The Balcan Insurrection

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1903, Page 5

THE BALKAN INSURRECTION.

RUSSIA'S NAVAL DISPLAY

ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS

SUGGESTED COMBINED ACTION

VIENNA, 28th August. It is officially announced here that the presence of the Russian squadron, at Iniada, caused Turkey to promise solemnly to punish excesses and introduce reforms. I These the Porte must fulfil.

LONDON, 28th August. The Standard states that Russia has advanced new pretensions, claiming that the Bosphorus is free up to the mouth of the Sea of Marmora. A movement of sympathy, especially in France, is beginning to be aroused on behalf of the Macedonians.
Germany's advice to Turkey to promptly repress the insurrection is interpreted in Paris to mean that Germany would prefer repression to intervention on the part of Austria and Russia.
It is believed that combined measures on a limited scale would be the most humane method of checking further bloodshed.
Opinion in Paris favours an Austro Russian armed demonstration, without the employment of force, as a means of restoring peace.
The corespondent of The Times at Constantinople states that the opinion is gaining ground that international control similar to that regarding Lebanon is I necessary in connection with Macedonia.

PRINCE FERDINAND'S POSITION.

A HINT FROM AUSTRIA.

SOFIA, 28th August. It has been semi-officially hinted to Prince Ferdinand from Vienna that the sooner he returns to Solla the better Austria Vill be pleased.
There are indications that the Prince has been advised to do nothing pending flhe decisions of Count Goluchowsi , Austrian Minister of Foreigh Affairs, and Count Lamsdorff, Russian Foreign Minister.
It is repotted that the police at Sofia discovered under Prince Ferdinand's palace a tunnel thirty yards long, intended for a dynamite outrage
Fears are expiessed for Prince Ferdinand's safety if he returns to Sofia.

MASSIR PASHA'S SUCCESSOR.

THE KRUSHEVO OUTRAGED

CONSTANTINOPLE, 28th August. Massir Pasha has succeeded'' Ibrahini Pasha in supreme command of the Turkish army.
Forty officers and a number of civil officials have been summoned to Constantinople for alleged complicity in the Krushevo outrages.

INSURGENTS IN ADRIANOPLE.

THE TRAIN OUTRAGE.

(Received August 29, 9-a.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, 28th Aug. Turkey estimates the insurgents in the Adrianople district exceed 6000.
The dynamiting by revolutionists of the Budapest-Constantinople railway (rain has aroused intense indignation in Constantinople. It is feared the outrage will lead to reprisals, in which all the Christians will suffer.
The Turkish reserves called out at Salonika prove simply to be uniformed Bashi-Bazouks, who are hourly perpetrating robberies.
Supporters of the Young Turk's party in their ranks have been found instilling revolutionary ideas into the minds of the discontented garrison.

PLAN OF AUTONOMY

MACEDONIAN COMMlTTEE'B PROPOSALS

(Received August 29, 9.22 a.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE 28th Aug. The Macedonian Committee has submitted to the Sultan and Powers a plan of autonomy under European guarantee.
Under the proposals Turkish troop are to garrison at the frontier at intervals Order is to be maintained by local gendarmes, and the militia is to be recruited proportionately from the different nationalities and religions.

Evening Post - 1905

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 68, 22 March, 1905, Page 5

Unrest in the Balkans

Turks and Greeks combining

(Press Association)

(Received March 22, 8.24 a.m.)

Sofia 21 March

Anxiety prevails at Sofia owening to the Turks and Greeks combining against the Bulgarians and Macedonians.

The Fight at Krushevo

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1903, Page 5

THE FIGHT AT KRUSHEVO

REVOLUTIONISTS' LOSSES.



SOFIA, 20th August.
During the recent fight at Krushevo, in Western Macedonia, the revolutionists lost sixty killed and twelve wounded. They then left. The Turkish casualties totalled two hundred and fifty.

News has been received that seventy insurgents fought with Turks a whole day near Kojie, in the Uskub district. Next day Bashi-Bazouks entered the village and slaughtered all the men and women.

Evening Post - 1911

Evening Post, Isssue 73,

23 September 1911,

page 10

THE PROBLEM OF TURKEY

INEXPLICABLE MODE OF ACTION.

"...in Albania by Torgut Pasha is a third. To there might be added the murders of Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks and Serbs, who have been done to death with the old religious fury which ie as prevalent as ever..."

The Magazine of Europe

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1901, Page 4

THE MAGAZINE OF EUROPE.

