The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-07
WAR OF DIFFERENTIATION.
Turks Massacring the inhabitants of
the Okrsda District.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE Daily Mails cor
respondent at Monastir, telegraphing under
Saturdays date, says: There is no doubt
that a Turkish war of determination is pro-
ceeding in the Okrida district. The mas
sacres of a century ago are as nothing COM
pared with those occurring daily in the viii
ayet of Monastir. 1 have obtained SUBJ
stantial evidence to prove that the Turkish
Nizams turkish regular troops are, in
most cases, committing unheard-of atroci-
ties. which are not solely the work of the
bashi-bazouks, as the authorities are seek
ing to prove. The plight Of the survivors
is terrible. Not daring to leave their houses,
and subsisting on grass and water, they re-
semble people in the last stages Of famine.
The Turks are also losing heavily, judging
from the number of injured arriving here"
Among the INSTANCES he gives in support of
his statement the correspondent relates that
alive and kept in this horrible condition for
several days, to the delight of his torment
ors, until a merciful Turk shot him dead.
1t is announced at Cettinje, Montenegro,
that the Montenegrin foreign minister, NJ.
Vukovitch, has started for Constantinople.
From Athens comes the news that the
Greek government has been officially i'm
formed that the Grand Vizier has ordered
and the punishment of officers concerned
in them.
The Sonia correspondent or the Daily
Telegraph sends ar interview with H.. Tar
tarscheff. a member Of the international
Macedonian revolutionary committee, in the
course of which the latter declared that
put an end to the struggle. 1t might
modify il, but the M~acedonians were in
earnest and would not be deferred by the
weather. With reference to the atrocities
attributed to the insurgents, NJ. Tartar
scheff said they might not be excusable,
but were certainly applicable by the Turk
ish savagery which provoked them.
A Verna dispatch to the Times says the
Macedonian band. with their baggage and
ammunition, were aboard the steamer
vaskapu, and this circumstance seems TO
indicate that the explosion was accidental.
Other special dispatches from CONSTANT
nople published here this morning all con-
cur regarding the gravity of the situation
been increased by the fact hat the Sultan
last Friday reviewed and presented colors
to two new hussar regiments. recruited
from the tribes which produced the Otto
man dynasty, this being the first time
that the Sultan has presided at such cere-
mony, The Turkish papers are making
patriotic appeals 10 the loyalty and devo-
ton of the nation
1t is stated that an Internal machine was
found in the baggage of a Bulgarian pas
senger on the Greek steamer Margarita.
bound from Burgas to the Piraeus. In con-
sequence of the bomb outrage on the steam
er Naskapu the Austrian Lloyds' Steam
ship Company refuses To take passengers
baggage between Bulgaria and CONSTANT
nople.
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from
C~onstantinople says the military party is
clamoring for war, but the Sultan still hest
tates. Nevertheless. troops are being
massed along the frontier in readiness TO
take the field.
Advices from SaIonica state that the
authorities have received from CONSTANT
nople orders tn prepare lists of the Armen-
ianS and SQrvionS living In Sal0piea who
will be subjected to the strictest police sur
VIGILANCE.
On the Sultan's fete day II transpired that
the clubs. composed Of the low