The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-11
ATROCITIES
 IN M0NASTIR Fearful 0utTageS by the
 Turks. EVEN DEAD NOT EXEMPT Funerals Stopped and Corpses Stripped of Clothes. Young Girls Dishonored in Presence of Parents-eo, ,ooo Persons Star wing and Refused Privilege
 of Begging.

Sofia, Sept. 10.-A European merchant who left Monastir Sept. 8. has arrived at Sofia and has given the Associated Press correspondent an account of the terrible conditions prevailing in the vila- yet of Monastir.
 He says Hilmf Pasha's administration has greatly disappointed the Christians. who expected that he would make an improvement In the situation. Hilmi Pasha, however, Is following the lines of his predecessors, and the greatest ex- cesses that have ever been committed have happened since his arrival.
 Throughout the vilayet of Monastir the Turkish soldiers are daily perpetrating almost inconceivable atrocities. They dis .honor the young girls in the presence of their parents and pillage and. murder everywhere.
 Corpses Stripped of Clothes.
 Even funeral processions are halted and the corpses stripped of the new clothes in which they are dressed, &C., cording to the Macedonian burial custom. The priests vestments are seized and the soldiers sell all their plunder open ly. the officers apparently consenting. The informant of the Associated Press says the Christian inhabitants hourly fear a general massacre by the Mus sulmans. whose fanatical hatred of the .SufibtkduS ndB Ithfn6a tn6 nlSneSt QOluI. The shops are closed in Monastir. busi- ness is suspended and the streets are deserted.
 Even the consuls do not dare to ven- ture outside their homes. Europeans de- string to see the burned villages are pre- vented by the authorities on various ex- cuses. The British consul wanted to go to Smilevo. but Hilmi Pasha informed him that he could not guard his safety as the revolutionaries had plotted to kill him.
 10000 Persons Starving.
 The informant continues that 1t is es- plsssin- the hclds without shelter and starving. I1ilmi Pasha has promised the consuls that he will assfst the destitute people. but he has done nothing, even refusing to allow them to enter the town and beg for goods. The Greeks are ac- cused of inventing reports for the pur- pose of flaming the Mussulmans hatred of the Bulgariane.
 The Turkish functionaries openly scofe at the idea of reforms or European in- tervention, declaring that should armed European forces come the Turks would immediately burn. destroy and massacre. leaving only bare fields throughout Mace donia.
 Bulgaria May Act.
 Premier Petroff is said to have informed the representatives of the Powers in Sofia that neither the Government nor the Bulgarian people can witness with in- difference the annihilation of the Bulga- rian element in Macedonia and the de- vastation of the country unless the pow CTS can find some means of restraining Turkeys terrible repressing measures Bull garia will be forced to depart from her present attitude of strict neutrality. While the Premiers intimation was con- veyed in the course of informal conver- sation with the diplomats in Sofia, and in no sense intended as an official commu- unication 1t may be regarded as an indi- cation that the patience of the Bulgarian people is becoming exhausted. Every day brings news of fresh massacres and out rages in Macedonia.
 The official view of the situation con- tinues pessimistic, but in some other qaur- ters the Dener prevails that the powers will shortly propose new scheme of pacIfcaton in Macedonia and thus re- move the possibility of Turco- Bulgarian war.
 Much confidence is expressed that the approaching visit of the Czar to Vienna will result in the peaceful solution of the difficulties.
 Telegrams from the frontier indicate ap- | preaching disturbances in northern and eastern Macedonia. A telegram from Djoumaia says the rich Turks are leav- | ing the village in that district and that the Pomiks or Bulgarian Mohammedans | would follow suit, but do not know where | they can find refuge.
 Forest of Pierin Burning.
 The great forest of Pierin is burning. | The Turks set fire to the forest in four places and the flames are visible at a great distancel Fighting is reported to be taking place near Melnik and another fight is going on in the vilayet of Mon- astir. Near Midish, district of Kostur, it is reported that a band led by Tohaka- lorofr has defeated detachment of Turk ish troops, who had about sixty killed. Many wounded Turks are arriving at Monastir, filling the hospitals. The pop ulation in the district of Veles are report ed to be in a terrible condition Nearly all their villages have been plundered and l destroyed. The old men. women and chil- | dren were brutally logged by the sol- l diers and many were killed, the Bashi | Bazourks leaving the bodies unburied.
 A telegram from Burgas states that | 2.0O0 Turkish soldiers with two cannon have landed near Vasiliko, on the Black Sea and attacked the town, which is still coupled by the insurgents.