The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-31
MACEDONIA FACES FAMINE.
TURKISH ARMY has DESTROYED
THE CROPS.
Troops Get Beyond Discipline I'm Monastlr
and Are Burning yillaSes-NIace-
DOMAINS Meet at Belgrade and DE
mand Armed Intervention by Seryia.

and Arc Burning Villages-Niace-
| DOMAINS Meet at Belgrade and DE
mand Armed Intervention by Seryia.
Special Gable Despatch TO The SUN.
LONDON, Aug. 30. The area of the
instruction in Macedonia is spreading
steadily. The uprising is being assisted
partly by the scarcity Of food. which Is
driving neutrals whose districts are iso-
lated by the wreckage OF the railway into
the ranks Of the insurgents.
Dispatches from Salonica say anarchy
is now supreme in the province Of Mon
astir. The Turkish troops have got beyond
| discipline and are wreaking vengeance
alike on the Greeks and Wallachians and
burning villages, yet the insurgents con-
tinue to multiply. They assert that they
killed the entire local garrison Of Setina,
numbering 1870 men.
The vast Turkish army now in the dis
turbed district has eaten or destroyed
almost all the crops and over 100000 people
will have to be fed somehow.
The district around Salonica is in the hands
Of the insurgents. The Consuls at Salonica
have asked that warships be sent there.
Reports received here say 5000 troops
plundered the Florina district. They de-
stroyed all the homes and left the popula-
ton in helpless misery. Women were
outraged and men tortured and murdered.
It is difficult to gauge the extent OF the
exaggerations but Turkish official YER
sions describe most Of these disorders as
minor affairs.
A despatch from Belgrade says the in
l. Al l. .~I.- -
Lerin Mountains and killed 200 soldiers.
They also blew up an inn at Coritza, killing
fifty persons These and other similar
affairs are greatly magnified by the in
surgents.
meeting Of Macedonians was held
in Belgrade to-day, which was attended
by 5000 persons. Resolutions were adopted
protesting against the Turkish atrocities
and demanding that the pacification Of
Macedonia under the Sultan's sovereignty
should be left to the Balkan States inter-
ested. Before the meeting dispersed some
students brought forward resolution
demanding armed intervention by Servia.
Two men, one Macedonian and the
other Montenegrin, stood on the platform
and waving loaded revolvers summoned
the Servians TO take up arms. Thereupon
the intervention resolution was adopted
by reclamation.
Prince Ferdinand OF Bulgaria arrived at
Budapest on Saturday night from Murany
and started for Sofia where he was due
Sunday night
LONDON, Aug. 3l.--The Constantinople
correspondent of the Standard says there
is prospect for a radical solution Of the
Macedonian question, which is already
shaping itself and has been fastened by
the last weeks serious anxiety both to the
Turks ard diplomats.
The writer says he believes rho solution
of the trouble will he the nominal srlzerainty
Of the Sultan over an almost autonomous
Christian province.
He points out that Turkey now has
10000 troops In Macedonia and nearly
$4,000 more on the borders and is still calling
out reserves, all Of whom must he fed, If
not paid.
He says that one regiment recently en-
barked with less than dozen loavee Of
bread. He declares that another $lO.-
100000 will be required for the immediate
necessities. An attempt will be made to
include this in the debt unifcation scheme,
which ia now being pressed forward