Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Balkan Insurrection.

The Balkan Instruction.
Constantinople, Aug. 13.-The dis
affection among the Sultan's subjects in
the Balkans. which has its storm centre
in Macedonia, seems TO be spreading,
instead of decreasing. News of renewed
atrocities continue to pour in. One
dispatch received this morning from
Monastir reports that four Greek nota-
bles have been murdered near there,
their bodies being cut up and hung on
trees.
The Greeks of the region, the report
adds have become alarmed and
through the President of their organiza-
ton have sent a request to the Porte
that they be provided with arms, that
they may be in a position to protect
themselves.
The Armenian bishops of Asiatic
Turkey report that the Kurds, the old
time enemy of the Armenians, have
again taken the field against the peace
full inhabitants of the district. They
have armed themselves on the pretense
that they wish to defend themselves
against the revolutionary element, but
their aim in reality is to harrass the
Armenians. They have already pill
LACED two converts, one near Arghania
and another near Erzingen. 1t Is
learned too that the Porte has decided to
take stringent measures 10 suppress
any trouble on the Bulgarian frontier.
Orders have been issued to the second
and third army corps to guard the
frontier most closely. Additional sur
geons have been sent to the frontier as
we'll as $4,000 uniforms, and 300, 600
cartridges.
Constantinople, Aug. 1S.-A despatch
received at one of the embassies this
morning states that eight hundred Mns-
sulmans have been murdered in the
Monastir district by insurgents. Word
was also recei, ed tod y that two Bull
garian villages had been totally destroyed
by Turkish troops.
Twenty-four battalions of redifs have
been called out in Anatolia. The troops
now here, however, are unable to make
distinct heaGway, as the orders given
them from different sources are conflict
ing, and they are at loss to know which
to obey. In addition to this, the troops
are in bad condition, inasmuch as the
commissariat is miserable. The soldiers
have not touched meat in weeks.
1t is learned that the Porte has deter
mined to keep closer watch on the Bull
garian frontier. More stringent order:
have been given TO the second and third
army corps to guard the frontier.
Vienna, Aug. 1S.-A report reached
here this afternoon that a fierce battle
between Turkish troops and insurgent;
had occurred near Monastir. After g
long fight the Turks are reported to have
been worsted, with heavy losses. The
casualties in the ranks of the insurgents
are not given.
The Balkan situation is believed in
official circles here to be most grave.
An indication of this belief is the fact
that the officials remain in close touch
with their offices through the night, that
they may be on hand to decipher dis
patches and inform foreign Minister
Goluchowski instantly should anything
urgent arise.
Little in the matter of details can be
obtained here, inasmuch as no mails are
arriving from Uskub, Salonica, or Mon.
astir. This lack of news has caused
much restlessness among the Servian and
Macedonian residents of the Austrian
capital, as many of them have interests
in the disturbed districts.
Vienna, Aug, 1S.-The Constan'
tinople correspondent of Die Zeit today
reports two massacres by Turkish troops,
He says: Turkish troops after captur.
ing Krusow burned all the building'
end massacred all the inhabitants. An
o,ler force of troops, enranged at the
death of their comrades in derailed
trains. massacred the railway officials al
Ferissowitch and Kuprili, and many oil
the peasants of the neighbOrhood vii
lagos"
Vienna, Aug. 1S.--Bitter feeling has
been aroused among all classes OF
Mohammedans by Russia's humiliating
demands on Turkey. The newspapers
comment on the demands at great length.
The Neuiue Freie Presse says that an
archy is afoot at SalOnica, and that the
Turks there are anxious for war with the
Car. The Tagenlatt prints a rumor that
the Russian feet, which is now en- rout
for Turkish waters, is making for Con
stantinople to protect the Sultan from
the enraged Albanians, and the various
cliques in the palace