The Ottoman Empire.

Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1903, Page 2

The Ottoman Empire.

INSURGENTS AND SOLDIERS IN CONFLICT.

Komitajis defeated a small detachment of Turks guarding a bridge between Kupriedi and Zeleniko. They were prepared to dynamite the bridge at the moment the train filled with soldiers was crossing.

The driver, suspecting, stropped the train.

• Komitajis threw a bomb, killing four soldiers. Advices from : Bucharest assert that the Bulgarians and Greeks residing at Tloumania have been recalled to their homes under mobilisation orders.

The Porte telegraphed strict injunction to commanders to avoid excesses.

The coast villages between Bulgario and Iniada have been burning for three days. Fourteen insurgents and 800 Turks were killed fighting in various parts of the vilayet of Adrianople. The insurgents saluted the Russian warships passing Kuri Burum. It is reported in Salonika that 700 insurgents were killed in the Florma and Okrida districts. Austria interprets the withdrawal of the fleet as a maintenance of the Austro-Russian understanding MASSACRE OF INHABITANTS. Ferid Pasha goes to Macedonia to inspect the vilayets. The Port declares that the insurgents have destroyed five villages in the Kirkilissi district and have massacred the inhabitants.

The insurgents captured the village of Vasaliko and killed the garrison of fifty and about one hundred inhabitants. They afterwards burnt two Greek villages near India.

One hundred aad eighty thousand troops are mobilised in Macedonia. The Port has instituted a criminal court consisting of four Turks, two Greeks, and one Albanian. Two captured insurgents and Saraloff, one of the leaders of tbe Macedonian Committee, have escaped to the mountains.

BULGARIANS DISHEARTENED.

The withdrawal of the Russian fleet is partly attributed to the insurgents’ interpretation of their being an indication of Rusasian sympathy Their withdrawal has disheartened the Bulgarian Committee. Moslem irritaiion towards the Powers is shown by the assault on a Russian postman at Constantinople and an insult which was offered to the Italian Consul at the Monastir.