The Balkans.

Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1903, Page 2

The Balkans.

MASSACRE OF VILLAGERS.

Turkish advices state that the Inhabitants of the Turkish village of Kihali, near .Monastir, have been massacred, with the exception of twenty; Extraordinary reports come from Salonika, to the effect * that the insurrection is spreading eastwards, and that women are participating in the fighting.

The Austrian Consul is threatened,

The English newspapers demand the publication of the British Consular reports.

A MURDERER CONVICTED,

The murderer of M. Rostovsky,the Russian Consul at Monastir, has been sentenced to be hanged. An accomplice who did not interfere .to prevent the crime and a gendarme have been sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. Revolutionary bauds have dynamited a bridge on the Monastir railway.

The Greek Premier, in receiving the foreign Ambassadors, pointed to the necessity of giving Turkey a free hand in dealing with the Balkan troubles, and requesting her to use the utmost severity to restore order.

The Customs authorities at Belgrade have confiscated a quantity of ammunition which was found in cases labelled as hardware and nails. The cases were destine'd for Macedonia. HORRIBLE ATROCITIES REPORTED,

The Ambassadors at Constantinople have demanded that the Porte shall take measures for the protection of the Consuls and foreign subjects at Monastir, owing to the population demanding arms, ostensibly for selfdefence.

Turks and Macedonians mutually accuse each other of massacres. The instances include the massacres of Christians at Kitchevo and of Mos-. lems at KrusbevO, which place the troops afterwards re-occupied. Advices which have been received from Belgrade state that the Turks have been guilty of horrible atrocities in villages near Monastir. They destroyed fourteen- villages in the districts of Uskub and Volezo.

. Bulgaria is presenting a memorial to the Powers enumerating misdeeds on Christiana in villayets on the borders of Bulgaria* and setting out the hopelessness of expecting any good from Turkey’s so-called reforms.