The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-17
TURKISH OUTRAGES
srpJECT OF MEMORANDUM GIVEN
BY BULGARIA. TO POWERS.
MURDER, RAPE AND ARSON
cHARGEs THAT PORTE is cHAL-
LENGED TO DISPROVE.

memorandum Gives MOST FFecASe
Detn.I. of Dates, Places and
vomes-These .Secared from Bull
aortan COnsuIs and Agents-Five
Men and Two Women Tortured to
Meath In ViIayet of SaIOnica-In
Monastir Three Hundred Houses
We're Reduced TO Ruins - At
smerdesch over Two Hundred
BuIEarians Met Death by Bullet,
sword or Fire.
Sofia. Bulgaria, Aug. 16.-The Bull
garian government has presented
memorandum to the Powers, setting out
at great length the condition of af-
fairs during the past three months in
Macedonia since the Turkish govern
ment undertook to inaugurate the
promised reforms.
The most precise details, dates, places
and names of persons are given in the
memorandum, the whole constituting
terrible category of murder torture,
incendiarism, pillage and general OPP
preston committed by Ottoman sol
diers and officials.
These particulars were obtained en-
tirey from official sources, such as the
reports of the Bulgarian consuls and
agents of the Bulgarian government
and in many instances, the reports
made by Turkish authorities.
The Bulgarian government guaran-
tees the absolute truth of every state
ment. and challenges the Porte to dis
prove single charge made in the mem
orandum, which begins by stating that
during the past three months the OF
toman government has taken series
of mea sures with the alleged intention
of inaugurating the era of promised
reform and of assuring peace and
tranquility to the Bulgarian popula-
ton Of European Turkey, but which
have had the contrary effect of fur
Their exasperating this population and
revving the revolutionary movement.
Instead of proceeding solely against
persons guilty of breaches of the pub
lie order, the military and civil au-
thorities have sought every possible
preteXt to prosecute, terrOrize and ruin
the Bulgarian inha bitants, alike in the
large cities and in the small villages.
All Kinds of outrages.
Wholesale massacres, individual muir
ders, the destruction of villages, the
pilaging and setting fire to houses, the
arrests, ill-treatment, tortures, arbit-
rary Imprisonment and Punishment the
closing and disorganizing of churches
and schools, the running of merchants,
the collection of taxes for many years
in advance. such proceeds the memoir
andum, were among the acts of the
Ottoman administration of the vilayets
of Salonica, Monastir, Uskub and Ar
rianC~le. ..
The memorandum next relates in de-
4oi l. ~ Oh,
vilayet. Beginning with the vilayet of
Salonica, it states that in the town of
Salonica itself the Bulgarian profess
sors of the university, the students and
shopkeepers, in fact, all the intel
Hgent Bulgarans in the city, have been
cast into prison.
Seven Tortured to Death.
One hundred and twenty soldiers en-
tered the village of Gorna Ribnitza
May 10 and tortured to death five men
and two women. During the first three
weeks of July, twenty-five villages in
the district of Tikvesch were subject
ed TO the depredations of the Turkish
soldiers and Bashi-Bazouks. The viii
layers were beaten and tortured, the
women violated and the houses plum
dered while the administrative author
tiles looked on.
In the vilayet of Monster, artillery
pombarded and RACED the fiourishing
town of Smerdesch, the 300 houses be-
ing left heap of ruins. At the be-
ginning of July two Greek bands with
the connivance of the authorities, pill
tagged Bulgarian villages and murder
ed many of their inha bitantS.
IN the Vllayet Oh USkuh, the entire
Bulgarian population has been system
aueally prosecuted since last May. The
director of the normal school at Us
Kub was imprisoned because his Ii
uIdry contained the Revolutionary"
works of "Othello" and Les Miser-
ables''
In the districts of Palanka. Kos
chani, koumanovo and Gostigar, the
prisons are filled with Bulgarian
priests, schoolmasters and merchants.
during June the soldiers and Bashi-
bazouks terrorized the inha bitants of
tIe Scht1f district, tOrturing the peo-
PIE with red-hot irons. Similar atroci-
TIES perpetrated in the vilayet of Adri-
anople, are cited
Altogether the memorandum gives
particulars of no less than 131 individ-
ual and general cases of excuses and
outrages committed by the Turkish
authorities.
In summarizing the specific details of
.iIe outrages mentioned the memoran-
uum declares that wholesale massa-
res We're perpetrated by regulars and
SASH Bazouks in the town of Salon
ica and the villages of Baldevo Ban
t.Ha' Tchourilove, Karbinza, Moghila,
Heherdesch and Enidje, while the scene
" carnage, pillage and incendarism
were everywhere terrible.
Hun%'~els Pat to Death.
At Smerdesch over 200 Bulgarians
we're shot, killed with swords or
puIhed to death. over ESQ houses
ana the churches and schools were set
On llre with petroleum and pillaged,
ene property being sold by the soldiers
ana Bashi- Bazouks in neighborng
p,nees. Similar scenes occurred in the
IMAGES of Gorna RibnitZa, Igoumen-
80 Dobrilak and Nikoden. The viii
oNrTS there abandoned their homes
anu ned to the mountains.
over 5000 men, women and children
glu from the Sanjak of Sores and
I'm more from the Sanjak of Kirk
IS difficult, says the memorandum.
OBTAIN the exact number of Bull
o. g. ANS who were imprisoned, mostly
me nlmsiest pretext, as when they
Ire released others were Immediate
affsted. The estimats obtainable
M LOT the yilayet OF Salonca 900
s.6'Aohers; for Uskub, 500; for Monastir.
ta. and for Adrianople $50: a grand
"eu OF $500. As information is lack
avs from many districts In these VIII
DH III Is thought that without eXag-
'"llpn the number of prisoners NAV