 merchants were carried on poles at Monastir. While troops were repelling an attack at Tcherkcstpi, between A.drianople and Constantinople, Circassian inhabitants went and massacred the occupants of three Bulgarian villages in the vicinity.