BULGARIA AND MACEDONIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 89, 11 April 1903, Page 3

BULGARIA AND MACEDONIA.

not ma association. Lisbon, April 7. Advices from Nish sta'-s that many Albanians attacked Okbrida and massacred Christians, The Timet Sofia c» respondent dedared that the Macedonians and Bulgarians of hand. No fore-go influence would av»il to arrest a reThe Albanians are determined to recover their ancient privileges. Hussien Hilmi Basha is cjnvitcjd of (ha efficieccy of reforms, and suspects that Austria and Russia share his conclusions, and oonsider the reforms a make shift to avert immediate international complications. A hundred acd ten villagers, in the . Okhnda have been arrested for harboa>ing revolutionaries. TheDaUy Vail state a that Catholic Albanians at Darexzo revolted owing to Turkish exactions. Savar&l houses * were burned, acd a numb.r of people killed.

A general insnrreotion at £ka*ari is fared.

Hm Saltan Jus reprimanded the Cbmmandant at Mitrovi :i for firing on Mussulman attackers before exhanating pacific means. Som, April 8. The Allwbim Mahommedaos have ■wid the Christian chief's neutrality or a—Vance in miitiog reforms. OouzuTraoru, April 8. >_ The Saltan's Pacification Comaaisrion at Pristtini induced the Albanian leaders to promise to disperse the as■aOanta of Mitropi' n and also maintain law and order. FORXSTALLIN O A BUBSIAN APPOIsTMHrr. " Sibvia, April 9. Prince Ferdinand has appointed General PaprikofF Inspector-General of the Bulgarian Army to counterbalance Biwna'a forcing the temporary appointment, as chief of the staff, of General Dime'rMff, the chi-f kidnapper of Princa Alexander in 1886.