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1 BY BLKCTMO TELEGRAPH—OOPYBI<3P!I!. BALKAN CRISIS- —■—• Per Press Association. Constantinople, August 25. A massacre of Christians occurred at Adrianople. Krushevo is strewn with dead, stripped naked. The people are afraid to bury the bodies lest they incur the Turks' suspicions, ' London, August 25. The Times states that many rifles have crossed the Bulgarian f ion tie;'. Several large binds have started for Macedonia, where the movement uader Saraloff's guidance is likaly to soon become more formidable.
The Daily Mail alleges that the Porte has contracted with the Mau-er Factory for 200.C00 rifles and a hundred million cartridges. Vienna, August 25. The Neue Frie Presse states that Government buildings at Burgas, in the vihyet of Adrianople, were destroyed by dynamite, 250 p3ople being killed. ULTIMATUM TO PKINOE FERDINAND. Received 26, 10.30 p.m. Sofia, August 26. Six prominent Bulgarians have bo9n sent to Hungary to demand that Prince Ferdinand shall make a declaration of his attitude towards Macedonia, and unless he replies within ten days they ore authorised to notify to him that he will be dethroned and his return prohibited. It is not expected that Prince Ferdinand will return.
CHANGING THE TURKISH l CO.. MANDER. i 1 FURTHER ATROCITIE3. I Received 26 10.31 p.m. j Constantinople, August 26. Ibrahim Pasha supercedes Omer Pdsha as Turkish Commander in the dissaffected districts, Omer being recalled. There is growing restlessness and excitement at Belgrade and Sjfia, 'owing to atrocities marking the suppression of the risiog in the Monastir district, where the Turks have the upper hand, 90 women arid children in oce building at Krushevo being cut to pieces and thrown into the street, while the heads of 15 merchants were, carried on poles at Menhir. While tbe troop 3 were rt pelling an attack on Scheakekoi, between Adrianople and Constantinople, the Circassian inhabitants went and massacred the occupants of three Bulgarian vil'ages in the vicinity.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 192, 27 August 1903, Page 3
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