BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 184, 18 August 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

RUSSIA'S DBSfANCS. BULGABII WARNED. SQUADRON SB NT. FATAL BOUB EXPLOSION. FU WUCSS ASSOCIATION, Received 18,1.'2 a.m. Constantinople, August 17. ! Count Lamado.-ff, on the 11th ins l :., intimated that the Sudan's regrets and the Forte's promises were inadequate' He insisted on the punishment, not only of Hjlim, but of <hi military and civil authorities guilty of the atrocities denounced by the Russian and Austrian Consuls and tha release of the peasants, the victims of ihe atrocities reported by them; also the renewed employment of foreign officers of the gendarmerie and pilica. Count Lamsdorffon the 12th warned Bulgaria that these demaads would not modify the p-evious programme, and that it would be a dangerous error to interpret the demands as fostering the Macedonian Committee's agitation, as the Committee's conticuxl criminal activity was a hindrance to the pacific introduction of reforms. He painted out that Russian Consular reports showed the peaceful Christian population at the hands cf the revolu'ionaries as much as from the outrages by the Turks, hence the necessity for the most rigorous oounteractijnon the part of Bu'garia. This note has lessened Austria's anxiety. Orders for the despatch of a squadron are interpreted as a step in support of Bussia's deminds. Received 18,1.42 a.m. CONSTASTINCPLE, August 17. The Porte professes to interpret the approaching Russian squadron as a Tint connected vtith naval manoeuvres, aimilar to that of 1902. The Consuls at Monastir are being specially protected. Halim's ex-ution has incensed the lower ordes. Ro3tovsky's successor acted an public prosecutor at the Courtmartial, aid sigced the sentences. A bomb exploded in a military train at Feiez)vitch, -killing three and wounding four. IMPORTATION Or ARMS. TURKEY'S ORLIER FOR ARTILLERY. BULGARIAN INDICTMENT AGAINST TURKEY. Received 18, 1 8 a.m. COHSTAKTINOPLE, August 17.' The Forte denies arming the population of tbe TJ-kub district. Immense quantities of rifles and ammunition from Odessa are arriving at Rus'chuk, and are being forwarded to Philippolis. Turkey has ordered from Krupp's foundry 32 batteries of q-iick firing fisld artillery of six guns fach. There were 100 insurgents killed in the fighting near Penleps. In connection with Halims' trial, the ohief of the Gendarmerie has beeu dismissed for trusting important posts to Albanians unable to sp?ak Turkish. Received 18, 1.36 a.m. Sofia, August 17. A Bulgarian note to the Powers accuses Turkeys of closicg churches and schools, terrorising and ruining the peasantry, tha population, torturing the innocent, and collecting taxes for years in advance. It enumerates acts of iojustice, torture, and violation, giving the nam-rs of the victims and the localities, and seating that 4000 were still in gaol, while the persecutions had driven 6000 into Bulgaria. Io considers the Porta should recognise the cause of the insurrection is bad adminis'ration, not conspiracy on the part of Bulgaria. M. Petroff, in the couree of an interview, said that the attitude of the Bui garians was absolutely correct, their frontier being carefully guarded and the rising being pur. ly internal and na'ional, and the work tf an internal committee of insurgents, whese arms were mos'ly French, being sold by Turkish officers whose piy was in arrears. He believed the outbreak would bs confined to the Monastir dis trict and easily suppressed.