The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-23
THE MASSACRE 1T KiST0R|A.
Further Reports Would Appear 10
Confirm the News.
THE TURKS IRE sLAUGHTERING
Bulgarian and Greek Men, Women
and Children lndiscriminately.

Sofa, Bulgaria, Sept. 1s.-Further
reports from Kastoria say the city is
burning and that the massacre OF It's
population festimated to have num-
bered 10000 persons1 was indescrlb-
ably terrible. The Turks slaughtered
indiscriminately bulgarians and
Greeks, men, women and children.
A Turkish war balloon is reported
to have been seen lowering for the last
three days close to the Bulgarian
frontier, in the vicinity of Haskovo.
a severe fight has occurred at Ula-
vita, in the mountains OF hratovo'
between 2,Goo Turks and 50 1nsur-
gents. It continued for eight hours.
The insurgents used bombs With DEAD
" effect. About one hundred Turks
are reported to have been killed and
many we're wounded. The insurgents
had two men wounded.
81 A fight is also reported to baVe
taken place at Rupel Paso, near Seres,
where insurgent bands recently sur
rounded and annihilated a whole COM
napy of Turks. The bands then fed
TO the mountains.
BEIRUT is QUIET.
Washington, Sept. 1S.-The follow
ING bulletin was posted at the navy
department today:
g Admiral Cotton cables from Beirut,
18th inst, that Beirut is quiet and
nothine of Importance has occurred
since SATURDAY, last. Some definite
news about the cae of the vice consul
iS ay0scted soon
RULGARIA'S FIGHTING FORCE.
4 Paris, Sept. IS.-Adyices to the for
eign Office from Sofa says the 3,0OO
mer being modified in Bulargia will
bring the present effective force up
top 500, 900 troops.
TURKS KILL 800 BULGARIANS.
salonica, Sept. 1s.-Three hundred
BuIgarians have been killed in hight
between insurgents and Turkish toops
between Okriad and Dibra. The Bul-
parian dead included many officers,
one of whom wore Rnsisan decora-
tion.
a battalion of redifs attacked the
Christian gendarmes at Mltrecltza
Sept. l6, and several of the latter
were killed and wounded. The rest
of the gendarmes took refuge at the
Russian consulate, where they are be-
sieged. The situation at MlsroVitza
is extremely critical.
ATROCITIES UNDEREsTIMATED.
London. Sept. 1s.-The Westmins-
ter Gazette says well-known London
journalist cables from Belgrade as fol-
lows:
Starting with Pro-Turkish sympa-
thies, have found overwhelming eyl-
dence convincingly proving that the
Turkish atrocities are rather under
estimated In the reports OF British
consuls. bankers and unpreju judiced
people. Foreign Minister Tzokof tells
me he knows cases of starving women
in the forests killing two Of her own
children to preserve the third. Ihe
forest wanderers will all perish OF cold
nj hin two months. y
London, Sept. 21.-The Daily Mails
correspondent at Sofa telegraphs !:
Zone Of the revolutionary chiefs has in
formed me that the reVoiutioists are
massing thousands Of men at various
points on the frontier, and their lab
oratories are working incessantly to
replenish their stocks Of bombs and
explosives. They do not count much
on war between Turkey and Bulgaria,
but on the day they hear that the
meeting between the Gear and Emper-
or Francis Joseph has not had the de-
sired result for Macedonia the world
VIII witness the beginning of massa-
cres, burnings and destruction COM
pared with which the Turkish atroci-
ties will seem child's play. The ban
ner Of revolution, my informant says,
will be unfurled in all the border dis
tricts. Every city and village, whesh-
er the inhabitants are friends or foes.
will be destroyed, and s9ch stste OF
anarchy will be caused that the Turks
will step out voluntarily and leave the
country to the Macedonian survivors.
We have settled the frontier districts
for these final operations, 80 that
Europe may hear the despairing cries
of the dying nation which the Turks
would stihe. -
Sofa. Bulgaria, Sept. lS.-The revo-
Iutionaries are now concentrating all
their operations in eastern Macedonia,
the latest dispatches from which iocall-
ty report general rising was fixed to
begin today. The insurgents claim to
have accumulated vast stores OF arms
and ammunition and dynamite to be
prepared to enter upon a serious cam
paign. Fighting already is proceed
ing at Melnik, province of Seres.
which place is besieged by bands OF
insurgents under tne leadership OF
Stoyanof, Rankof, Zograto and Oar
yinhof, all Of whom were formerly
officers in the Bulgarian army. The
town of Melnick is a very important
strategic point in the mountains COM
manding the road between Demirhis-
sar and Razlog. Those besieging it
number 1,5O0 while the Turkish garri-
son is believed to consist of only one
battalion. The result of the attack
mon the town is not yet known, but