The Penn's Grove record., 1903-08-21
MEMORANDUM TO POWERS
Bulgaria Tells Of Turkish Atrocities
in Macedonia.
MURDER, ARSON AND PILLAGE

Government Presents a List Of the Last
Three Months Outrages-Particulars
All Obtained From Onicial Sources
Bulgarians Put in Prison-Turkey,s
Promises Broken.
Constantinople, Turkey.-The Brit.
ISL Ambassador has called the atten-
ton of the Porte to the serious sit
uation in Macedonia. He pointed out
that grave consequences may attend
fresh murders of consuls or foreign
subjects. q.
Sofia, Observation-Disclosures massa-
ores. individual murders. t~ortures, de-
struction of villages. looting and burn
Ing Of houses, arbitrary imprisonment,
Punishment, breaking up of churches
and schools, running of merchants, ex-
acting of taxes many years in advance,
are some Of the counts i'll the official
indictment of Turkey returned to the
Powers Of Europe in q memorandum
by the Bulgarian Government.
Precise details are given. with dates,
places and names, the particulars be-
ing obtained wholly from official
sources-reports Of the Bulgarian
Consuls and agents and Turkish au-
thOritieS. The Bulgarian Government
guarantees the truth Of every state
ment.
Here are some Of the instances set
forth:
HNvya -, o-1 Grvo L1-
tured to death in Gorma Ribnitza by
1919 soldiers.
Twenty-Five villages in the Tikevesch
district were raided by soldiers and
Bashi-Bazouks, villagers beaten and
tortured, the women assaulted and the
houses plundered while government
officials looked on.
Artillery RACED the flourishing town
of Smardesch.
Greek bands, with the connivance of
Turkish authorities, pillaged Bulgar-
ian villages and murdered many in
habitants.
In Uskub villayet the whole Bulgar-
ian population has been systematically
prosecuted. The director of the nor
NAL school was imprisoned because
his library contained the revolution
airy" works of "Othello' and Lies
M~iserables.v
The Palanka, Koschani, Kourmanovo
and Gostigar district prisons are filed
with Bulgarian priests, s~choolmasters
and merchants.
Soldiers and Bashi-B azouks tortured
the people of Schtif district with red
| hot irons.
Massacres took place in the town of
Salonica and the villages of Balvedo,
Banitza, Tchourilovo, Karbinza, Mog-
hila, Smerdesch and Enidje.
Carnage, pillage. and incendarism
were everywhere.
At Smerdesch over 200 Bulgarians
were shot, killed with swords or
burned to death. Over $50 houses and
the churches and schools were set on
fire with petroleum and pillaged.
Similar scene occurred in the vii
lagos of Gorna-Ribnitza, Igoumenetz,
Dorbrilaki and Nikoden. The vii
layers abandoned their homes and fled
to the mountains.
More than 5000 men, women and
children fed from Sores, Sanjak Prov
ince and more from Kirkkilsze San
jak.
The estimates of Bulgarians impris-
oned are: Salonica, 900 prisoners;
Uskub, 500; Monastir, $50, and Adriano-
pie, $50; total, 2800. AS information
is lacking from many districts, it is
thought that the whole number Of
prisoners may be three times the total.
Bulgarian merchants and artisans in
Constantinople, Salonica and else.
where, some of whom had been estah-
lished twenty years, were ordered to
return to their native villages and were
not allowed to dispose Of their prop
erty.
Encouraged by the Ottoman authori-
ties, Greek bishops and archiman-
drites forced their way into the Bull
garian churches, burned the prayer
books and compelled the people to ac-
knowledge the Patriarch.