The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-21
SUI TAN EXPRESSES
HIS GREAT REGRET
Orders Have Been Issued to
Prevent Repetition of Mon
aStir Excuses.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 2O.-In
an audience with NJ. Zinovieff. the Rus
sian ambassador, Friday, the sultan
expressed his regret at the excesses
committed by the Turkish troops in
the Vllayets of Monastir and Adriano-
pie. He said that orders had been sent
TO the authorities concerned to nre1-ant
lheir repetition, and he gave the Rms
sian ambassador to understand that
the guilty parties would be punished.
The German. ambassador. Baron Mar
schaH Won BieberStein, also had an an
dlence with the sultan, who showed
himself most optimistic The latter
declared that the insurrection was
drawing to a close In fact il had
already been suppressed in some dis
trlcts and the porte, would, therefore,
Immediately issue broclamations an
hounclng the resumption of the appIi-
cation of the reform scheme
After the granting of these audiences
an extraordinary council of ministers
was held at Yildiz Kiosk and the de-
liberat1ons were continued on Saturday.
1t is understood that the council drew
fresh instructions to the wallis in the
sense of his majesty's declaration.
Ohclal dispatches from the wallis Of
Salonlca, Monastir and Adrianople re-
port numerous encounters which re-
suited In favor of the Turks.
8ulgaria's Note Misunderstood.
SOFIA. Bulgaria. Sept. 20-Soma
apprehension having apparently been
created owing to misunderstanding
regarding the precise meaning of RuI-
sarla's last note to the pawers. explana-
lions nave been given to some diplo-
Hnauc agents here that the memoran-
uun was not intended as an ultimatum
but was rather in the nature of All an.
| peal for the intervention of the great
powers before that intervention should
De too late. The Bulgarian ministry. II
| was stated was determined to maintain
us attitude of neutrality up to the last
| moment, but it feels the impossibility
of standing by indefinitely while the
| turks exterminated the Bulgarian ele-
| ment in Macedonia.
| Inc governments position is rem
dered increasingly difficult by the at
Itude of the Macedonian population in
bulgaria, which, vigorously backed I'D
| oy the revolutionary committees, is
perslstently endeavoring to force the
| governments hand and proVode hostiI-
tiles with Turkey.
A special dispatch from the monas-
| terry of Ria, Bulgaria, says the con-
d!t1on of the Turkish garrison of Mel
NIX, siXty-five miles northeast of Sa-
Ionlca, Is believed to be extremely
critical. 1t is besieged by bands of in
surgentS under the leadership of Yam
kon, Stowanoff. Darlington and 70
grafoH all of whom were formerly
! Bulgarian officers. The insurgents
] number 1,500, while the garrison is
DeheVed to consist Of only one battaI-
lon Melnik is very important STRAIT
! egic point in the mountains, command
ing the road between Demirhissar and
Razlos. The Turks have withdrawn
nearly all their forces from the dis
trlcts or Danaoumaia and Razlog to
send them to the relief of MelniI As
| consequence unusual TRANQUILITY pre
walls throughout the district of RaZlog.
! Where the authorities. lacking the sup
| port of the troops have ceased their
policy of persecution, and the Revs
are even furnishing bands with food.
The Turkish population is described as
| being In state of great consterna-
ton. A company of Turkish soldiers
ana Bashf-BaZouks recently found the
h1ding place of a hundred families of
refugees from the villages of Dupeni
and Echle, near Resen. They cap
tured the party, violated the women
and committed other atrocities
The united bands of Monassieff and
M1chatlof have had an encounter with
the troops near Demirk- Kapu. sixty
| two miles northwest of Salonica The
Turks had many killed, including two
| officers.
ReVolutionists Are Massine.
| LONDON, Sept. 20. - The Daily
Mails correspondent at Sofia tele-
graphs:
| "One Of the revolutionary chiefs has
| informed me that the revolutionists
| are massing thousands of men at vari-
| Gus points on the frontier and their
| laboratories are working necessarily to
/ replenish their stock of bombs and
! explosives. They do not count much
on war between Turkey and Bulgaria,
but on the day they hear that the
| meeting between the czar and En-
peror Francis Joseph has not had the
| desired result for Macedonia, the world
| will witness the beginning of massa-
| cre5, burnings and destruction, COM
pared with which the Turkish atroci-
! ties will seem child's play The ban
! ner Of revolution, my informant says,
] will be unfurled in all of the border
! districts. In every city and village,
whether the inhabitants are friends or
foes, will be destroyed and such a
| state of anarchy will be caused that
the Turks will step out voluntarily and
| leave the country to the Macedonian
! survivors. They have selected the
/ frontier districts for these final oper-
atoms so that Europe may hear the
| despairing cries of the dying nation,
\ which the Turks wound ctifIa