THE ALDANIAN RISING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 321, 7 June 1911, Page 5

THE ALDANIAN RISING.

AUTONOMY PROCLAIMED. By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Cettinge, June 5. The Miridites, the most powerful of the Albanian tribes, having command ol 10,000 armed men, have proclaimed the autonomy of Albania and a provisional Government has been appointed. Oroshi, thirty miles south-west of Scutari, has been established as the capital. The Miridites are all Catholics, and live in an almost inaccessible mountain district. The Turks are hastily collecting reinforcements. SUCCESS OF THE MOUNTAINEERS. TURKISH REINFORCEMENTS SENT. Received 0, 11 p.m. Cettinge, June C. The Miridites have captured the old citadel at Alession. Pasha hhevket Turgut has despatched three battalions with six guns to the citadel at Alessio. The Miridites attacked the troops at Zadrima, between Scutari and Alessio,

BURNING AND MURDERING. THOUSANDS DESTITUTE. TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. Received 7, 1 a.m. London, June 6. An Englishman travelling in Albania writes to the Morning Post stating that the Turks are burning houses in the Skreli and Kostrati districts wholesale. Aged and infirm peasants have been incinerated. Eight insurgents, hearing the woundeds' mad shrieks for help, descended a hill at Kostrati to rescue them. The artillery turned their guns on them, six being killed. Two women and children were incinerated. Being Moslems, they did not consider it necessary to fly. They were mistaken by the Turks for Christians. The correspondent adds that there are many thousands of destitute women and children in the Podgoritga district. TROUBLE IN MACEDONIA. Constantinople, June 5. A quantity of dynamite and apparatus for manufacturing bombs has been discovered in the Koepmolue district, near the railway on the Sultan's route to Macedonia. The Procurator-General at Monastir has been murdered. The assassins are '- unknown. , '. < ; THE PROCURATOR'S MURDER. Received 6, 11 p.m. Constantinople, June 6. The Procurator-General murdered at Monastir had been instructed on Saturday to prosecute the proprietor of a newspaper belonging to the Extreme which had been violently assailing the non-Turkish communities, Macedonia and all the Balkan States. The murderer is a Moslem fanatic.