New-York tribune., 1903-05-12
ALARM In SALONlCA.
MORE TROUBLE FEARED.
BuIgarians in Hiding-Martiat Lac
I'M the CttU.

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= ff,opvrfght, 1905: By The Tribune Association
SaIonica Nav I1-There is a conspicuous ap-
sence Of Bulgarians from the streets of Salonca
and q conspicuous presence Of foreign hags ny
;rp from, the windows Turkish statistics peins
notoriously untrustworthy. the consuls estiiila'e
the population roughly between Iooooo 'iio
l5aoe0 1t is mainly made up OF jews anu
Greeks. and even the Bulgarian agent docs lio'
Mace the number OF Bulgarians above o'ovo' '0
estimate probably being too high py i'"'V u
ooOo The Levantine correspondents Oh tue
French and German journals have sent ou'
absurd reports that 5000 Bulgarians have been
slain. The Turkish officials have sought 10
minimize the losses. but consul now estimates
,ba ,,u,,her of deaths at over 100 or 40, al
though more than one gave credence TO the eA-
agrerated figures of the earliest dispatches.
Only ffty-fve Bulgarian deaths are positively
known.
1t is generally acknowledged that the TURK
ish authorities deserve unlimited credit 1or
keeping in hand their undisciplined troops ana
the enormous anti-Bulgarian population mere
1 am informed that one battalion or Albanian
troops was IN the city on the second DAY OF the
outbreak and grew mutinous, the men TALKING
freely among themselves about killing the Bull
garians and raiding and plundering the town.
The officers learning what was astir. contrived
To have the mems ammunition belts secretly
removed and the entire force carried off from
the Bulgarian frontier the next morning. The
success OF the Vail in preventing a general raid
of the gypsies and bashibaZouks shows that the
Turks can forestal massacres when they choose
A consul who witnessed scenes Of the Armenian
atrocities assures me that no massacre will take
place in Macedonia without order from the
Sultan.
The Bulgarian panic is appalling. Bulgarians
are afraid TO show their faces outside their own
houses, and how they get food enough to con-
trive TO exist is mystery The authorities re-
port that four hundred are in prison. but the
number may be seven hundred. I attempted TO
visit an ancient prison in the walls back of the
town After being searched from head to foot
I passed the main gate, but stopped at the
jailers office where caught a glimpse through
the bars of the inner gate of a hldeous mass
of suffering humanity huddled together Hos
pitfalls are filled to overlooking, wounded Turks
naturally being treated and cared for in pref
erence to others. Women are in despair not
knowing whether their men are dead or alive.
No list of names of patients is available for the
relief of anxious inquirers, and only gruff dis
nissals are received at the doors of prisons
and hospitals when questions asked for the
missing Many of these are probably starving.
huddled in cellars and barns. One night a Bull
garian burst into the home of small family
and could not be driven from his place of refuge.
The terrified family abandoned the home and
found shelter at the American mission, with a
number of other refugees.
Martial law has been proclaimed, and prison.
ers will be tried by court martial without delay.
Austrian and Italian ships can land $500 ma
rines any moment. 1t has been amazing
that with the bitter feuds among the popu-
lation and the fanatieism of the Asatic troops
Lra,I I1-o,,
mon impression in the city is that all is not yet
over