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Show MACEDONIAN. INSURGENTS CONTINUE THE REVOLUTION ' ' : : a Sofia, Aug. 11. The insurgents have blown up a bridge sixty yards long, near Giovgyoli, on tho Salonica-Uskub railway. rail-way. - Sofia. Bulgaria, Aug. 11. The premier and minister of the Interior he-ve pfo-eeeded pfo-eeeded to Dubnitza with the Intention of Inspecting the Bulgarian position along the Macedonian frontier. This Is regarded regard-ed as additional proof of the goi-ern-ment's desire to maintain peace. It is now stated that Prince Ferdinand will not return , to Sofia until after his fote day. Aug '15. as he wishes tJ show he is not responsible, for the present situation situ-ation in Macedonia. The representatives of the Macedonian revolgtfonary committee announce that the revolution broke out in fie vilayet of I'skub last Sunday and In the vilayet of Adriaiiople on Monday. ' Telegraphic communication is" interrupted. Adrian-ople Adrian-ople forms the seventh revolutionary district, dis-trict, with Chief Ghfrdjikoff and Captains Ikonomoff and Madjaroff in command. -Accuse the Turks. - Tuc representatives of the committee also publish a contradiction of the report of alleged atrocities committed by Bulgarians, Bul-garians, and accuse tho Turks of attempt ing to poison the mind of Europe, for the i manpacre of Innocent Christians. General Gen-eral Tzconcheff, president of the Macedonian Mace-donian committee, has addressed an appeal ap-peal to his adherents to assist the insurgents insur-gents in Macedonia even by revolutionary means.' Prominent Macedonians have formed a. charitable fund for the purpose of giving relief te the victims of the revolution. Representatives of all political po-litical parties . in Bulgaria have joined the committee and it Is proposed to hold a public meeting to solicit contributions (rga all Bulgarians. Sultan Humbles Himself. St. Petersburg. Aug. 11. The Russian ambassador at Constantinople telegraphs that by command of the sultan, his son, Prince Ahmed F.ffendf, called at the embassy, em-bassy, to express the deep distress and regret re-gret caused in the mind of the sultan by the murder of the Russian consul at Monastir and requested tho ambassador to notify the czar of this second expression expres-sion pf the sultan's sorrow. New Consul Appointed. Constantinople.. Aug. 11. Dr. Mandel-stam. Mandel-stam. acting Russian consul at I'skuh. will replace the murdered consul, M. Rostkovoskl. at Monastir. Monitza. were of quite minor importance. impor-tance. The bridge at Ekisson was only an eleven-foot culvert and was immediately imme-diately repaired, while the damage to the railway store house at Bonitza was confined to the watchman's hut and a number of telegraph poles. The war minister has ordered a searching inquiry in-quiry into the conduct of the commandant com-mandant of Kilkitch. who, it is alleged, connived at the escape of the band of fifty insurgents which recently surrounded sur-rounded the village of Powstalar near Kilkitch. , Dropped Dynamite and Ran. Philliopolis. Bulgaria, Aug. 8. A dynamite dy-namite explosion occurred today which wrecked a number of buildings in the most thickly, populated section of the city. Up to the present, sections of the remains of three persons have been discovered in the ruins. It is said that the explosion was the result of the police surprising a band of Macedonian revolutionists, who in their confusion dropped the bombs. |