CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 190, 25 August 1903, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

BALKAN CRISIS <•■ Per Prees Association, Berlin, August 23. The Kolnische Zsair.ung states that' Russia being eati&fiad with the Pjrte'a j reply, withdraws her j CoXSIANTINi PLB, August 23. J Oocsular advices state th.it Bul-i garian Kimit*j--f>, entering Krusbevo, killed twenty cifbials and two women. The Turks bombarded. the pLce on the 12th and 13th, killing 41 Greek*. On the 14th the Turks enter?d and pilhgnd the town, burnt the Greeks' houses, and outraged the women. They conveyed 100 insurgents to Monastir, where they were released. Twenty-two Christian Tillages in the Krushevo district have been burned and 8000 people rendered homeless and Starving. The Porte is sending relief. Christian advices from Monas'ir declare that the Turks killed 300 local Bulgarians after the pillage of Krushevo and massacred 60 innocent Greeks and Wallachians. WITADIUWAL OF RUSSIAN SQUADRON. TURKISH TROOPS TO AVOID 2XIRSSSS. Receive] 21,10.20 p.m. Bt. Fxtkksbubo, August 30. It !b officially stated here that the Bultan has ordered the immediate fulfilment ef Russia's demands. The Gxar therefore orders the squ-idrou to return to Sebsstopol. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 28. Advices have been received that the. eqoadron has left. The Komitajis defeated a small de- j tachment of Turks guarding a bridge between Kupriedi add Zelemto. They were prepared to dynamite tr-e bridg». At the moment, a train filled wi-h soldiers was crosting, and the driver, suspecting dinger, stopped the train. The Komitajis threw a bomb, killing four soldiers. Advices from Bucharest Msert that tie Bulgarians and Greeks residins in Boumania have been recalled to their homes under mobilisation orders, The Porte has telegraphed strict injunctions to his commanders to avoid excesses, BURNING VILLAQKB. * HSAVT LO3BKB OF INSURGKJITB, Received 25, 0.56 a.m. COXSTANT'SOPXH, Au?U-t 24. the coast villages betwaeo Bulgaria i and Miada have bean burning for three I days. i Fourteen insurgents and 300 Turks '■ were killed in fighting at various parfs of tbe vilayet, The insurgents salute the Russian wawhip3 when passing Kuriburum. It is reported at Silonika that 700 insurgents were killed in the Fiorina and Okiida districts. Vienna, August 24. A&strh interp-ets the withdrawal of the flee 1 ; as a maintenance of the Austro-Ru-a"n understanding.