Again there is news of serious unrest in the Balkans. Bulgaria is the scene of the trouble, Macedonia its cause. The Bulgarian Government, under pressure, it is said, from Russia and Turkey, has arrested the leaders of the Central Macedonian Committee, and the Bulgarian people, who sympathise deeply with the Committee, are in a state of serious ferment. A meeting attended by no less than 10,000 persons has, we aro informed this morning, been held at Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, to protest against the arrests, to condemn Russian interference and to ask European protection against Turkish persecution. The movement is not confined to the capital, for similar meetings have also been held in the provincial towns. The Macedonians share to the full the indignation of the Bulgarians, and do not hesitate to accusrf the Bulgarian Government of shameful treachery. So intense was the excitement that in a cable message received on Monday, the lives of the Bulgarian Ministers were said to have been in danger, while Prince Ferdinand himself had been denounced. These facts point to a situation graver than those temporary crises produced by the periodical waves of unrest which pass over the Balkan States. Behind the excited Bulgarians are sullen Macedonians, eager to throw off the Sultan's rule, and embittered by long years of Turkish oppression. A revolution in Bulgaria, or a rebellion in Macedonia, would probably fire that dangerous riagazine which has long menaced Eastern Europe. The prospect is not made brighter by the rumoured, "unholy alliance" of Russia and Turkey. While there is a Russian party in each of the Balkan States, so there is also an Austrian party or national party, and these patties would become more active than ever if they saw a possible union of Russian and Turkish influences for their suppression.

The internal politics of the Balkan States are too complicated to bo followed with ease or profit, but the chief events leading up to the present crisis and not dificult to trace. Political agitation, oven of the mildest land, is highly imprudent in tho Sultan's dominions. The majority of the Macedonians, and of the people dwelling in tho vilayet of Adrianople the Turkish districts immediately to tho south of Bulgaria have long desired a system of autonomous government. They cannot urge their claims in their own land, except with arms in their hands. Consequently the Macedonian agitation has of lato been conducted by a Central Committee in Sofia. In that committee memorialised the European Powers asking that Macedonia and Adrianople should be granted institutions similar to those set up in Crete. The memorial failed, and then the committee seems to have entered upon a more distinctly revolutionary course. Its violent deds, including even murders perpetrated in Bucharest, brought Bulgaria and Roumania to the verge of war last year. The joint action of Austria and Russia alone prevented strife. The murderers in Roumania were punished, and the Bulgarian Government undertook to proceed against such as were guilty among those residing in Sofia. The sympathy of the people, however, prevented the Government from taking vigorous steps to control the Central Committee. Sundry bands of Bulgarian agitators have been operating across the Turkish frontier and the Turkish Government has retorted by making frequent arrests of Bulgarian subjects. In February a serious encounter took place between Turkish troops and armed Bulgarians near Solonika, and the Sultan soon afterwards ordered a large body of soldiers' to Kostendil, near the Bulgarian frontier. Apparently Russia has lent her support to Turkey, and Prince Ferdinand's. Government has yielded to the joint pressure. Although the Central Macedonian Committee has been guilty of recklessness and even crime, there can lie no doubt about the genuineness of Macedonia's grievances, and unfortunately her only chance of redress seems lio lie in creating such a disturbance in the Balkans that the Powers will be forced to connsider her case.

Evening Post - 1895

Evening Post, Vol. L,

Issue 38, 13 August, 1895, Page 2

The Disturbed South-East of Europe

(Specil - Recived August 13, 10.30 a.m.)

London, 12th August

The Macedonians have sppealed to Mr. Gladstone to assist them to their struggles against Turkish oppression.

Македонците апелираa до г-дин Гледстон да им помогне во нивната борба против турското ропство.

Evening Post - 1903

CABLE NEWS (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH - COPYRIGHT.)

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 61, 9 September 1903, Page 5

THE BALKAN INSURRECTION.

MERCILESS METHODS OF THE TURKS.

RESIDENTS IN TERROR OF MASSACRE.

MACEDONIANS FORCING WAR.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CONSTANTINOPLE, 8th September.

A Consular despatch which has been received from Salonika slates that the insurrection in the Monastir district has been practically stamped out, with sanguinary ruthlessness.

The aim of the Turks is apparently to exterminate, besides Bulgarians and Macedonians, all Christians, of whatever nationality.

The despatch has caused a profound impression in Constantinople and in Bulgaria. Macedonian and Bulgarian residents are in terror of massacre.

Many Europeans' fear the concentration of Asiatic reinforcements in Macedonia and the vilayet (or province) of Adrianople at the end of the month, so as to facilitate hostilities through the merest incident that may occur on the frontier.

The Macedonian Committee in Bulgaria is doing its utmost to force war. It is raising funds, and pressing intimidation bands across tho frontier.

The Roumanian Government has strengthened its military posts iu tho vicinity of Bulgarian post

TURKEY AND BULGARIA.

WAR CONSIDERED IMMINENT.

MOBILISING THE RESERVES.

(Received September 9, 7.29 a.m.)

LONDON, 8th September.

The Monastir correspondent of The Times states that Turkish circles consider that war with Bulgaria is imminent. Hilmi Pasha, Turkish Governor of Macedonia, declares that he sees no other solution.

Steps are being taken to mobilise the muslahfez, or final reserves.

The Daily Mail asserts it is officially estimated that 25,000 well-armed and efficiently-commanded insurgents are in the fielrl.

Macedonians in Evening Post

Macedonians mentioned in Evening Post.