The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-02
SARAFOFF AND THE MACEDONIANS I
adapted from the German of Heinrich Renne Die Woche
Berlin.l

cry freedom Liberty or dea" with
which for their slogan the Macedonian insurgents struggling today
against the might of Turkey" Swoboda iii
tongue and enced by wreath of oak leaves they upon the
flags the patriot bands The defiant upon
the letters and which the Macedonian committee sends
snls empty warning Daily bloody
fcts from the Bulgarian boundaries the north the Aegean
the south from the wales of Tessa the the Black Sea
and the Dadanees the the wild slopes
ing and villages the cry up Railroad trains
blown pecesdyname used upon the banks in Saonca up
offices, Zbedscle-everywere
forward with the cry Liberty DEATH Nor cry the
Balkans There other parts OF the Ottoman empire has ung
before and with wacwod than ensaved people
have through bloody strife Turkish
So has led the Bosnans and the Herzegovnian the Bugan and
the Cns to victory the Greeks and the Macedonans
sworn conquer o die.
insurgents use,
the destructveness OF dynamite which wrecked Hungarian
vessel not employed in the earlier uprngs the Bal
kans The insurgents of those days used less improved and
e the turks through the commission OF atrocities to STAN their
Today the insurgents and Turks stand alike in their barbar
and every day brings villages given the torch OF whole
communities slaughtered together 1t is impossible to hold people
that struggling for its liberty responsible for each outbreak
but expression could condemn strongly the attempts OF the in
sugens upon the railroads They have utterly failed their purpose
making the transportation troops impossible and have injured only
the innocent But still less there expression strong enough
which the Albanian bah
bazooks OF the sublime porte have committed in Monar and the
march into Adranope.
strange which Albanian element is playing in the
Macedonian uprising At first seemed that the Abanans would
IIsb %oon from Anaoia to eskTb Dakoyo and pek This was
the commission troops remained in Sand alter
where the Turks dared not follow Here thew awaited ibr events
Serva and Macedonia readiness time quickly ah the
field against Turkey In the porte dared not withdraw its
troops from kossovo although could we'll have used them in the dis
trct of Monas their Turks had what
the Abnans who better than other people Turkey
knew how to guard their independence.
The Macedonian committee however may regard its
tendencies has accomplished wonders has all dangers
Sofia passed through its ocaed dissolution and steaday held its
aim view When of the leaders forced disappear for Bull
garan OF there the front
and huendi as in Dubntza M2nash in Forna and Vodena
among other places the work OF the forward
hrda and Saona wherever Bulgarian ssaes and other ag
tators labor for the freedom OF Macedonia.
In the mountains and the forests which the Turks dread there
OF and ammunition also manufactures of bomb
shells which, give good witness that there experienced soldiers
with the insurgents But the soul OF all Boris Sarao Only 80
DID, he has the elasticity Of YOUTH the fiery enthusiasm OF the
patriot struggling for liberty and the sagaciy and persistence
of the Bulgarian losing sight his goal Often he has been
Times beyond number the Turks have thought they have
ed killed him Yet like phoenix from the ashes Saraof has
to life again Already the insurgents hail him Boris First King OF
Macedonia And yet he fall in battle, what would
teri Another would step into his place for be he general
Macedonian there who well the free
1t impossible from the Turkish or from the Bulgarian dispatches
to form idea of the present situation of the rebellion better Of
the One reckon with the reports which for
thing the places given today their Turkish
their Greek Bulgarian The confusion great but
that Macedonia disturbance And there lies greatest
danger which increases the insurgents the terrible struggle
for freedom into the vayet of Rumi that say Adranope and
also along the road from Saonca toward Deeagatch place the
Aegean COAST They have fear and they will their ug
gle though Turkey urs against them all the forces her
1t happens that have some personal experience these disturb
ed regns of the earth took the Bosnian nsu
and the Hegovan Instruction OF 1882 have passed
time the Albanian and been condemned death by the
Turks In such long learns something and when
ders all the dispatches of the nsucons
powers and the gains interesting view into the field OF
diplomacy There which would beay and which
first learned being bound word of honor and
today find myself the situation nearly years ago At
that time urged the Bosnian insurgents continue the struggle
through the winter movement which hats temporarily dead
There continuously be of fighting The did not
we'll comprehend they wanted winter quarters and would have begun
the day. But the and
through the winter kept the Turks in ceaseless
general appointed which, high up