The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-08
OMIN0US LACK OF NEWS
FROM INTERIOR DISTRICTS

Sofa, Bulgaria, Sept. lin official quar-
tiers there is a suspicious absence of new:
| from the interior of Macedonia and also
from Adrianople. and 1t Is feared that
| the conditions there are steadily becoming
| worse.
The Macedonian organizations are
straining every nerve to force Bulgaria
into a war. Large and small bands are
| crossing the frontier of Northern Mace
| donia, where General Zontcheff and Colo
mel Yankoff are organizing the insurrec-
tionary movement, which is expected to
break out in the valley Of the Struma be-
fore the end of the week.
The Macedonian committees are prose-
cutting an active campaign to raise funds
in Bulgaria. They are addressing letters
to everybody in a position to contribute
to the cause. The applications usually do
not refer to the revolutionary movement
but ask aid for the starving and homeless
fugitives from Macedonia.
THREATS ARE MADE.
Where wealthy citizens decline to sub
scribe the organizations do not hesitate to
make strong representations. A rich mer-
chant Of Philippopolis was recently told
that unless he contributed 5000 his house
would be blown up.
Several fights are reported from the dis
trict of Losengrad. At the Bashi-Bazouk
village of Sasara. the Turks lost twenty
men 50 r-re
At Tersidere a band fought 800 soldiers
all day, with the result that the Turks
had thirty-seven men killed, while the in
surgents lost five.
At Prespan. in the Okrida district, fight
ing has long been proceeding between in
surgent bands and an army of 10000 Turks.
The latter are reported to have lost more
than 800 killed or wounded.
Another engagement lasting all day has
been fought at Prib.list, Monastir vilayet,
in which the Turkish loss was given as
forty and the insurgent loss as FIVE. A
band led by Yanko Stoyanoff has de-
stroyed the village of Gorinokavieve. Car
losengrad, notorious haunt of Turkish
brigands.
The newspaper Poshta asserts that all
the villages in the district of Leren are
burning
According to revolutionary estimates,
Turkey has now in Macedonia an army of
175.oOo men, with 3.7oo horses and 40 guns.
In an engagement at Simen. Losengrad,
the villagers Joined the Turks, who were
defeated. The insurgents afterwards
burned the village as a punishment to the
Inhabitants for aiding the Turks
The revolutionaries have DESTROYED the
lighthouse near Limanpulevo The Sofia
Vedomosti states that Roumania is
Strengthening her military position on the
Bulgarian frontier.
KASTORIA DEVASTATED.
The revolutionary headquarters received
Information to-day that the Turks have
burned or otherwise destroyed nearly all
the villages in the district of Kastoria,
near the Greek frontier. The villages in
that district were the largest in Mace
donia. each having from 1,SOO to 5000 in
habitants. Among the largest burned
were Zagoritchani, Dumbeni, Kenomladi,
Mokrent and Kosinetz. All together, about
twenty-five villages in that part of Mace
donia have been destroyed.
1t is added that 800 women and children.
fugitives from Zagoritchani, went to the
Turkish commander of the district to seek
protection from the Bashi- -Bazouks. The
commander promised them protection. but
when the fugitives left the Bashi- -Bazouks
pursued, outraged and killed many of the
women and children.
The Turks have concentrated 1900 SOL
diers in the Kastoria district, who are
openly burning villages