The Balkans

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 June 1913, Page 5

The Balkans

A MCRDER CONFESSED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ' Constantinople, Jtaie 15. Lieutenant Hilmi, who was shot while attempting to effect an arrest in connection with the assassinatioa fflf Shevket Pasha, has succumbed. Samuel Effendi declares thai Topal Tewfik confessed himself the principil assassin, adding that his bullets killed Shevket. AMONG THE ARRESTED. Constantinople, June 15. Those arrested as implicated, in the assassination of Shevket Pasha include Danish Bey, ex-Minister of the Interior, Hamid Effendi, President of the Court of Justice, Hera Ismail and Hakki Pasha, Opposition leader. BRITISHER'S DOMICILE VIOLATED. Constantinople, June 15. Reuter reports that the British Minister protested to the Porte against the violation of a Britisher's domicile at Pera, and describes it as an infraction of treaties, inasmuch as the assistance of the Consulate was not obtained. ' -THE XEWrBULGARIAN CABINET. v A LETTER TO.TH£ CZAR. ■ ;'"''■. ' " ' ~;' ' *'*'''''Sc-fia, June 10. " r M. Daneff has formed a Cabinet, with himself as Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. iladiaroff Minister of the Interior, General Kovatehoff Minister for War. King Ferdinand's reply accepting the Czar's arbitration blames Servia for the attempt to evade it, and reminds the Czar of Russia's recognition in years 'past of Bulgaria's incontestable.duties towards -Macedonia, the population of which is anxious to remain Bulgarian at all costs.

A GREEK LOAN. Athens, June 15. ■ The Government has concluded a loan of twenty million francs from the National Bank of Greece. CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS. St. Petersburg, June 15. The four Balkan Premiers have been . invited to St. Petersburg at the earliest opportunity. FURTHER ARRESTS MADE Constantinople, June 15. Munib Bey and Kaimil Gasha's son have been arrested. A FRIENDLY COMPLIMENT. Received 17, 12.30 a.m. . London, June 16. The Nordeutsche welcomes the Czar's - initiative in arbitration, which is > -strengthened by the Powers' collective '' demobilisation counsels to the Porte ---and the Balkan Allies.'

' SUBTLE DIPLOMACY. Vienna, June IG. With reference to Russia's invitation ' to tke Balkan Premiers, the independent ( and Opposition newspapers sharply attack M. Berchtold for permitting what they describe as the establishment, of a ' Bussian protectorate. Fears are expressed'that the new map of the Balkans has 1 been drafted in St. Petersburg without consulting Austria-Hungary.