The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12
$50 KILLED.
Bulgarian RevOlntiOnists Suffer
Severe Loss.
The InsurrectiOnary Movement
Continues to Grow.
FIGHTING is GENERAL.
Massacre, Incendiarism and Pill
lage on All Sides.
Insurgents Capture Big Lot of
Turkish Supplies.

Constantinople, Aug. Zone hundred
and fifty revolutionists were killed in
the fighting at Sorovitch August 9, ac-
cording to official Turkish reports. The
same dispatches which have been COM
municated to the Russian and Austrian
embassies, state that the insurrectionary
movement is increasing daily. Hilmi
Pasha, inspector general of the sultan's
Macedonian reforms, reports that the
young men in all the Bulgarian villages
are fleeing to the mountains to join the
insurgent bands. Many among the Bull
garian peasantry wished to remain neu-
trail but were compelled by threat to
help the revolutionary committees.
Hussein Hilmi Pasha, who has been ap-
pointed Vail of Monastir, reports a sim
liar spread of the insurrectionary move
ment in the villayet of Salonica, where,
he says, the committees are resolved on
the same campaign of massacre, incen-
diarism and pillage as in the villayet of
Monastir.
kilograms received this morning from
Monastir announce that the town of
Kurshevo is still occupied by the in
surgents. Four thousand Turkish
troops with artillery surround the town
and are preparing to attack, and, if
possible, retake the position. Fighting
with the rebels is in progress in the dis
trict of Dibra, where it appears that the
Albanians are attacking Bulgarian viii
lages. The insurgents continue TO dew
astate the district of Koritza and have
captured important Turkish supplies of
provisions. More or less severe fighting
is reported in the districts of Kastoria
and Florina. Three hundred insurgents
are assembled on the heights between
GievgVeh and Yenije Twenty-six Mus
Sulnan nP3SanfS have hoer1 in,
the village of Zivernini near Perlepe
by the Insurgents. Stringent military
precautions have been taken in the town
of Uskub to prevent threatened dyna-
mite outrages.
Salonica, Aug. 12.-Dr MandeIstam.
the acting Russian consul at Uskub who
has been appointed to succeed NJ. ROst-
kovsxi. the murdered consul. at Monas-
tir, reached that town today. Some
anxiety has been felt for his safety as
nothing had been heard of him since he
left his post at Uskub, a couple of days
ago. The Mutesarif of the Uskub dis
trict refused to give DR.. Mandelstam an
escort The consul insisted on proceed
ing to his new post and having obtain
ed an escort from Hilmi Pasha, he
started on his own responsibility across
country for Monastir.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 12.-The Bull
garian foreign office has received very
disquieting news from it's agent at
Uskub. The Mussulmans there are
daily gathering in the mosques and it is
feared that massacre of the Christians
is impending.
Officials here express the belief that
the Intervention of the powers alone can
prevent a disaster
The most astonishing feature of the
situation here is the remarkable quiet
ude with which the people have re-
ceiVed the news of the fresh uprising
in Macedonia. The whole outbreak came
as a great surprise, even to the local
revolutionary committees which were
not prepared for so early rising. In
spite of the stirring appeals of the COM
mittees little or no popular enthusiasm
is apparent not even among the 10000
Macedonian residents of Sofia.
How long this condition will last de-
pends largely on the developments in
Macedonia. At present the center of
the disturbances is Monastir a long
way off. Should the rising spread to
the villayet of Uskub and come near
to the Bulgarian frontier, it is prob
able that the population of Bulgaria
will become aroused