The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-25
BALKAN SITUATION BAD.
GENERAL CONDITION FAST BE-
 COMING INToLERABLE.
Rumors of n1assaors.. A.roo,s,e. sud Murder of Prisoners Au.hen,le..sa-
 Fear That the Worst Has Not oems- Bulgarian omeia,s and Diplomasie
Circles Alike Concerned.

| OtFcles hbtAc concerned.
 Sofia, Aug. 24.-W1th the rurnors of massaores. atrocities and the murder of prisoners in Monastir now authenticate ed the general situation is considered here as fast becoming intoIerabie. Ohi- cials and diplomatic circles are alike concerned, having every reason to have a fear that only a part of the horrors enacted in the interior of Macedonia have yet to come to light.
 The revolutionary committees are doing their utmost to force the hands Of the Bulgarian government and the immediate outlook is exceedingly ser- ious
 It appears that the Turks have obs tained the upper hand in the vilayet of Monastir and the insurgents are plan- ming to remove the center Of their ac- tivity to unpleasant proximity to the Bulgarian frontiers. Dispatches arriv- ing to-day from the disturbed area are exceedingly gloomy. From Adrianople comes the news of Turkish, defeat and the extension of the revolutionary out break: from Monastir. the news of Turkish victories accompanie dby bar- barous excesses. While many of the reports remain without confirmation, sufficient authen- tic details are forthcoming to cause the authorities the gravest anxiety. Ac- cording to the Sofia Dneynik the Turks committed unspeakable atrocities at Krushevo. The muttated corpses of ninety women and children were found in one building: pieces of the bodies had been thrown into the street. Eff teen of the principal merchants of tho town were killed and their heads ex- hibited on poles.
 At Monastir. the churches were de- molished. the houses sacked and the town is now a head of ashes. The pop ulaee fled to the hills. where they are in starving condition.
 The Dnevnik also asserts that a, gen. Egeral massacre has occurred in the villa yet of Monastir. Nearly all the villages have, been destroyed. The treacherous murder of eighty insurgent prisoners by the guards near Monastir has me 2 :. an especially bad impression here.
 Many rumors are current of massa- cres in the city of Adrianople, but con firmation is lacking. The situation there. however. is undoubtedly serious. The population is afraid to leave the houses. The prisons are sull and the yali has taken provite houses to be used as jails. When the Russian consul pro- tested at the situation the vali is re- ported to have answered that he was Dowerless against the fanatical move ments of the people.
 Salonica, European Turkey, Sunday. Aug. 2S-An insurgent movement is afoot in the vilayet of Salonica. It is feared that it threatens Vodena (forty- six miles from here), Salonica and other towns. Well-informed persons here share in the general disquietude- Large bands are reported to have been organizd by Bulgarians who, 1t is ex- pected, at a given signal may resort to general incendiarisrn. The Turkish population is resolved, should great disturbances occur, to externinate alt the Bulgarians in this city Conse- quently a number of Bulgarian resi- dents are leaving Salonica.s