The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-27
cRErn AND marEDoNIA.
Women and Girls Publicly Outraged in
 the Streets by Turks.

the streets by Turks.
 Berlin, July 26.-Count Goluchowski, Austrian minister of foreign affairs, re- turned to Ischl for the purpose of hold ing an interview with Emperor ram cis Joseph after having had confer
 ence with Prince Hohenlohe, the Ger
 man chancellor, at the latter's chateau
 at Alt-Aussee, and reached Vienna on Thursday. On the day of his return to Vienna Count Goluchowski had an in- terview with Count Nigra, the Italian ambassador to Austria, and since then Count Nigra has been summoned to Rome by the Marquis Visconti-Venos- ta, the Italian minister of foreign af- fairs. These comings and goings of
 to any other cause than the gravity of the situation in the east. A concert of
 the powers has failed to effect any good
 results, and the events which are now taking place completely overwhem dip-
 lomacy.
 According to telegraphic advices re-
 ceived here yesterday the rising of the insurgents in Macedonia has become
 extremely formidable. Greece, while pretending to take stringent measures
 against any persons engaging in raid | upon the Macedonian frontier, has al- lowed upwards of six hundred men, all of them armed with Lebel rifles, to en- ter Macedonia from Greek territory. These men, after surprising and cut ting to pieces the Turkish troops at Moussa, succeeded In repulsing strong force of Turkish soldiers which had been sent from Salonica to reinforce the Moussa troops.
 A dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung | says the Rediffs reserves who have been called out under an aride from the sultan are showing a disposition to revolt in consequence of the fact that their pay is very much in arrears and | the rations which are being issued to them are very bad in quality and very small in quantity
 A special dispatch received by the Neue Frei Presse from Salonica on | Thursday says that the statements made by the Turkish officials concern ing the situation are all calculated to | conceal the desperate condition of af- | fairs in Macedonia Hard fighting is going on almost every day at Drum nitza, Serres and all points in the Per- | I'm mountains.
 The Turkish reserves at PreShtima
 and elsewhere in that section are being
 sent to the front as rapidly as possible and it is estimated that the total num- Der of Turkish troops concentrated on | the Macedonian and Bulgarian from
 uers exceeds 1000 men. Evan force, however, has not been found | sufficient to make any headway against | the insurrection, which under the infiu- ence of the successes already achieved | by the insurgents in the field is becom- 1 ing stronger every day.
 | Stimulated by these and similar re- 1 ports semi-official newspaper organs l like the North German Gazette and | the Cologne Gazette are taking more l definite tone in their articles comment
 Ing upon the gravity of the situation. |, The Month German Gazette reproduces 1 an article from the Cologne Gazette
 which declares that unless the pow | CIS ttllSllSIS III dA GlltI tISSl1Cs way lH-
 stead of submitting proposals to the
 porte the troubles in Crete and Mace
 donia will never end.
 The Reichsbote (conservative) pub
 fishes letter written by German
 lady living at Monastir wherein the writer narrates atrocities which are practiced there every day without the slightest attempt at interference on the
 part of the authorities. The lady de-
 tails the Turks outraging Macedonian
 women and girls publicly in the streets
 before the eyes of their husbands and | parents. This letter has stirred up a
 strong feeling of public indignation | here, more in fact than the remoter
 massacres and outrages in Armenia.
 The Reichsbote appeals to the powers | to cease their jealousies and interfere
 in behalf of the Macedonians and | Cretans in the interests of humanity. | The Bismarckian organs, on the other
 hand, are strongly opposed to any pol icy of interference on the part of Ger many. The Neue Nachrichten declares
 that If the insurgents in Crete and
 Macedonia continue their efforts to
 throw off the Turkish yoke they must
 suffer the consequences.