Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-11
MACEDONIA SPEAKS.
europe Must Intervene to
 Remedy Evils.
WANT 4 CHRISTIAN GOVERNOR.

The RevOlutionfsts Under Their Leader, Boris SarafOff, Have Re-
 solved to Fight the Matter
 Out to the Bitter End.
 SOFIA, Aug. 1.-The delegates of the Macedonian committee have ad. dressed the following appeal, to each of the powers:
 '"The Mussulmans' systematic perse- cut1on has compelled the Christians in Macedonia and the vilayet of Adrian. ople to institute a general rising. They have had recourse to this extreme measure after exhausting all pacific means to secure the intervention of Europe to enforce the provisions of the Berlin treaty. At the present moment this intervention is the only means of remedying the evil and stopping blood shed, the sporadic efforts of the pow CTS to secure reforms having failed. They resulted merely in a reerudes- cence of Turkish fanaticism and gov ernment oppression.
 Ut is evident that reform measures to be efficacious must include the ap- pointment of Christian governor gen. eral of Macedonia, some one who has never held office under the porte and who must be independent of the Turk ish government in the exercise of his functions, and the further appoint ment by the powers of a joint, perma- nent administrative board, with full powers to deal with any disturbances.
 Having published the foregoing facts to the civilized world and made known the causes which have driven the Macedonians to despair, the com mittee for the Macedonians now in arms proposes to continue the fight till the object of their uprising has been attained" ..
 The number of insurgents in the dis nict of Monastir is 5000. They are armed with rifles purchased in Greece. Six hundred insurgents have destroyed three detachments of Turkish troops numbering altogether 100 and attacked the town of Kitchevo. but failed to oc- cupy it. The insurgents, however, de- stroyed the Turkish village of Drou- govo, whose inhabitants had come to the assistance of the garrison of Kit chevo. It is reported that three Chris tian villages - Smilevo, Krouche and Bolno-near Monastir have been com pletely destroyed by the Turkish troops.
 The Macedonian insurgents are con- centrating between Prilip and Dibra for the purpose of intercepting Turkish re-enforcements from Old Servia.
 It is stated that there has been an exchange of views between the powers regarding the situation in Macedonia and that apparently the powers have decided to support Austria and Russia in efforts to re-establish peace. Re- ports received from Italian consuls in the Balkans predicted the present re- vival of the insurrect1on, which the consuls considered to be almost entire ly the work of Boris Sarafoff, the Macedonian agitator, who is now in command of the insurgents, it being pointed out that the attitude of the Bulgarian government has been correct since receiving Russia's admonition.
 The plan of Sarafoff as understood here is to bring about European inter- vention by provoking the Turks to a massacre, and the murder of the Rus- sian consul at Monastir, M Rostkov- ski, is considered here to have played into the hands of the revolutionists in this respect. NJ. Rostkovski is, repre- gented here as having been very ar rogant official who upon occasions boxed the ears of soldiers and police whose conduct displeased him.
 It is officially reported that fifteen Turkish villages in the vilayet of Okhrida have been burned by the Bull garian revolutionists. There were many victims.
 The Turkish troops arrived too late Co save the villagers.
 Boris sarafoff, the active leader of the Macedonian insurgents, has warned the directors of the Oriental railway not to sell passenger tickets, for all the railways, he says, will be destroyed