BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 90, 26 August 1903, Page 2

BALKAN CRISIS.

PHB PBKB3 ASSOCIATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 24. Ferid Pasha goes to Macedonia to . inspect the Vilayets. j The Forte declares that the insurgents destroyed five villages in the t Kirkilissi district and massacred the inhabitants. Icsurgets captured the village of I Vasaliko and killed the garrison of 50 and about 100 of the inhabitants. r They afterwards burnt two Greek vilj lages. I There are 180,000 troops mobilised 3 in Macedonia, and 24 Asiatic regi- ] ments are awaiting orders to enter Macedonia. Tha Forte has instituted a criminal court at Monaatir, the bench consistj ing of four Turks, two Greeks, and one Albanian. Two captured insurgents and Sara!- < if, one of the ltadtra of the Macedonian Oomuiittee, have escaped to the mountains. j The withdrawal of the Russian fleet ! is partly attributed to the insurgents' ' interpretation that its presence indicated Russian sympathy. The withdrawal disheartened the Bulgarian jy Committees. Moslem irritation towards tin Powe-s is shown by an assault on the Russian pistman in Constantinople and ' an insuit offered to the Italiaii Consul ' at Monaatir, k A OHAPXBK OF HORROBB. Received 25, 10.20 p.m. CoNSTASiisoPia, August 25. : s The tel«grapa line between the Oitjr Q J AJrianople and the Eastern Ms- ■* tricts has been cut and a revolution of the whole vilayet proclaimed. e Same 880 refugees, including the Governor of Imada, a number of R officials, many Moslems and Vasellks, - and 150 Greeks hive arrived at the? '- entrance to the Boaphorus. r Harrowing accounts are given of the a devastation caused by the bands armed ' d with rifles and wearing uniforms. The attack on Imada and other vil« '- lages coincided with the arrival of the (& ' e Russian squadron, d Consular advices state that tht > r Turks destroyed the village of Armenia 6ta", outraging the women and uus't sacring everybody. 6 The guirds conducting 80 Kenushevj revolutionists, bound together, towards Monastir,suddenly slaughtered them. 9 It is reported the turks massacred all the women and children in 22 vile lages in the Fiorha and Monastic '« districts. e Received 12 1.7 a.m. ). St. Pbtebsbubq, August 25. it The Bulgarian gunboat Madyda it took aboard at Odessa a large qmctity o of war material, sailing afterwards for i- an unknown destination.