Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-11
ABOUT EXHAUSTED.
Bu|garia's Patience With Tur-
key Almost at End.
War With Sultan Is Now on the Point
Of Being Declared.
Massacres continue-7o,o00 People
Hiding from Turks.

Sofia, Sept. 1O.-The continuous re-
Bulgarian population and the des-
truction of Bulgarian villages in
Macedonia are causing consider
able excitement in political and gen.
eral circles here. Premier Petroff is
stated to have informed the representa-
tiveS of the powers in Sofia that neith-
er the government nor the Bulgarian
people can witness with indifference
the humiliation of the Bulgarian ele-
ment in Macedonia and the devastation
of the country and unless the powers
can find some means of restraining
Turkeys terrible repressive measures,
Bulgaria will be forced to depart from
her present attitude of strict neutral
ity.
While the premiers intimation was
conversation with the diplomats in
Sofia, and in no sense intended as an
official communication, it may be re-
garded as an indication that the pa
thence of the Bulgarian people is be-
coming exhausted.
Much confidence is expressed that
the approaching visit of the Car to
Vienna will result in the peaceful solu-
ton of the difficulties.
The great forest of Pirin is burning.
The Turks set fire to the forest in four
places and the flames are visible at a
great distance. Fighting is reported to
be taking place near Menlik. an other
fight is also going on in the vilayet of
Monastir. AT Bukovit, between Krie-
ehovo and Gostiva, the insurgents sur
prised a body of Bashi- Bazouks plum
dering the village. The latter We're at
tackled and many We're Filled.
A European merchant who left Mon
astir, Sept. ;, has arrived at Sofia and
has given The Associated Press cores
pondent an account of the terrible con-
ditions prevailing inthe vilayet of Mon-
astir.t He says. Hilmi Pasha's adrninisA
tration has greatly disappointed the
Christians, and the greatest excesses;
that have been committed have hap-s
pened Since his arrival Throughout
the vilayet of Monastir, the iTurkishs
soldiers are daily perpetrating almost
inconceivable atrocities. Even funeraE
professions are halted and the corpses
stripped of the new clothes in which
hey are dressed, according to the
Macedonian burial custom. The priests
vestments are seized and the soldiers
sell all thir plumber, openly, the officers
apparently conserving.
The informant of The Associated
Dress says the Christians hourly fear
1 general massacre by the Mussulmans.
In Monastir, the streets are deserted
and even the consuls do not dare to
venture outside their homes. The Brit
ish consul wanted to go to Smilovo, but
Hilmi Pasha informed him that he
could not guarantee his safety, as the
revolutionaries had plotted to kill him.
The informant continues that 1t is
estimated that there are over 10000
people in the fields without shelter, and
starving Rilmi Pasha even refuses TO
allow destitute people to enter the town
and beg. Many cruelties perpetrated
by Christians are attributed to Greek
spies, headed by Greek bishop, who,
with the Greek consuls, 1t is said, are
paid by the Porte for their services.
The Turkish functionaries openly de-
clare that should armed European
forces come, the Turks would imnedi-
ately burn, destroy and massacre leav-
ING only the bare fields throughout
Macedonia.