Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-10-30

A. SAYS the suItan's soldier O. sas-
pIcIou. of Hi. shadow and WIN
Not Fight Nea-Hand.omestw omen
Carried on-The Rest, With the
Children aud Old Persons, Are
slaughtered.
Sent as special envoy TO create SYM
pathy for the insurgents In the Bal |
kans. Dr. s. ]. Shoomkof OF the Mace
DOMAIN benevolent committee OF Sofia, |
who recently arrived at New York ON
the Deutschland from Southampton,
has gone TO confer with the president
of the University of Pennsylvania ON
the methods OF raising funds and Great
ing interest in the distress OF his peo-
pie. says the New York Press.
DIR. Shoomkoff is a graduate Of the
department of philosophy OF the Uni
verslty Of Pennsylvania and Is also
graduate Of Chicago university. In all
he spent fifteen years In the two uni.
versities. Then he returned TO his
home in Salonika TO join the uprising
now in progress.
"The extent of the horror Of Turkish
warfare" he said, cannot be con-
ceived in this country.
"The Turks will not fight the men.
but they go into Isolated villages when
the men are away with the insurgent
bands, lay waste whole villages. carry
the handsomest women into the harems
of the generals and murder the rest,
together with all Of the Christian chill
dren. Then the towns are burned to
the ground.
Americans cannot conceive Of this
kind Of warfare. But all Europe knows
it. The sickening stencil Of the muir
ders arises from the plains of Mace
donia to the nostrils Of all civilized
Europe But they will do nothing
They are used to the stencil. And our
blood runs in torrents, but NO one
cares"
1--WE have waited for twenty i've
years since the treaty Of Berlin for the
Inauguration Of the reforms and for
the establishment Of the home rule
that were promised by it. Instead
we have been made the slaves Of the
Turk-disfran chised In every court,
our women taken ruthlessly from our
homes our goods and our lives placed
absolutely at the mercy Of those who
are merciful only when they kill.
ask the American people If they could
have stood this for twenty-five yearsf
Bulgaria is filled with the few wo.
men and children who escaped, and In
our hiding places we have In bands OF
100, 200, 500, men who feed Oh what
they can find, who sleep on the ground
carry no camp baggage, excepting theil
rifles and hand bombs filled with dyna
: mite.
i Scouts are stationed all through the
country. We have every patriot in the
country who lives in the larger towns
under tax according to his ability t
I pay. This fund supplies US with arms
and ammunition.
To-day in Macedonia the Turk II
: suspicious of his shadow. He gOe'
: abroad only in midday and in force
;. and not to fight, but to murder the wo
men and children in some little village
that has been left unprotected through
). operations carried on at distance
The actions of the Turkish soldiery ii
J such attacks are those Of incarnat
fiends. From the time the attack be
!. gins until the last woman and child
dead and the village in flames the sol
- diers are uncontrolled by anything ex
cept their fury. Their officers coul
y not restrain them II they would. Dit
u cipline Is unknown. The soldiers ar
,, without pay and find it as they 80.
~ 1T may seem strange to say we ar
- not trying to form a government i
. Macedonia. But such Is the fact. Gu
~ warfare Is conducted simply with
view to force Bulgaria to fight Turke!
Her people are doing 1t with food n
cruits, arms and funds, but her go,
eminent has stood like the rest Of til
powers and looked alphabetically on {
the tragedies without lifting tinge
officially to aid us.
1.-THE real organizer of the revolutio
is Dr. Tatarcheff. For his activity
organizing the men of Macedonia
was exiled at one time, but when
SeCuIeu eIlOuRu kucu LIE TetuTutu Ill
headed them himself. His little ban
was the nucleus of the present insu
gent force. Today he directs ever.
thing in connection with the Sofia con
mittee, the benevolent Macedonia con
mittee, composed of Professors Geo
geff, Militich, Agoura, Radoff an
karayovoff.
81 expect to present myself for aud
ence with President Roosevelt 500
and then l will have a chance to be
for the aid we need for our refuge,
now in Bulgaria. There are Thousand
of them there. The winter is coming O
and they have nothing to live upo
The Turks have stripped them of e
erything. If aid does not reach the
they will starve to death. But the
ed would do it contentedly If they kne
as the fighting men had plenty Of amm
INF milton.
~ hope to get some of the publ
he spirited men in this country to orga
en- lie committees to raise funds for O,
,at people. do not wish to touch tt
nv money. I would be more than glad
they would appoint a committee
Oh carry the funds across and distribu
itb Them to the needy and see for then
M selves the extremity to which the ne
raj lect Of the great civilized powers {
of Europe has reduced my country an
countrymanD