The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-23
ATROCITIES IN MACEDONIA.
The Life OF Christian Rated as Nothin,
by the Arnaut Tribes.
Pail Mall Gazette

The Life OF Christian Rated as Nothing
by the Arnaut Tribes.
Pail Mall Gazette.
After the train had left Uskub and
passed Katschanik as it entered the narrow
and rocky passages which all the year
round serve as places of concealment to
the Arnauts, writes Daily News cores
pondent travelling in Macedonia, the off,
Gals all kept a sharp lookout The train
steamed out of the tunnel of Kats-
chanik when suddenly q dis
charge of rifles was heard. About
ninety feet above the line some seventy
Aranuts were seen, and favored by the slow
speed of the train, fired their repeating
rifles into the windows as we passed. The
stoker of the engine was killed, and three
OF the passengers were dangerously wound
ed. An Arnaut woman had crossed the
line some days before, and had been
knocked down by the engine and killed.
Another train and other people had to paw
for it. Not until got 10 Pristina did un-
derstand what terrible power these hordes
OF uncontrolled men have over the popula-
ton.
The Mushir never dares pronounce SEN
tence against an Arnaut, however guilty he
may be, for he would be signing his own
death warrant. At the same time the
minor officials make common cause with
the armed bands and take share of the
booty. The life of Christian is rated at
nothing. A man walks peaceably through
the street. when the never-falling ball of an
Arnaut strikes him from behind. Nobody
cares for the victim, and the authorities
would never think of seeking the
criminal. All the clans unite when
any action is to be undertaken
against the Giaours. It is impossible to
describe what the Servians and Bulgarians
have to suffer under the tyranny of these
wild tribes. They are absolutely without
protection, for Servia and Bulgaria, though
they are not ignorant of the state of things.
are too weak to call Turkey to account on
this subject, and the powers will not med
die for fear of what the results might be
for all Europe.
A foreign consul in Pristina vouches for
the truth OF the following facts, which
show what the Servan Christian popula-
ton has to suffer at the hands of these saw
ages: Last month the Afnauts suddenly
entered the Servian school of Pristina.
carried off the three masters and the mis-
tress, whom they imprisoned after vioIat-
ing the latter. The Turkish government
thought fit TO close the school for good
after this incident. In neighboring town
the master of the school was also impris-
oned and the school closed. The parents
are thus forced to send their children
n
few days ago forty Arnauts laid siege to
the large farm OF one Mitar Titanic, near
Pristina, wbo with household OF sixteen
men and women all we'll armed, resisted
the attack. When evening came only the
master and his three sons were left. and
they surrendered. The Arnauts fell upon
them and literally cut them to pieces.
Then they threw the corpses into a neigh
boring maize field, where a flock of eagles
and vuitures feed upon them every day.
and can be seen from the town.
l will only mention one more of the hun
dred incidents which form everyday life
here. Two boys. sons of a farmer named
Lasarevitch, at Prisrend, were in the fields
with their fathers cattle week ago. when
an Arnaut caught them, and taking them
home on his horse, attempted to iIl-use
them. The boys struggled Tor liberty and
the Arnaut cut them both to pieces. He
then packed their heads, feet. hands and
trunks in bag, and riding with it mast
the house OF their father, threw it down at
his door. The Turkish government daily
gives assurances of its inability to change
this state of things