BALKAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 209, 30 September 1903, Page 3

BALKAN CRISIS.

BULGARIA HEMMED-IN. m PRESS ASSOOIATIOV. Constantinople, September 25. Documents purloined from H'.lmi Pasha's arch'vs show thit 63 Christian villages were destroyed in the Monsstir district and 150 in four other vilayets,

London, September 28 The Daily Mail's Moms'i? co:res pondent says that Tu<key has displayed wonderful skill, suggesting western military ai -1 . She hvi drawn an iron cordon of 300,000 troops round Bulgaria; 170,000 are m sstd in the Silo nika district; 50,000 in Monastir; 70,000, with 300 guns, in Adiianople; REWARD FOR MASSACRES. A PLAUSIBLE ASSURANCE. Recsived 29 11.35 p.m Constantinople, Spemner 29. Bikhstia* P mha, who was concer> ed with Aditm Ag*, of th« Bishib rauk", in the b >mbardmati wifhou"; warning, and in the me-sacrt-s at Krushevo, h s been decorated and transferred to Eastoria. Tne Porte Ins a-sured B tha' th? 32 bat.ul<on* ordered eo m Adrianople will remain at Mocnstir, Sofia, September 29. After the Requium service at Sofia for the Macedonian deed, a procession

numbering 15,000 at od s lent for a

moment oirside the British Agent's f raaiJene*, and subo* queu'ly sect a deputation to M. Petroff to ask whether or no< Bulgaria woald help Macedonia. M. Petroff replied that he, as Premier, would con'iaue to act in Bulgaria's best; interests. ALL OAPIURED 81/LGARIANS TO BE SHOT. Received 31, 1.3 a.m. London, S ptembtr 29. The Times says that at the instance of Izzet Pasha, who is largely responsible for the Aimenian miseacrts, and who is now at Constantinople, ths Sultan has ordered th.it in future all Bulgarians captured with or without arms must be shot.