, 1891-05-16
SERVIA.
VIENNA, April 8.

VIENNA, April 8.
1t was reported a few days ago in The Times
that the Regent Bella Markovitch had taken
upon himself to issue certain orders to the
commander Of the garrison of Belgrade with
out consulting the War Minister. On three
nights the streets were patroIled by cavalry,
the paIaceand the Regents houses were guarded
and other precautions were taken as though an
Instruction were anticipated. Some Radical
members Of the Sluptschina having lodged an
Interpolation as to this mysterious affair, Co.
lionel MiIetitch, the War Minister, Yesterday
demanded of the Regents that the commander
Of the garrison should be dismissed for gross
dereliction Of duty in having acted without
orders from his direct superior. The Regents
have refused the Minister'S application, and
Colonel MIletitch has consequently resigned.
The Skuptschjna has passed Bill which
makes newspaper attacks upon the ex-King
Milan punishable by Imprisonment. The Bill
was voted under some pressure from the Min
istry, and the Assembly evinced it's reluctance
to the measure by listening in silence and with
out interruption to a scathing philippe
against the ex-King, delivered by the DEPUTY
Tagechitch. No father of a |reigning King
was ever so handled before in a Parliament
without a voice being raised in his defence, and
the speech, which is published IN the Parlia-
montary reports, is said to have sent up the cir.
~cuIation of all the papers in the capital NJ.
Tagechitch described the ex-Kin3 as the most
contemplate Sovereign of modern times
and characterized his attacks uyon NJ. Gal-
aschaninc as those of "a vile and unscrunulous
calumniator." He toen earnestly cautioned
the Radical party against putting any trust
in a man "who had kept faith with nobody"
a. C H. I,r.o ~+ot1- 49, L.
was listened to with a deep, sustained and
almost religious attention"
The Seryian Government has grown
nervous as to the possible consequences
Of its tacjt c0nuivance of the Benderef
plot. A communiQu6 has been published
in the Official Journal declaring that there
were never any gatherings ST refugees in
the frontier towns of Prot and Leskovatz,
because, owing to an order of the Home
Minister issued in May, 1890, Bulgarian
refugees are not allowed to reside anywhere
except at Belgrade. Further, says the
communiqu6, there are at present only 30
Bulgarian refugees on Servian soil, and,
lastly, Bendereff has neither 'sojourned
in Servia nor passed through it of late.
The answer to these statements is that
the Ministerial edict of May, 1890, has
never been enforced. Only Il few days
before the murder Of NJ. Beltcheff the
Bulgarian Foreign Minister wrote to
Belgrade TO complain of the massing Of
armed refugees in the Spryian frontier
towns, and NJ. Stambouloff has since open
" declared that the Belgrade Cabinet had
allowed Seryiato become a refuge for Bulga-
rian maIefactoYS, and had also allowed NJ,
Be,tchcf7s murdcrerS to escape. How
many refugees there may be now in the
frontier towns IS another question, but the
contention that there aie only 20 in the
whole of Sarvia is absurd. With regard to
-Brndereff, the Spr>ian Government may
profess to know nothing OF his movements,
but he is proved 10y ample evidence to have
been in Servia, and after his hasty return
to Ronmauia when his plot had collapsed
he publicly talked and Dragged OF the fact.
Times.