New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-08
PRESSURE on BULGARIA.
THE COUNTRY7S DILEMMA.
Both Po5Ccrs and Rebels -4ctiUe-
Fighting Still Goes On.

Sofa Sept. In official quarters there is a
.,,spiciols absence OF news from the interior OF
Macedonia and also from Adrisnople. and IL is
..s-ss that the conditions there are steadily
,scor,inr worse. The Macedonian organizations
srs straining every nerve 20 force Bulgaria
into q val Large and small bands are crossing
me frontier OF Northern Macedonia. where Cen
srsl zontchefr and Colonel Jankor are organic
ing the fnsurgent movement. which is expected
% t-esk out in the valley OF the struna before
ne end ~ me week
The Macedonian committees are prosecuting
g, active campaign 10 raise funds in Bulgaria.
Tbev are addressing letters 10 all who are able
n contribute 90 the cause. The applications
,.sysr,, do not refer 20 the revolutionary move
,-ert but ask aid for the starving and homeless
.,gftfves from Macedonia When wealthy citi-
-ers decline 10 subscribe the organizations do
No, hesitate 20 make strong representations. A
-,ch merchant 81 Philippopols was recently
.,,s .ls- unless Ne contributed 5000 his house
would be blown up.
Severn fights are reported from the district
~ IosenE~ad. A. the bashibazoJLk ks village OF
sssars. the Turks lost twenty men At Tersi-
se-e hand fought three hundred soldiers all
Az win the result that the Turks had thirty
ss,er men killed. while the insurgents lost five
4, pr-sr1n. in tho clSrida district. lighting has
frrr
srs 81, army Of twenty thousand Turks. The
--,-',s are reported to have lost over two hun
s-sd killed OF wounded. Another engagement
Icing ali Iav has been fought at Pribilisu
,-,--etf~ V.ra-et in which the Turkish loss
WAS given a. forty and the insurgent loss as Eve
A hand led by Yauko Stoyanoff has destroyed
.--. .rrre OF Gorino Kadievo. near Losengrac.
notorious haunt of Turkish brigands.
The rev.sraper "Poshta'' asserts that all the
VILLAGES I'm the district az Leren are burning
According To revolutionary estimates, Turkey
las now in Macedonia an army u $4,000 men,
with 3 7ea horses and $40 guns.
In an engagement al simon. Losengrad the
Villagers Joined the Turks. who were defeated.
The insurgents afterward burned the village as
a punishment TO the inhabitants for aiding the
Turks
The rebels have destroyed the lighthouse near
LmauuuleNo.
The sofia .VedonostT' states that Rumania is
strengthening her military position on the Bull
garian frontier.
Word was received az the revolutionary head
quarters this morning that the Turks have
burned or otherwise destroyed nearly all the
villages in the district OF Kastoria, near the
Greek frontier The villages I'm that district were
the largest in Macedonia. each having from one
thousand To three thousand inhabitants. Among
the largest burned were Zacoritchani' Dumoeni
Konomladi Mokren; and Kosinetz Altogether
about twenty-five villages in that part OF Mace
donia have been destroyed
Three hundred women and children. fugluNes
nom zagorftohanL went 10 the Turkish COM
,osraer ~ the district 10 seek assistance ana
rro,ectior FROM the bashibazouks. The COM
rlander promised protection. but when the fugi-
tives departed tho bashhazouks pursued them
and outraged and killed many Of the women and
CHILDREN
Tho Turks have concentrated eighteen thou
sand soldiers Boz the Kastoria district, who are
openly burning villages.