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MASSACRES IN THE BALKANS
Women and Children Slain and Houses
Burned by Turks.
MANY VILLAGES DEVASTATED
Atrocities Authenticated by the Russian
and Austrian CousuIs ut Monnstir-San-
culinary Fighting in nAdrianople-Great
er Fear of War - Turks Aiming Rap
idIy-Italian Warning to the Porte.

culinary Fighting in nAdrianople-Great'
er Fear of War - Turks Aiming Rap
idIy-Italian Warning to the Porte.
Sofia, aria.-Reports from Mon
astir, authenticated by the Russian
and Austrian Consuls. give details OF
massacres. At the village of Armenskc
the Turks destroyed $50 houses out OF
a total Of 157 and massacred every
man, woman and child. The women
were subjected to the most terrible
atrocities by the soldiers.
Eighty revolutionaries, captured a.
Krushevo, who were sent in the direc
tion of Monastir in chains, were
slaughtered by their guards. The sani
tary conditions of Krushevo are de
scribed as revolving. The dead are ly
ing in the streets stripped Of every
garment, the Turks even taking the
vestments off the body Of priest.
The Turks, it is reported, have mas
sacred all the women and children i'll
twenty-five villages Of Florina and
Monastir. and have burned the vii
lagos. They are alleged to have killed
a number Of prisoners. The streets OF
Krushevo are said to be strewn with
dead. The survivors are afraid to
bury the bodies.
Following the proclamation Of the
revolution throughout the vilayet OF
Adrianopole the insurgents cut all the
telegraph lines connecting the city OF
Adrianople with the eastern parts OF
the vilayet
Sofia.-Travelers who arrived here
from Adrianople state that massacre
Of Christians has occurred there. One
version says the guns in one Of the
forts opened fire on an insurgent band
which had attacked q military out
post. A panic followed inside the
town. and the Mahometan population
fell upon the Christians. According to
another version, Turkish officer tried
to force an entrance into q Bulgarian
house in order to molest the inmates.
The latter resisted, whereupon the Ma
hometans became excited. and bands
of soldiers and bashi-baZouks attacked
the Bulgarian quarter Of the town.
Constantinople, Turkey.-According
to Turkish advices, when the insur'
gents captured Vasiliko, in the eastern
part of the vilayet Of Adrianople. they
killed the garrison. consisting of fifty
soldiers, and about 100 Of the inhab'
itants.
The insurgents were threatening
Midia. sixty miles northwest of Con
stantinople on the Black Sea, and were
reported also to be attacking the I'm
portant town Of Kirk-kilisseh, thirty
two miles from Adrianople.
Christian, Greek and Mussulman
refugees haye arrived at the mouth OF
the Bosphorus from the neighborhood
of Midia. fearing a massacre there
They have been sheltered in the laZa-
retto at Anadoli-KavGk and are being
fed by the authorities.
The lighthouse at Kuru-Burun, III
Iniaaa Bay, has been abandoned by its
keepers on account Of the nearness OF
the insurgents. =.
The Italian embassy has notified the
Porte that it holds it responsible for
any injury which may be done to the
Consul Of Italy at Monastir, and de-
mands punishment Of those who in
suited the Consul recently by calling
him a 'giaour' (infideD.