The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-07-27
TURKISH CRUELTIES.
Massacre of Unarmed Villagers---25.0 0O
Killed in Gold Blood---Outrages
Upon Women.

THE Pera correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: 1t is needless to say
that the representatives of the foreign
powers, and especially the French Am
n;lssador, are far from satisfied that
Justice has been done. The eleven
wretches who suffered capital punish
ment at Salunica were common male
factors, obnoxious to the Turkish popu
lace, and scarcely worth The rope with
which they were hanged, and Of the
real instigators of the murder not one
has been brought to trial, the govern
ment not daring to rouse the fury which
would be kindled among the Mohamme-
dams, should it be known that only one
drop of precious Mussulman blood Las
been spilled to atone for the blood of
the two Christian victims. In Bulgaria,
on the contrary, the wholesale ~execu-
ton of men supposed to have been impli-
Gated in the abortive surrection is incess-
ant. Twelve of these wretches were hang
ed inTatar Bazardik on the Goth. Two OF
them were priests. With respect to
the horrors of that once hourishing pro-
vince has been and is still the theater, L
beg to subjoin letter, written by Il man
on whose impartiality, and even loyal
attachment to the Ottoman Government,
L have every reason to rely. [ think it
| is of the highest importance that the
facts should be strictly inquired into and
made manifest throughout all civilized
| countries:
AS general rule the officers and sol
diers of the regular army have behaved
very well. Chevket Pasha is the most
striking exception. The governors OF
many of the towns have not only done
WELL but i'll some cases have acted heroic
ally. The government here has prob
ably not ordered any general massacre
of unarmed villagers, but it is directly
responsible for these outrages, because
it has known of them and made no effort
to stop them, because it has ordered the
| disarming of the whole Bulgarian popu-
lation, and then armed the Circassians
and Bashi Bazouks and turned them
loose upon these helpless towns. What
has been done by the savages! l. More
than 100 Bulgarian towns have been ut
terly destroyed, although no pretext of
revolutionary movements existed in re-
gard to more than five OF six of these.
A province formely bringing in a reve-
nue. of 81 900, 900 to the government has
been devastated. The names of these
towns and all the particulars can be fur
nished to any one who wishes to see
them.
.. At least %, ZOO unarmed and in
offensive people have been massacred in
cold blood. According to the turkish
papers Of Constantinople, at least 40, 00C.
B. More than 1000 Bulgarian children
have been taken and sold as slaves.
They have been sold publicly in the
streets of AdrianOple and Philipopolis.
4. Horrible fortunes of every descrip-
ton have been inflicted on thousands OF
those not murdered.
5. The outrages upon women have
been more general and more brutal than
in any case [ ever read of. These out
RACES are more terrible because Bulgar-
ian women have higher ideas Of virtue
and chastity than those of any other na-
tionahty in the east. Ii women of Eng
land could know the facts such cry
of indignation would go up as would
rouse all Europe to action.
6. At least TO-, 900 Bulgarians are now
in prison, and are undergoing tortures,
many of them such as have not been
known in Europe since the middle ages,
and which was formerly declared to be
abolished i'll Turkey by the Sultan Abdul
Medjid.
Z. Many thousand refugees are crow
ded in the larger towns, where they suf-
fr1 al kinds OF abuse from the Turkish
population, and are starving to death
because the Bulgarians are not allowed
to help them.