The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-13
EHvOYFROM MACEDONIA
DR.. Shoomkoff Tells Why His
Countrymen Are Fighting.
BRUTALITY OF TURKS PICTURED.


picious OF HIS shadow and WIN
Not Fight AIen-Handaomestyy women
Carried oR-The Rest, with che
Children and old Persons, Are
slaughtered.
Sent as a special envoy to create SYM
patty for the insurgents in the Bal
kans, DR.. S. ]. shoomkon Of the Mace
DOMAIN benevolent committee Of Sofia,
who recently arrived at New York on
the Deutschland from Southampton,
has gone to confer with the president
Of the University Of Pennsylvania on
the methods Of raising funds and Great
ing interest in the distress of his peo-
pie, says the New York Press.
Dr. shoomkoff Is a graduate Of the
department Of philosophy Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and is also a
graduate Of Chicago university. In all
he spent fifteen years in the two uni
yersities. Then he returned TO his
home in Salonika to join the uprising
now In progress.
"The extent of the horror Of Turkish
warfare" he said. cannot be con
ceived in this country.
THE Turks will not fight the men.
but they go into isolated villages when
the men are away with the insurgent
bands, lay waste whole villages, carry
the handsomest women into the harems
Of the generals and murder the rest,
together with all Of the Christian chill
dren. Then the towns are burned to
the ground.
Americans cannot conceive of this
kind Of warfare. But all Europe knows
1t. The sickening stencil Of the MUIR
ders arises from the plains of Mace
donia to the nostrils of all civilized
Europe. But they will do nothing.
They are used to the stencil. And our
blood runs in torrents, but no one
cares"
I'VE have waited for twenty-five
years since the treaty Of Berlin for the
Inauguration Of the reforms and for
the establishment. of the home rule
that were promised by II. Instead
we have been made the slaves of the
urk-disfranchised in every court,
our women taken ruthlessly from our
homes, our goods and our lives placed
absolutely at the mercy Of those who
are merciful only when they kill. |
ask the American people if they could
have stood this for twenty-five years?
Bulgaria is filed with the few wo-
men and children who escaped. and in
our hiding places we have in bands of
100, 200, 500, men who feed on what
they can find, who sleep on the ground.
carry no camp baggage, excepting their
rifles and hand bombs filed with dyna-
mite.
Scouts are stationed all through the
country. We have every patriot in the
country who lives In the larger towns
under a tax according to his ability to
pay. This fund supplies us with arms
and ammunition
-Today in Macedonia the Turk is
suspicious of his shadow. He goes
abroad only in midday and in fore.
and not to fight. but to murder the wo-
men and children in some little village
that has been left unprotected through
operations carried on at a distance.
The actions of the Turkish soldiery in
such attacks are those Of incarnate
tends. From the time the attack be-
gins until the last woman and child is
dead and the village in flames the sol
dlers are uncontrolled by anything ex
cept their fury. Their officers cunld
not restrain them If they would. Dis
cipline is unknown. The soldiers are
without pay and find 1t as they go.
1T may seem strange to say we are
not trying to form government in
Macedonia. But such is the fact Our
warfare is conducted simply with a
view to force Bulgaria to fight Turkey,
Her people are doing 1t with food, re-
cruits, arms and funds, but her gov
eminent has stood like the rest OF the
pSwers and booked alphabetically on at
the tragedies without lifting a finger
officially to aid us.
%The real organizer OF the revolution
is Dr. Tatarchef. For his activity In
organizing the men Of Macedonia he
was exiled at one time, but when he
secured enough men be returned and
headed them himself. His little band
was the nucleus OF the present insur-
gent force. Today he directs every
thing in connection with the Sofia com
mittee, the benevolent Macedonia COM
mittee, composed of Professors Geor-
gef, Militich. Agoura, Radoff and !
Karayovoff.
Il expect to present myself for audi
ence with President Roosevelt soon,
and then I will have a chance to beg |
for the aid we need for our refugees
now in Bulgaria. There are thousands
of them there, The winter is coming on,
and they have nothing to live upon.
The Turks have stripped them OF ey-
erything. If aid does not reach them
they viii starve to death. But they
would do it contentedly If they knew
the fighting men had plenty Of ammu-
milton.
Il hope to get some Of the public
spirited men in this country to organ
lie committees to raise funds for our
people. do not wish to touch the
money. / would be more than glad If
they would appoint a committee to
carry the funds across and distribute i