Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-14
BULGARIANS SLAIN.
Sixty Thousand Christians
 Reported Massacred.
BY ORDER OF THE YILDIz KIOSK
Ihe Entire Districts of O<rtda and Leren Said to Have Been Dew
 astated by the Turk ish Troops.

ASTen Sa1U to Have Been DGV@
 astated by the Turk
 ish Troops.
 SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept 14.-Accord- Ing to information brought by a con- Tier, force of Albanians, assisted by Turkish regular forces, acting under orders direct from the Yildiz kiosk, massacred the entire Bulgarian Chris tfan population of the Okrida and Le- ren districts. Terrible descriptions are given of the sights seen there, the sol diers slaughtertng men, women and children in every direction, displaying a barbarism never before witnessed.
 The number of killed is not given in Che courier's dispatches; but according to reports from other sources, the total number of the victims will reach co., poo.
 The Turkish government is believed to have at the present moment no less than 60,000 soldiers in the vilayet of Adrianople, large bodies of them with In ten to fifteen ki1ometers of the Bull garian frontier. Confronted with such a situation, it is argued that Bulgaria would be amply justified in mobilizing the First and Second army divisions, the headquarters of which are in Sofia and Philippopolis and which comprise the forces nearest the Turkish frontier.
 Very little news is Altering through from Monastir, but all reports agree that the position of the Christians is desperate. The Turks are making a clean sweep of the whole Bulgarian element. The Albanian soldiers in the vilayet of Adrianople are stated to be entirely beyond control At KoStursco the influential beys complained to the officers of the excesses committed by the troops. The officers resented the criticism and told the soldiers that the beys were friends of the revolution aries, whereupon the soldiers burned the beys' farms. The Turks have burned the villageN of Almagik and .Erikler, in the distNQct of Losengrad. They beheaded twenty-two Bulgarians at Almagik in the presence of their families Twelve thousand troops are assembled around Malkoternovo and are engaged in piIlaging and burning the villages.
 The population everywhere is fleeing to the forests and mountains All the Turkish population in the district of Losengrad has received arms, and even the boys have revolvers. The Albanian soldiers proceeding from 0drin to Los engrad pIundered the villages en route, robbed the churches and burned the village of Korakej Another body of AIbanians going to Vasiliko, on the Black sea, was attacked by a band and is reported to have suffered loss of 100 men A band led by the insur- gent chief Atamasof was surrounded by Turkish troops at Kokushlxo After six hours of fighting the insurgents cut their way through the soldiers by throwing bombs. The Turks lost twen- ty men. The final arrangements for a revolu- donary outbreak in eastern Macedonia have been completed, but for some in- applicable reason the rising hangs fire. The whole district is divided into six sections, the insurgents being under the following leaders: General Zont- chef. Colonel Yankoff, Captain Jordan Stoyanof and Lieutenants Stoyant- chef, Darvingof and Atamasoff.
 Reports from Beirut say that calm continues there, but trade is at stand still. ReShid Pasha, the dismissed vail, has left for Constantinople The European powers have now abandoned Z their intention of sending war ships to Beirut The Christian refugees en- camped in the mountains refuse to re- turn, in spite of the promise of the au- &horities to protect them. ~
 Tartarschef, the chief Of the revolu- { tionary committee, states that there was a strong probability of Seryia throwing in her lot with Bulgaria against Turkey and that the question of war or no war depended mainly on Bervia. Tartarscheff declined to con- init himself to details, but admitted that negotiations were proceeding be- tween his committee and Servia and also that the Servian premier lately sent scouts to join the revolutionists in Bulgaria in order to report the latter's progress.
 Captain Sarafoff, the brother of the revolutionary chief, has said that it was weeks ago agreed that at the slightest provoeation the Servian forces should invade Old Servia and occupy iUskub. It was hinted that Montenegro would also be heard from in Albania and that Turkey would be compelled to divide her forces, thereby much re- ducing her chances of victory.
 The powers are evidently still exert ing pressure both here and at Constan- tinople to avert Turko-Bulgarian war, apparently with some temporary sue cess, but meantime the increasingly terrible tale of atrocities committed in Macedonia shows that the situation is daily becoming aggravated.
 Cotton Says Peace at Beirut.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-A short cablegram came to the navy depart ment from Admiral Cotton, command ing the American war ships in Turkish waters. It announced that matters were quiet in Beirut and added that