Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
10000 KILLED
Is the Report Of Massacre by
Turks at Kastoria.
Feared That Entire Population Of tie
C;tyIs Wiped Out.
If True the Beginning of the End for
Turkey Is Near.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 1.-THE foreign
office here has received reliable infor-
nation that the Turks have DESTROYED
the town of KaStoria (36 miles soutb of
Monastir) and have massacred the
population.
The report of a massacre at Kastoria
comes from sources admitting of little
dougt though the details are lacking
1T was received with the gravest con-
Germ by the officials here. The popuIa
ton of KaStoria numbers about 10 OOo
persons and the massacre of such a
number in one place, if the report is
true, exceeds anything which has vet
occurred in Macedonia. At the present
critical moment, when popular feeling
is intense, the effect of the report of
such stupandous slaughter may be most
serious.
Kastoria is situated on the west side
of Il small lake. It's population num-
bers 10000 of whom 1900 We're Servians.
The remainder We're Mohamedan
Greeks, Zingars and Jews.
The German representative here has
addressed Il note to the Bulgarian
government in accord with the declara-
lions of Russia and Austria saynt
that Bulgaria cannot expect assistance
from any power in the event of war
with Turkey and that the Austro-
Russian reform plan will be applied
Dispatches from Uskub announces that
since the calling out of the Turkish re-
serves the situation in the vilayet has
grown worse The Austrian and Rus
to ,eIyc L
their ambaSSa doris at ConstantnOple to
demand that the Porte disband the re-
serves or maintain discipline among
them.
The Autonomye publishes the names
of 10 villages in the Vilayet of MOnaS-
tir which We're recently destroyed by
the regular troops and Bashi- RaZoUks
and also announces that the monastery
Of the Holy of Holes, near Okride, (2S
miles from Morastir) has been
destroyed. At the monastry Turkish
soldiers killed an entire family, the
Bulgarian priest, his children and his
grandchildren, 35 persons in all.
Trains entering Turkey from Bulgaria
are stopped at Moustapha Pasha and
the passengers baggage is vigorously
train. The passengers are detained all
night and are then sent back to Bull
garia. LIB b" "'4". ID. 'J
The press is assuming beliicose
tone. The Dnevink urges the imme-
date mobilization of the whole BuIga-
rian arm. pointing out that the eXper
fence of other nations has proved that
it is always necessary to display
strength when dealing with Turkey.
The government to avoid unnecessarily
exciting tho people. has resolved not to
mobilize any part of the Sofia garrison.
The war office has recalled the BulGa-
rian officers who We're studying in the
military schools of Russia, France. Aus
tria and s1taly. ~ &, Nj.
According to a telagfdnR fr9ni Constan-
tinople ts,the Greek H tfta rSh has com.
planned to the Porte that the Bulgarian
cXarch is helping the revolution in Mace
donia and has asked the Porte to limit
the eNarch's authority keep him under
supervision and give the Greek patriarch
authority over the Christians in Mace
donna.
a letter from Adrianople says 1900
refugees have arrived in that city