THE BALKANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 981, 29 August 1903, Page 2

THE BALKANS.

REVOLUTIONISTS DYNAMITE A TRAIN.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) LONDON, Aug. 27. The revolutionists- dynamited the Buda Pestli-Constantinople train, south of Adrianople, killing seven and injuring eighteen people. ASSASSINATION OF AMERICAN VICE-CONSUL. DESIGNS ON FERDINAND’S LIFE

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 11.8 p.m., Aug. 28. Washington, Aug. 28. William Magelssen, American viceConsul at- Beirout, while driving in a carriage was assassinated. America demands the immediate arrest and fullest punishment of the guilty, and punishment of the authorities if guilty of dereliction of duty. Tho American European squadron proceeds to tho Levant unless tbo demands are satisfied. The authorities at Washington intend to go the same length as Russia, and claim an indemnity for Magelsseu’B family equal to the indemnity Russia insisted on for Rostovsky’s widow accepting, Sofia, Aug. 28. It has been semi-ofiicially hinted to Ferdinand by Vienna that the sooner he returns to Sofia the better Austria will be ploased. There are indications that he has been advised to do nothing pending Goluchowski’s and Lamsdorff's decisions.

It is reported that the police at Sofia discovered under Ferdinand’s palace a tunnel thirty yards long intended for a dynamite outrage. Fears are expressed for Ferdinand’s safety if he returns to Sofia. Constantinople, Aug. 28. Massir Pasha has succeeded Ibrahim Pasha in supreme command of tho Turkish army. Forty olficors and a number of Civil officials have been summonded to Constantinople for alleged complicity in the Krushevo outrages.

THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. FRENCH SYMPATHY FOR MACEDONIANS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12.10 a.m., Aug. 29 Constantinople, Aug. 28. Three Europeans and two Turkish women and a child were among thoso killed in the train. The authorities aro convinced that tho dynamite was secreted among the train provisions, secreted at Sofia. The outrage is universally considered an act of folly. London, Aug. 28. A movement of sympathy, especially in France, is beginning to be aroused on bobalf of tho Macedonians. Germany’s advice to Turkey to promptly repress the insurrection is interpreted in Paris that Germany would prefer repression to Austrian and Russian intervention. Combined measures on a limited scale would be the most humane method of checking further bloodshed. Opinions in) Paris favor an Austro-Russian armed demonstration without tho employment of force os a means of restoring peace.