The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-27
MACEDONIA IN
 RR0ES-OE WAR Turkey Has Reached the Utmost
 Limit In Barbarism BIG MASS MEETINGS HELD
Committee Expresses Regret at Slow ness of Powers and Demands Chris tan Governor Who Would
 Ensure Security.

London, August 26.-According to Sofia telegram to the Times, the Turkish repressive measures in Macedonia have reached the utmost limits of barbarian and 1t is evident that 1t is the intention to accomplish by degrees the total extir- patton of the Bulgarian populace.
 Within the last few days, says ths Times correspondent, twelve more Chris. tian villages have been handed over to fire and sword and the women, children and the aged have been massacred indiscrln. inately. Conveys of prisoners despatched to Monastir have been murdered by their escorts on the way. A private letter from a foreign resident in Monastir says even the local Turks are disgusted and medi- tate assassinating the s%1nsuls in order to provoke European intervention.
 Taking Terrible Revenge.
 The insurgents are doubtless taking q terrible revenge and are executing tho revolutionary programme to the letter. The reported concentration of large Turk. ish forces in the Adrianople district al Mustaf- Pashs- Kizylagseh and other points on the Bulgarian frontier. Is re4 garded with much apprehension in Sofia, assit is well k VA that in case of war an invasion wouL. occur from this direction
 In the speclal dispatches from the near east published this morning a gloomy view Is taken of the crisis in the Balkans. According to reports from Constantinople, a rumor was current that war had all ready been declared against Bulgaria. Il was proved to be no other issue Is regarded as possible.
 It Is further stated that although the Russian squadron was withdrawn from India, it continues to cruise near tho Bosphorus.
 It Is reported that several Italians havt ] been murdefsa by Turks at Asmid. . ses3 port in Asla' Minor ha miles sau'hast x 1 Constantinople. = Mass Meetings Held. From Belgrade 1t is announced that bis mass meeting of Macedonians, intend. ed to be held August 23 was postponed te August 30 by order of the government or 1 account of Turkish protests. It Is also stated from Monastir thai the revolutionary committees appeal ing 10 the Christian population to refuse to pay taxes and that their appeal is meeting with much success.
 The insurgents in the Debre district arc said to be destroying the villages and murdering their inhabitants. At a mass meeting In Sofia resolutions were adopted thanking the pubncists whd have defended the cause of the Macedon. ians, regreting the hesitation of the part of Europe to take steps to ameliorate ths lot of the Christians in Turkey, demand ing the appointment of a powerful Chris tian governor, who would ensure security for the country and inviting all Bulgar- ians to aid in securing the triumph of tha work already commenced.
 Seventy Villages Pillaeed.
 The Macedonian committee has issued a black bordered list of seventy villages which have been pilaged and destroyed in the vilayet of Monastir. to which ara added instances of revolting outrages per- petrated on women. The publication of this sheet has created a sensation. No news has been received in official circles today from the interior of Mace dona. The revolutionists at Kischevo arc reported to have six quick-firing guns. In fight which has just occurred in thai district the insurgents defeated and slaughtered an entire detachment of eighty soldiers.
 A Turkish courier carrying 10000 francs intended for the payment of the troops has been captured by the insurgents
 Porte Preparing Answer.
 Charlottesville, lid. August 26.-Gen. Lew Wallace tonight. when asked for statemeTH regarding the Macedonians and whether the United States should take any action in stopping the out breaks and massacres that are shocking the civilized world said.
 There is nothing in the Tukish sltua- ton with which the American govern tt.e being perpetrated by the Turks, 1t is for European powers to act, not us, and this will continue while the old Berlin treaty endures. In the next place the sultan is simply defending the integrity of his empire and he is poor Christian, who would deny him that much. It is not out of memory that we had re- bellion in our country. It is also to be remembered that we put it down, no foreign power interfering
 Gen. Lew Wallace Talks.
 Vienna, August 26.-It is stated that the porte Is preparing an answer to the re- cent Bulgarian memorandum to the pow CTS by a note declaring Bulgaria to be directly responsible for the rising in the vilayet of Adrianople and declaring to be answerable for the consequences.
 There is report that the porte has ordered the authorities of Macedonia to protect the Greeks and that 1t has also authorized the commanders to call for the co-opera tion of the Greek villages against the insurgent leaders. There is also talk of the possibility of a Turco- Greek alliance.
 A dispatch from Uskub reports that the Austrian consul has demanded the pun ishment of the colonel of an Albian reg iment. the men of which fired their rifles inside the town. thus endangering the life of an Austrian subject
 Must Release the Cruiser.
 Newark, N. J.. August 26.-Cortlani T. Parker, Jr., acting United States district attorney for this district, today received instruction from the solicitor