The Balkan States.
MassifPaaha ha a succeeded Ibrahim Pasha in supreme command of the Turhish Army. Forty officers and a number have been summoned Wj Constantinople for alleged complicity in the Kitchevo outrages. It is officially announced that the presence of the squadron at Imada has caused Turkey to promise solemnly to punish excesses, introduce reforms, and that the Porte must fulfil the same.
Three Europeans, two Turkish women, and a child were among the killed in the train outrage. The authorities are convinced that the dynamite was secreted among the train provisions. At Sofia the outrage is universally considered as an act of folly. A movement of sympathy —especially in France—is beginning to be aroused on behalf of the Macedonians. Germany’s advice to Turkey to properly repress the insurrection is intrepreted in Paris that Germany many would 'refer to Austrian or Russian intervention. It is believed that combined measures on a limited scale are -the most human method of checking further bloodshed. The opinion in Paris favours an Austro-Rusaian armed demonstration without the employment of force as a means of restoring peace. HOURLY ROBBERIES. Turkey estimates the insurgents in the Adrianople district exceed 6000.
The train outrage has aroused intense indignation in Constantinople, and it is feared it will lead to reprisals in which all Christians will suffer. The Turkish reserves called out at Salonika prove simple to-be uniformed Bashi-Bazoubs. The Bashi-Bazouks are perpetrating hourly robberies. Supporters of the young Turks party in their ranks are found to be instilling revolutionary ideas into the minds of the discontented garrison troops. REFORM COMMITTEE’S PROPOSALS. The Macedonian Committee has submitted to the Sultan and the Powers a plan of autonomy under European guarantees. Under it Turkish troops are to garrison, the frontier at intervals, and order is to be maintained by local gendarmes, while the militia is to be recruited proportionately from nationalities and religionj^
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Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1903, Page 2
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314The Balkan States. Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1903, Page 2
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