Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-01
BALKAN SITUATION GRAVE.

The news from the Balkans is causing
uneasiness in European capitals. The
situation is considered TO be grayer than
few weeks ago. Two particularly
significant reports were received in
Vienna yesterday. The first, that the
Gar had presented TO the Prince of
Montenegro eight batteries of quick
firing small caliber guns with ammuni-
ton, and the second that Russia has ad-
dressed another warning message to
Bulgaria. In bis autograph letter to the
Prince of Montenegro, the Car writes
that the gift is intended as proof of
Russia's friendship for Montenegro, in
whose independence all the Slay peoples
are deeply interested. The Cars gift
recalls his recent present to Servia OF
| 10. 900, 900 cartridges. With regard to
Russia's message to Bulgaria, it is said
to have been inspired by the unfavor-
able reports received from the Russian
consuls in Macedonia regarding the at
titude of the Christian population to-
ward the Turks, and is as an explana-
ton of the recall Of the Danef ministry.
A dispatch from Sofia says that the
Macedonian committee announces that a
revolutionary band of thirty-one men
and the inhabitants Of the village OF
Abalitche, near Istib, have been mas
sacred by Bashi-bazouks. The band, it
is added, was surrounded in the village,
artillery was brought up, and after ten
hours fighting the village was complete
" razed and burned, and all the inhab-
itants, without distinction, were massa-
cred. The Turkish losses are reported
to have been even greater than those OF
the other side.
The bridge of the Turkish Oriental
Railroad between Adrianople and Mus
tapha Pacha was blown up by an infer
nal machine early yesterday. The orient
express had crossed the bridge half an
hour earlier, and it is believed the per-
pretrators of the outrage intended to
wreck the train.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the Russian consul confirms the report
that a plot to destroy the Turkish mill
tary depots at Istib, Macedonia, with
dynamite was recently discovered,
and saws the railroad and telegraph
/ lines have been cut, and that Bull
garian officers are joining the insurgent
bands. The inhabitants are COM
PEELED by threats to support the insur-
gents, supply them with money and pro-
visions, and take up arms. The consul,
however, considers that the movement Ii
artificial and not really approved by the
bulk of the population, and adds that the
revolutionary committees are doing theli
utmost to incite the Macedonians to en-
gage in a general humiliation OF the
Christmas, with the object of securing
the Intervention of the great powers.
1t is stated on good authority that after
two hours fighting the Turkish troop;
repulsed the Albanian attack or
Mitroyilsa. The Albanians lost heavily.
Turkey has sent a division of troops
from the vilayet of Adm, Asia Minor,
to Albania. The Russian Ambassador
at Constantinople has been instructed to
instruct the Porte against the insubordi-
nation of the Albanians. According tc
adyices from Mitrovitsa, a town IN
European Turkey on the River lbar, in
the province Of Prishtina, bands o.
Albanians have surrounded that town
and are demanding the removal of the
Russian consul