The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27
ALL RESERVES OUT
TURKEY TO HAVE GREATER
FORCE THAN IN GREEK WAR.
BY ADVICE OF POWERS
REBELLION WILL BE SUPPRESSED
To PREVENT INTERFERENCE.

Troops Called Out VIII BE $50 Bat
tnliOns-Are I'm Charge of Ibrahim
Pashn, Young and Capable officer.
Seven BnttaIions Sent FIorina
from Monnstir-Insurgent Led by
Bulgarian Officers Macedonian
Committee Issues Mourning List of
Villages DestrOyed-MOre Fighting
Reported.
Constantinople, Aug. 26.-The gov
eminent has decided to call to the col
ors all the remaining European re-
serves belonging to the Second and
Third Army Corps and a number Of
other reserves, which will bring the to-
tai of the Turkish soldiers in Macedo-
MIA UP to $50 battalions, or almost dou-
BILE the force utilized in the Turko-
Greek War.
The enrolment of such large bodies
of troops indicates the seriousness
with which Turkey views the situa-
ton and her determination to use all
the means at her disposal to repress
the rebellion. Ibrahim Pasha, the new
commander of the troops, is a young
and capable officer. Seven battalions
have been dispatched to Florina from
Monastir.
The wallis of Monastir and Salonica
telegraph that they are now able to
guarantee the maintenance of order in
their respective towns.
BY Advice of Powers.
London Aug. 26.-In taking more
energetic measures for the suppression
of the revolution Turkey is acting in
accordance with the advice of the Pow
ers. The negotiations which have been
in progress relative to the Balkan sit
uation do not contemplate a general
European conference and at present
seem directed towards letting the Sui
tan have a free hand in quelling the
revolution in Macedonia.
The forthcoming conference of King
Edward with Emperor Francis Jo-
seph and King George of Greece at
Vienna and the visits of the Car and
Emperor William to Vienna and of the
Car and Foreign Minister Lamsdorff
to Rome will enable the monarchs to
| thoroughly discuss Balkan affairs, and
before the conclusion of the conference
| Turkey proposes so far as possible to
| restore order, so that international &C
ton will be unnecessary.
List of Turkish OutraRes.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug ga private
telegram from Dubnitza says that a
number of Bulgarian officers leading a
band Of $50 insurgents recently forced
| their way past the Turkish post al
Fekia and now occupy an unassailable
position.
/ Rumors are current here of serious
massacres at Vasiliko and Kirk Kills
sab. Three hundred persons are said
to have been killed. Details and con-
| firmation are lacking.
| An immense mass meeting of Mace
| domains took place here to-day. The
| proceedings were most enthusiastic
| 1t was resolved that a memorandum
should be presented to the representa-
tives of the great Powers at Sofia, urg.
| ing their governments to take action
| The Macedonian Committee has is
sued a black bordered list of seventy
villages which have been pillaged and
| destroyed in the vilayet of Monastir
to which are added instances Of revolt
| ing outrages perpetrated on women
! The publication of the sheet has Gre
ated a sensation.
| No news has been received in off,
cial circles to-day from the interior OF
Macedonia. The revolutionists at
Kishchevo are reported to have six
| quick firing guns. In a fight which
has Just occurred in that district the
| insurgents defeated and slaughtered
and entire detachment of eighty SOL
diers.