The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-10
AWFUL SLAUGHTER
ALLEGED MASSACRE or e5,OOO MEN,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Inhabitants of 40 villages I'm Mace
donia Reported to Have Been
Killed by the Turks.
TORCH APPLIED AFTERWARD
GREAT STRETCH OF COUNTRY LAID
WASTE BY THE SOLDIERS.
Memorandum Prepared by the Mace
donian Organization for Presen-
tation to the Powers.
ADMIRAL CoTToN'S REPORT
NO SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AT BEL
IaUT SINCE LAST SUNDAY.
European Advfees, However, Say the
Situation In CriticaI-Marines
Ready to Land.
Memorandum Prepared by the Mace
donian Organization for Presen-
tation to the Powers.
ADMIRAL CoTTON'S REPORT
NO SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AT BEL
RUT SINCE LAST SUNDAY.
European Advfees, However, Say the
situation Ii CriticaI-Marines
Ready to Land.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. s.-The Mace
orandum to be presented to the representa-
tives of the powers, in which they will de-
clare that the insurgents intend to resort to
reprisals for the Turkish atrocities. The
memorandum gives detailed information of
villages destroyed and the massacre Of
their inhabitants. 1t declares that 5000
men. women and children have been slaugh-
tered and 10 villages burned In the list Of
villages given only two are in the vilayet
of AdrianopIe. The others are principally
in the Monastir vilayet.
The memorandum repeats the statements
recently issued by the insurgent general
stafr at Monastir that the Turks. instead
of fighting the insurgents. have instituted a
general massacre of the Christians. The
organizations declare they are issuing the
longer able TO restrain the bands from re-
taliation, and henceforward the RESPONSE
bility will rest with the great powers.
which. instead OF attempting TO moderate
the Turkish barbarities. are calling on the
Turks speedily to end the revolution.
The Dnovnik says the eonsuls at Salonica
have requested their ambassadors to send
warships to thar port. as they are in fear
of dynamite outrages.
A banauef six hundred revolutionaries en-
gagged the Turkish troops between Melnik
and Demirhissar. The Turks are reported
10 have lost heavily.
The Turkish authorities in the Adrianople
Silayet have ordered the destruction of mills
and granaries- Thousands of women and
children in the district are hiding in the
mountains and starving.
LONDON, Sept. 10.-A dispatch to the
Times from Monastir, dated Sept. 3, says
q railway journey from Ssiolica to Mon
astir gives a slight idea of the devastation
OF the country The Christian popula ton
seems TO have entirely disappeared. The
crops are lying deserted. and the railway
stations and villages along the line are
swarming with, armed Turks, few of whom
could be described regulars. The signs
OF insurgent victories are a few burned
biockhouses. The Turkish victories are in
dicated by the number of villages deserted
and burned and the number of fires still
burning over all the neighboring hills. Vast
columns Of smoke are seen in the direction
OF Nevesla.
The Monastir correspondent of the Daily
Mail sends an account of the sickening
sights he witnessed in the hospitals there.
The victims Of Turkish brutality were most
~ Greeks and Wallachians Many women
and children had wounds from Mauser bull
lets. pyoving that they had been inflicted
by regular troops, inasmuch as the bashi-
bazouks are armed with Martins The
stories told by the victims tended to prove
the worst accusations against the Turkish
troops Oh orutaiues anu Hdssacres-