The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-17
BULGARIA ACCUSES TURKEY
SCATHINGLY ARRAIGNS PORTE
 IN NOTE TO POWERS.

4 Terrible Category ofMurdsr, Torture IncendiarIsm, PiIIage and General Oppression by ottoman Soldiers Turkish Government Challenged to l Disprove a single Charge-Precise De- | tails Given. ..
 Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 1s.-The Bulga- rian government has presented mem orandum to the powers setting out at great length the condition of affairs during the past three months in Mace donia, since the Turkish government undertook to inaugurate the promised reforms. The most precise details, dates, places and names of persons are given in the memorandum, the whole constituting terrible category of mur- der, torture, incendiarism, pillage and general oppression, committed by the Ottoman soldiers and officials. These particulars were obtained entirely from official sources, such as the reports of the Bulgarian consuls and agents of the Bulgarian government, and in many in stances the reports made by Turkish authorities. The Bulgarian government guarantees the absolute truth of every statement and challenges the porte to disprove a single charge made in the memorandum.
 The memorandum begins by stating that during the past three months the ottoman government has taken series of measures with the alleged intention of inaugurating the era of promised re-. forms and of assuring peace and tram quility, in the Bulgarian population of European Turkey, but which have had the contrary effect of further exasper- ating this population and reviving the revolutionary movement. Instead of proceeding solely against persons guilty of breaches of the public order the mill itary and civil authorities have sought every possible pretext to persecute, ter- rorize and ruin the Bulgarian inhabi- tants, alike in the large cities and in the small villages.
 Wholesale massacres, individual mur- ders, the destruction of villages, the pill laging and setting fire ta houses, ar rests, ill-treatment, tortures arbitrary imprisonment and banishment, the closing and disorganizing of churches and schools, the ruining of merchants, aAt.- is>~f kaxya n. stances in advance, proceeds the memo randum, are among the acts of the Ot- toman administration of the vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Uskub and Adrian ople.
 The memorandum next relates in de- tail number of such cases in each vil- ayet. Beginning with the vilayet of Sa- lonica, it states that in the town of Sa- lonica itself the Bulgarian professors of the university, the students and shop keepers-in fact, ali intelligent Buigari- ans in the city-4have been cast into nrison. One hundred and twenty sol diers entered the village of Gorna- Rib nlitza May 19 and tortured to death five men and two women. During the first three weeks of July 25 villages in the district of Tikvesch were subject to the depredations of the Turkish soldiers and Bazouks. The villagers were beat. en and tortured, the women violated and the houses plundered while the ad- ministrative authorities looked on.
 Tn the vilayet of Monastir artillery bonbarded and razed the fourishins town of Smerdesch, the three hundred houses being left heap of ruins. Al the beginning of July two Greek bands with the eonnivance of the authorities pillaged Bulgarian villages and murder, ed many of their inhabitants.
 Tn the vilayet of Uskub the entire Bulgarian population has been system atically persecuted since last May Ths director Of the normal school at Uskul was imprisoned because his library con tained the revolutionary work ttOthelIo' and e'Les Miserab1es." In tn districts of sPalanka, Koschani, Kouma noyo and Gostigar the prisons are fillet with Bulgarian prieses, schoolmaster and merchants. During June the sol diers and Bashi -bazollks terrorized tn inhabitants of the Schtif district, tor turing the people with red-hot irons Similar atrocities perpetrated in the vii E ayet of Adrianople are cited.
 Altogether the memorandum give particulars of no less than 1S1 individ ual and general cases of excesses an outrages committed by the Turkish au thorities.
 Tn summarizing the specific details c Ahe outrages mentioned the memoran dunn declares that wholesale massacre were perpetrated by regulars an Bashi- -bazouks in the town of Salonic and the villages of Baldievo, Banitzs Tschouri1ovo, Karbinza Moghila, Sme1 s1esch and Enidje, while the scenes { carnage, pillage and incendiarism wer everywhere terrible.
 At Smerdesch over two hundred Bu Earians were shot, killed with sword or burned to death. Over 250 house and the churches and schools were st on fire with petroleum and pillaged, tf property being sold by the soldiers an Bashi- bazouks in neighboring place Similar scenes occurred at the village of Gorna- -Ribnitza, Igoumenetz, Dobr naki and Nikoden, The villagers thel abandoned their homes and fled to u mountains.
 Over three thousand men, women ar children fled from the Sanjak of Ser and even more from the Sanjak
 Kirkklisze.
 It is difficult, says the memorandum
 to obtain the exact number of Bulgar
 ans who were imprisoned, mostly (
 the fiimsiest, pretexts, as when th' 7 .- tS