The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-10
MACEDONIAN UPRISING.
Rebels Very Determined-Fighs in
 Which 16o Are Killed.

- b Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 9.-"N Nothing can end the present revolution in Macedonia until our national aspirations are satis- fled or those fighting to attain them are exterminated.' This was the conclud- ing sentence of statement made to- day to the special correspondent of The Associated Press. who is Investigating the situation in Macedonia. by the Ma cedonian committee at the revolutionary headquarters here.
 Boris Sarafoff, the head and front of the movement, is with the insurgents in Macedonia. His representatives here believe that the desired results will be reaped through the present movement.
 "The object of the rising" said the Macedonian committeeman, lis to win reforms which will assure to the Chris tian population of Macedonia security for their lives and property, and the right to participate in the administra- ton of the country.
 The present revolutionary organiza- tion came into existence nine years ago, when the persecution of the Bulgarian population of Macedonia became fla grant. To-day all Macedonia is em- braced in the movement, and though it was not intended to strike so soon, be- cause the preparations for the uprising were not sufficiently completed, the re- cent outrages of the Turks, the mas sacres of the innocent, the filling of the prisons with the pacific rural popula- tion, the pillaging of entire villages and the extorting of heavy fines from oth- CTS under various pretexts so exasper- ated all that the instruction was de- eided upon, no matter what might be the outcome.
 .The fighting area is widening and will graually embrace every vilayet in Macedonia until the autonomy of the country has been gained by force of arms or by the intervention of those great powers which desire peace. Not until then, will we Jay down our arms
 The Macedonian revolutionary com mittee is now drawing up and will shortly circulate declaration address ed to the powers, explaining Macedon- ian grievances and the objects of the revolution.
 The Bulgarian ministry is closely watching the situation in Macedonia and has decided to increase the from tier forces. Orders have been tele-. graphed to the frontier authorities to redouble their vigilance and prevent unauthorized individuals as well as in surgent bands from crossing the Turk ish frontier.
 The foreign minister has informed the representatives of tie powers that the government will use it's utmost en- 5deavor to quell all unrest in Bulgaria occasioned by the events in Macedonia, but the powers must do their part and take the necessary steps to induce the porte to stop the persecution of the in- nocent, and the employment of Bashi Bazouks in supDressing the revolution. The massacres likely to follow the let ting loose of the Bashi Bazouks, added the minister, are liable to precipitatei the movement in Bulgaria in favor of the revolution, and thus force the hands of the government.
 London, Aug. 1O,-The Times this morning prints dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, dated yesterday. saying that the insurgents held the town of Kru- sheyo, twenty-three miles northwest of Monastir, for two days and only with drew after severe fighting with the Turkish troops in which 16O were killed on both sides. The correspondent says that the statutes of the revolutionary committee forbid insurgents to touch peaceful Mohammedans of either sex, and that therefre the report emanating from the Turkish government that they killed Mohammedan women and chill dren in five Turkish villages in the Kastoria district are untrue.