Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-12
FIGHT At sOR0NTCH
Turks Report $50 Revolu-
tionists Filled.
REVOLT IS INCREASING
YOUNG MEN FROM BULGARIA
JOIN TT.
Considerable Fighting Reported In the
Districts Of Kastoria
and Florina.

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 12.-One
hundred and fifty revolutienists were killed
in the fighting at Sorovitch August ac-
cording to official Turkish reports The
same dispatches, which have been COM
municated to the Russian and Austrian
embassies, state that the insurrectionary
movement Is increasing daily. Hilmi Pasha.
inspector general of the sultan's Macedon-
ian reforms reports that the young men
in all the Bulgarian villages are fleeing to
the mountains to Join the insurgent bands.
Many among the Bulgarian peasantry
wished to remain neutral, but were COM
PEELED by threats to help the revolutionary
committees.
Hussein Hilmi Pasha, who has been ap-
pointed vail Of Monastir, reports similar
spread Of the insurrectionary movement In
the villayet of Salonica, where. he says,
the committees are resolved on the same
campaign of massacre, incendiarism and
pillage as in the villayet of Monastir.
Insurgents Occupy Krushevo.
kilograms received this morning from
Monastir announce that the town of Kru-
shevo is still occupied by the insurgents.
Four thousand Turkish troops with artillery
surround the town and are preparing to at
tack and, If possible, retake the position.
Fighting with the rebels Ia IN progress in
the district of Dibra, where 1t appears that
the Albanians are attacking Bulgarian VIII
lagos.
district Of Koritz, and have captured i'm
portant Turkish supplies of provisions.
More or less severe fighting ie reported in
the districts Of Kastoria and Florina.
Three hundred insurgents are assembled on
the heights between Gievgveli and Yenije.
Twenty-six Mussulman peasants have been
massacred in the village of Ztvernini, near
Perlepe, by the insurgents. Stringent mill
tary precautions have been taken in the
town Of Uskub to prevent threatened dyna-
mite Outrages.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, August 12-The
Mutesarif of Mush. Armenia, where Kurd-
ish excesses were recently alleged to have
occurred, has been dismissed.
New Russian Consul 1T Mcpastir.
SALONICA, August 12.-Dr. Mandelstam,
the acting Russian consul at Uslxub, who
has been appointed to saacceeE NJ Rostkov-
ski, the murdered consul Fat Monastir,
reached that town today. Some Anxiety
had been felt for his safetH as nothing
had been heard Of since hA left his post
at Uskub a couple OF days ago. The
Mutesarf Of the Uskub district refused to
give Dr. Mandelstam an escort. The con-
sui insisted on proceeding t6 his new post.
and having obtained an escort from Hilmi
Pasta he started on his own responsibility
across country for Monastir,
Uneasiness In Bulgaria.
SOFIA, Bulgaria. August 12.-yThe Bulgar-
ian foreign office has received very dis
quieting news from its agent at Uskub. The
Mussulmans there are daily gathering in
the mosques and 1t is feared that massa-
ere of the Christians is impending.
officials here express the belief that the
Intervention Of the powers alone can pre-
vent a disaster
The most astonishing feature Of the sti-
uation here is the remarkable quietude
with which the people have received the
news of the fresh rising in Macedonia. The
whole outbreak came as a great surprise
even to the local revolutionary committee,
which were not prepared for SO early a ris-
ing. In spite Of the stirring appeals of the
committees little or no popular enthusiasm
Is apparent. not even among the 10000
Macedonian residents of Sofia. How long
this condition will last depends largely on
the developments in Macedonia. At present
the center Of the disturbances Is Monastir,
long way off. Should the rising spread to
the vilayet of Uskub and come near to the
Bulgarian frontier 1t is probable that the
population of Bulgaria will become aroused.