Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-09-08
No. 10

These are nothing less than pror6ssior-
al assassins. The Bashi- -Bazouks.
= who have already been turned loose
upon the Bulgarians, are mere anna
teurs In butchery compared with the
Albanians and Deborahs.
The Sultan Hires Assasslns.
Many of the Albanian and Deborah
assassins have been sent In small
bands. in the disguise of Turkish citi-
gems. throughout all the towns of Mace
donia a->.lq ssre,sEe ready to strike down
in secret any Busssssssi ~ sals9 sc4sssaSl cssa "
being in league with the black flag reg.
iments. Or they will start massacre
at the word or nod OF government
official.
There is no punishment for these
assassins A courtmartial is unknown
here. Being the secret agents OF the
government, they enjoy immunity for
all their crimes The pay they draw
from the bankrupt government is prac-
tically nothing. They take their pay
In loot.
The Bulgarian insurgents are exact
Ing an eye for an eye and tooth for
q tooth wherever they can.
At Neolani a month ago several viii
layers and their wives and daughters
were killed by two Turks living in the
same village. Last Monday so OF
the Bulgarians left for the mountains
to join the rebels. But before start
ing they caught the two Turks and
killed one of them on the spot where
he had wrecked a Bulgarian house
hold. The other Turk, being anuch
the worse OF the two, was talcen 20
the mountains to be tortured before ex.
ecution.
There is simply no end to the feTms
of murder that are going on ewegy-
where. Thirty Bulsarian men arwast-
cd at Resen. on the charge Of he&ng
traitors, were being marched to priaon
at Monastir. They were followed Ny
their weeping wives.
Rolled Stones on oaptivss.
The Turkish soldiers becoming tired
Of their charges and of the issnezsa,.
tions OF the women, halted ths calva-
cade in mountain defile They then
amused themselves with rolling down
huge stones upon the captives, men
and women alike, bowling them over
like nine pins They finished the hor-
rible sport by knocking out the brains
of any who showed signs of life as
they lay among the mass of rocks and
mangled bodies.
Scattered all over this region are
stone towers, used in times of peace
as grain storehouses, like the eleva-
tors in the prairie states in America
These towers have now become places
Of refuge, where Bulgarian families
gather, and where insurgent troops
muster. The towers have been the
scenes of horrors.
At Demie Hissar, a tower whore
eight rebels" and their families were
huddled together, was blown UP by
dynamite bomb hurled by Turk. The
inmates were annihilated Another
tower in the same district was destroy
ed in a similar way.
With Turkish spies everywhere
ready to charge any Bulgarian with
treason, none is safe.
AT Zafari ten were killed lately in
a manner that is a trevesty on justice.
Four hundred armed Turks came to
the village and took up their quarters
in the principal khan or inn. The chief
sent for ten villagers to be brought
before him, among them the khan keep.
er. death warrant was read to
them all. At its conclusion the khan
keeper, as mark Of Turkish esteem,
was shot. The others were stabbed
to death Their homes were thaR Dc.
spoiled
Eleven more Bulgarians were killed
in the same way in Moricoo.
Plots and Counterplots.
Plots and counter plots fill the air
The revolutionists, copying after the
Turkish spy system, are sending their
men in disguise into Monastir, Salon.
ioa and other cities and towns TO start
conspiraoies to assassinate the Turk.
ish officials. They hope In this way
to show the outside woEid that there is
no government, only anarchy here. and
thus induce European powers to step
in, depose the Turks and give the Bull.
garians their freedom. II a general
assassination of Turkish officials
should occur, massacre by outlaws
would follow and Europeans and Amer,
leans would suffer alike.