BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 197, 2 September 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

REVOLUTIONISTS T>X THiilß UAPIIViS3. TIB PBEBB ASSOCIATION. London, August 31. Austria is demanding satisfaction for » party of Albanians firing a fusilade igainSt the Consulate at (Jskub. The Porte explains that they were recrttits, who fired a Volley in the air, aßd that none oi the shots struck the btftlcKng. Paeis, August 31. The newspaper Le Temps severely cri'ioises Germany for overlooking the promised reforms, and urgir g Turkey to make reprisals on the Macedonians. Constantinople, August 31. Revolutionists after c»p f uring Neveeka, ee'zed 'he arms and ammunition and levied JJIOOO contribution from thf inhabitants, then withdrew to the mountains. Troops arriving fired 30 shells, and receiving uo respons°, entered the town. The Forte's explanation of the Beyrout incident is that a wedding party was firing a feu de pie. The shots were not directed against Mr Msgelisin. STRENGTH OF THE INSURGfifffg, AMNESTY OTRKKD IF INSURRECTION ENDKD. SERVIAN BAN*)S CROSS THE FRONTIER. \ THE fcULTAN'B MESSAGE TO REBEL* Received 1,11.17 p.m. Constantinople, September 1. The insurgants claim that 2000 insurgants left Bulgaria during the past ten dxys, and that there are from 12,000 to 15.000 under arms in Macedonia and Adrianople. Helmi Pa«ha has sent five Christians and five Turks to offer the insurgentsan amnesty provided their arms are surrendered, and the insurrection ended before the festival of the Sultan's coronation. Sorvian bands under Dragonier Brotovi'.ich, formerly director of a school at Salonika, are now crossing the frontier, . Some 200 well-armed volunteers, with 40 officers, have left Belgrade for Macedonia. Prince Ferdinand, aboard the gunboat Nadejda, has left Kusteriji for Bulgas. The insurgents have received ad views from Constantinople to the effect that the Sultan, owing to Germany's influence has changed his attitude and now favours wir.