Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-21
THE BALKAN SITUATION.

which promise to result in the early
adoption of a new plan for the settle
ment of the Macedonian trouble. A
foreign Office official in London said yes
terday afternoon
at is somewhat premature to say that
definite agreement on the subject has
already been reached, but notes are be-
ing exchanged in this direction"
In other quarters it was estimated
that the scheme was partly on the lines
referred to by the Belgian newspapers,
the Independent Beige, yesterday, which
said it heard that the powers have ar
rived at an understanding regarding the
steps to be taken to suppress the revolt
and apply reforms in Macedonia. Ac-
cording TO this report Russia will act on
the sea, occupying the Dardanelles and
the Bosphorus Austria will act on land
and Italy will exercise surveillance over
Albania.
After peace is restored the powers are
to withdraw and restore to Turkey her
full sovereignty.
There is no doubt that an agreement
of some kind has been reached, as at tie
beginning of the negotiations the powers
started with the general purpose OF CO.
operating, and this harmony has con-
tinued.
While there is a general belief that
the United States will not intervene in
Turkey, interest is displayed in diplomat
ic circles as to whether the authorities
at Washington will order American war
ships to Turkish waters.
The Russian squadron arrived of
Inlada, on the eastern coast of European
Turkey, Wednesday afternoon. Tewfik
Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister,
visited the Russian Ambassador and mott
fed him that the Turkish government
accepted all the Russian demands and
begged that the Russian squadron be
Withdrawn from Turkish waters.
According to the Turkish official re-
ports, the strongest positions of the in
surgeDts are at Krushevo, Merihoro and
Florina Contrary to previous reports,
it is now stated officially that Krushevo
is still occupied by the insurgents.
The headquarters of the revolutionists
are in the Peristeri Mountains, in the
vicinity of Monastir. Women and
children are not molested by the insur-
gents, who have destroyed only fortified
dwellings occupied by the rich Turks.
1t is not denied that they kill all Bull
garians and Greeks found acting as
Turkish spies, but the strictest orders
have been issued not to interfere with
women and children.
Fugitive families from Krushevo who
have arrived at Monastir give terrible
details of the situation which prevailed
in the town of Krushevo after its capture
by the Turks. The latter, they say,
acted like fends, running from house to
house and street 70 street, Strengthening
everybody they met The town is now
a heap of ruins.
The Sofia Post prints strong article,
urging the Bulgarians to prepare for war
Immediately, as delay can benefit only
Turkey. Bulgaria has no need to fear
the great powers, says the paper, as it
would be in their interests to allow
Roumania to interfere in the conflict.
The chief endeavor of the powers would
be to localize the war.
A dispatch from Burgas says the town
of vasliko, 30 miles south of Burgas,
and the villages of Uronkoi and
Pcturnakovo are in flames, and the
sound of cannon can plainly be heard
from the Bulgarian frontier
M. Rail-, the premier and foreign
minister, has communicated to the
representatives Of the papers at Athens
the gist of the reports made by Greek
consuls in Macedonia, in which it is
stated that the Greek Church schools
and 922 houses belonging to Greeks at
Ketchero have been blown up by
dynamite and burned, and that a num-
Der of Greek subjects have been killed.
NJ. Rail- appeals to the powers to termi-
nate the excuses in Macedonia, from
which, he says, the Greeks are greater
sufferers than the Bulgarians and Turks.
NEGRO MURDERER LYNCHED.-A