Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-31
INSURGENT DEFEAT.
Bu1garians Fled Before Turks.
Losing a Thousand Men.
PORTE ASKS RECALL OF FLEET
Authorities at Beirut Are Displaying
Marked Activity In Their Eff
forts to Find the Assault
ant of MageIsscn. .f-

ant of Magelssen.
SALONIKA, Turkey, Aug. 31.-The
Bulgarian insurgents sustained Sc.
we're reverse at Smilovo, 1000 Of them
being killed.
The insurgents to the number of 5000
occupied a position on a height which
was stormed by six battalions Of Turk.
ish troops commanded by Servet Pasha.
After losing 1000 of their number the
Bulgarians fed in the face Of the heavy
Turkish artillery fire. The Turkish
losses were insignificant.
Dispatches received from CONSTANT
nop1e, Monastir and Adrianople reveal
an equally unsatisfactory condition of
affairs in Macedonia. At Monastir the
insurgents are said to be masters Of the
situation. kilograms from Adrianople
declare that the insurgent bands are
continuing their ravages.
At the moment that the porte is ask
ing Belgium to supply officers for the
Macedonian gendarmery the Swedish
ambassador at Constantinople has no.
titled the Turkish government that IN
less they receive their pay Immediately
leave the country.
The Servian diplomatic agent has no
tilted the porte that two divisions of
the Servian army have been modified
without any hostile intention as re-
CARDS Turkey, but they will be sent to
the frontier to prevent Albanian incur
sions into Servia.
A new outbreak is reported to have
occurred in the environs of Salonika,
and several skirmishes have taken
place between Gievgyeli and Salonika,
and there has also been fight near
Edidjevarda, both sides losing heavily.
In the district between Kastoria and
Florina, south OF Monastir, the insur-
gents have destroyed all the fortified
residences Of the wealthy beys. A no
torious brigand named Abdul Medjid
recently delivered harangue to the
inhabitants of Tetovo telling them to
prepare themselves to slaughter all the
Bulgarians upon the first appearance
of revolutionary bands in the neighbor-
hood
Many wounded Turkish soldiers have
been brought into Salonika from U.s.
kub, Sores and Monastir. The Turkish
troops are reported to be greatly dis
couraged, and many deserters have
been thrown into prison.
1t is reported that the hodja teachers
attached to a mosque) in the vilayet of
! Kossovo are preaching that the time
for holy war has come and that the
, people must be ready to kill the Chris
, tians in the vilayet. Insurgent bands
are said to be in complete control of
the districts of Demirhissar and Kits
chevo and the chief mountain passes
in the vi1ayet of Monastir.
The total strength of the bands in
the vilayet of Adrianople is estimated
at 5000 men. The insurgents have
blown up the barracks at Ghioktepe,
near Malkoternovo, killing sixty sol
diers. They also attacked and set fire
to the Turkish camps at Egripalanka,
Kratovo and Kotcheni A great panic
ensued, the troops firing into each
other.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
| that after an interview with Foreign
Minister Tewfik Pasha Minister Leish-
! man requested Washington to recall
the European squadron, which has been
| ordered to Beirut
Since the representations made by
| United States Minister Leishman re-
/ garding the attempt on the life Of Vice
Consul Magelssen the authorities at
Beirut are displaying marked activi-
/ ty in their efforts to find the culprit.
| Belgrade Sympathy For Macedonia.
BELGRADE, Servia, Aug. 81. - A
| crowd of thousands of people gathered
, in the Theater square and demonstrate
ed in sympathy with the Macedonians.
i Several we'll known politicians spoke.
They condemned Turkish misrule, ap-
! pealed TO the Servians to assist the