THE BALKANS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10704, 27 August 1912, Page 5

THE BALKANS

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(Ufliufl ~p*m« Aiuiociation — By TSUotiic Telegraph—Copyright.)

EXCITEMENT IN SERVIA

MASSACRE LT TURKS

(Received August 26, 10 a.m.)

BELGRADE, August 25

Turks attacked and massacred many Servians at Dipitza. There is great excitement in Servia. Cabinet has discussed the situation and presented a report to the King .

TURKISH CABINET.

(Received August 26, 10 a.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 23

Aiid Hanish has now accepte dthe portfolio of Minister of the Interior, and a Senator, Halim, that of Minister of Justice. AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER. (Received August 26, 10 a.m.) BUCHAREST August 23. Groat importance is attached to the arrival, as the King's guests at Sinai, of Count Berchtold (Austrian Foreign. Minister) and his wife.

ALBANIANS OCCUPY A TOWN. (Received August 26, 10 a.m.) ATHENS, August 25. The Albanians have occupied Berat and are marching on Avlona.

INTENSE 'SITUATION.

NATIONALIST ASPIRATIONS INCREASED.

(Received This Morning 12.20 o'clock.) LONDON, August 28.

Renter's Constantinople correspondent states that owing to continued agitation in Bulgaria over the Kochana, Prince Ferdinand remains in Sofia. M. Gueshoff, the Prime Minister, has abandoned his visit to Vichy. ■ In some diplomatic circles it is considered that Count Berchtold's proposal was inopportune, and calculated to increase Macedonian nationalist aspirations. The Porte is apparently resolved not to admit any of the Powers' suggestions tending to decentralisation. AUTONOMY FOR MACEDONIA,

URGED BY POLITICIANS. j \Received This Morning 12.20' o'clock.) LONDON, August 26. ' Tho Times' Sofia correspondent states that crowded meetings of Macedonian, delegates and Bulgarian politicians of all shades urged the Government to demand from Turkey and tho great Powers autonomy for Mace- b donia. | CALLING TOR WAR. ! HUNDREDS KILLED. TERRIBLE ATROCITIES. (Received This' Morning 12.20 o'clock.) BELGRADE, August 26. Five thousand citizens met and denounced the Sienitza massacre. Forming a, procession they ma relied to the front of tho Palace, urging war with Turkey. The Moslem inhabitants of Sienitza seized tbe arsenal and took out arms, and attacked the Christians.

M. Ilia Bopovitch, Prefect at Berana, i who was- an educated Serb, was assassinated in front of the Courts of Justice at Sienitza. The situation is still worse at Bebpoleli where hundreds were killed.

The Turks, furious against the Montenegriang are apparently revenging themselves.

Serb refugees are, bringing into Servia terrible stories of Turkish, atrocities.