Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-14
HELD ON FRONTIER.
Tzoncheff, President Of Mace
DOMAIN Committee, Arrested.
AMERICAN ATTITUDE IS CRITICISED
Insurgents Have Occupied Klisura
and PlssOrdeFe-Eng1and Looked
to For Help as the Pioneer
Land OF Liberty

+. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 14.-General
Tzoncheff, president of the Macedonian
committee, and his friend, Colonel Jan
koff, both of whom are ex-ofhcers in
the Bulgarian army, have been arrest
ed by the Bulga rian police near the
Macedonian frontier under the suspi-
cion that they were on their way to
join the revolutionists. .,
Ali Ria Pasha has been dismissed
from his post as vail of Monastir and
has been exiled to Tripoli 80 q, Il
The pourparlers at Yildez kiosk with
NJ. Zinovieff, the Russian ambassador,
relative to the murder Of M. Rostkov-
ski, the Russian consul at Monastir,
continue. The Turks apparently desire
to avoid the execution of the murderer,
the gendarme named Hahn, while the
Russians insist that he shall be pub
licly executed in ordser to serve as
warning. The Russian embassy also
considers that the indemnity of $4,000
offered to the widew is insufficient.
The insurgents have occupied K1isu-
ra and Pissordere, and the Albanian
rebels have been disastreusly defeated
In the Debyrsko region. At Yenije-i-
Varbar 200 insurgents, helped by 600
well armed peasants, are resisting the
military garrison. a~
The Macedonian leaders have ex-
pressed themselves as greatly disap-
pointed with what they assert is the
distinctly hostile attitude of America
toward their cause as manifested in
the utterances of the press. DR.. Chris
to Tartercleff, one of the presidents of
the central international Macedonian
committee, has stated that his party
was convinced that American newspa-
pers had been bought with Turkish
gold.
There seems to be no other explana-
ton of the tone of their articles" said
he. "They are not only unsympathetic
toward the movement, but decidedly
inimical to it Il is impossible that
such an attitude could arise from ig-
norance of the true state of affairs in
country so intelligent as America,
and it is also difficult to believe that
the impression created by the Miss
Stone affair could have so prejudiced
the American press.
Real, practical Intervention by the
powers only can step the fighting of
the insurgents. Failing in such, the
campaign will be prosecuted to the
bitter end. The band now fighting in
the vflayet of Monastir consists Of
1900 to 10000 men, mostly young and
enthusia site and trained in the use of
arms. Their number could be quadru-
pied were it not that the difficulty Of
feeding such an army renders it's in
crease fnadvisabie.
1.-THE committee lives in daily hope
that the powers will recognize the jus
tice of their cause and intervene. The
friends Of the cause look chiefly to
England as the pioneer land of liberty
to assist them"
The Macedonians in Greece have Pc
titioned. Premier Rail- for permission
to cross the frontier with arms in or
der to join their brethren in Macedo-
mia. NJ Ralh refused to grant the per
mission and counseled them to remain
quiet. -
1t is reported that Turkish troops
destroyed the village of Leskovatz and
fourteen ether places in the district of
! Uskub and that the insurgents have
burned the villages of Nakoketz and
Krani, inhabited by Albanians, and
the Turkish village of Kashani It is
stated that when the insurgents cap
tured the Turkish mail a few days ago
they carried off $125, 900.
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