The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-16
A TALE OF HORROR.
Thirty Thousand Christians Are
Butchered by the Turks.
TIE vILAYET OF M0NAsTIR

TIE VILAYET OF M0NASTIR
Is One Vast Charnel House OF Decay
ing CorpseS. Wax Between
Bulgaria and Turkey Sure
to Come.
4 dispatch from London says every
thing seems to point to new and ter
rible developments iu Macedonia. On
top of the appalling accounts of the
results of the Turkish methods OF
restoring order in the vilayeJ OF
MonaSt:r comes a threat by the i1SUr-
gents to resort to repriSaiS on the
same scale. The Porte'S anxiety to
suppress news by expelling newspaper
correspondents from the area Of the
operations is held to have but one
meaning. Tuesday mornings papers
comment upon she significance OF the
news, first published By the Associa-
ted Press, that Russia and Austria are
seeking to persuade the powers to
coerce Bulgaria as showing I belief
that war is inevitable.
No further news regarding the out
break at Beirut has been received
here. A dispatch TO the STANDARD
from Constantinople dated Sunday,
says: The Turks are much disturb
ed by the presence Of the American
warships at Beirut, and are making
every effort to have them recalled. lu
spite of all assertions that the United
States only intends them to be there
for the simple protection OF the rights
of her citizens it is quite possible
that the despatch of the warShipS may
initiate action leading much further" "
RESULT IN LEBANON FEARED.
The same correspondent. telegraph
ing under Mondays date, on receipt
OF the news Of the Beirut outbreak
says:
with the slightest encouragement
disorders might result in the whole OF
the Lebanon rising in revolt. Tues
day has been foretold as the date of
the arising against the foreigners and
many residents of Constantinople are
keeping 70 their houses. Personally
I doubt whether there will be any
thing more than dynamite outrages
which are pretty sure to be attempted
before long
The Daily Telegraph's correspon-
dent at St. Petersburg says he is as
sured on excellent authority that Rus
sia, when she submits proposals to
the Porte for the paci6cation of Mace
donia contemplates the dispatch OF
her Black sea squadron to Turkish
waters, where it win make much
longer stay than recently in order to
overcome the Sultan's objections to
her recommendations.
The Sofia correspondent OF the
Morning Leader, says by the end Of
the week she insurgents will have re-
ceived a large accession Of weapons.
Thirty thousand rifles are being SNUG
gled to them from all sides, and when
these have been received, the real
fighting will begin.
TURKS EXTERMINATING.
A dispatch from sofia, Bulgaria.
says all reports from the vilaVet of
Monastir agree in describing the Sit
uavion as apalling. Between 10000
and 1000 Bulgarian inhabitants are
believed 10 have been massacred by
the Turks and every Bulgarian village
in the yilayet has been destroyed.
The refugees in the mountains and
forests are dying Of starvation by
thousands. at present it is lmpossl-
bic to obtain precise hgure,.
The revolutionary headquarters
estimate that thirty thousand Bull
garian men, women and children have
been killed, while at least the same
number of refugees are slowly perish
ing Of hunger. In official circles these
figures are regarded as an under-eSti-
mate and officials incline to the belief
that The number Of the massacred ex-
ceeds $4,000. The Turks are appar-
emily determined to exterminate the
entire Bulgarian population OF the
silayet
In government circles here the
situation is viewed with increasing
alarm. 1t is reliably reported that
the Turkish forces in Macedonia num-
Der 800, 900. 1t is considered impos-
sible that such force has been as.
sembled merely to crush the rebel-iGn.
1t is feared that the sultan is meditat-
ing an attack on Bulgaria.
THOUSANDS BUTCHERBD.
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