New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-18
MACEDONIA CALLS: COME AND HELP usr'

Nount Lebanon, y. Y. June u, 1908.
MACEDONIA CALLS: COME AND HELP Us.'
, Dear Reader; Allow me to appeal to you in be-
ers in Macedonia
cou9try is IA revolt against barbarism, and blood
IS flowing like river. The unfortunate Mace
an atr9cious enemy, and ali Europe looks on with
unconcern while the weak being crushed by
women aged men and children resound through
me mn1 t country s4ch as have succeeded In
the forests and among the mountains, without food
with their suffering kinsfolk across the frontier.
She has not forgotten. nor she ever forget her
own period of Lnartyrdom under the hands or the
blood stained Turk. But though the Bulgarians
are dong their utmost 10 help the refugees. they
and ever increasing distress. In Macedonia Inassa
daily occurrence; children are burned alive and
hacked in pieces; women are violated, and men
Only few days ago battalion Of Turkish soldiers.
45deTed to krat3Do on entering the town sacked
thing. The victims hastened to the KaIrnakam and
but that functonary reused alleging as pre-
text his fear Of offending the soldiers who, he sad
would disperse quietly Such is Turkish govern
The Bulgarian Government has addressed a note
renee and inviting them to draw the attention of
If mieaTia to restrain tbs 4facedonia1s as their
goods are being pillaged by the Turkish troops
Numerous cases of brutality WORTHY Of devils
have been confirmed a hospital doctor in Mace
donfa relates that a woman had nails driven into
her skull had the joints OF his hands and
feet torn asunder. Another had his tongue pulled
out with hot pincers. Little children were dashed
from upper windows into the street below. The
corpse OF a baby found which had been torn
IN two These but a few examples or the
scenes enacted day by day.
The Macedonian leader. Michailowsky. writes 10
=,
''Folowing their. usual sanguinary tactics. the
Turks are organizing massacres at Salonica and
elsewhere They make the and children
eXpiate the crime of the men-the crime Of aspir-
ing 10 be free The victims can be counted by
thousands In the Of cyilZa ton, in the name
of universal brotherhood and justice, we beg or
YOU TO help the unhappy Macedonians, who are
destined TO determination by the followers OF
Islam $3.50. /.
The distress even at present. is very, great; 1t
must eventually become much greater. We In Eng
land are endeavoring to organize relief fund, with
which. as soon ii has reached sufncently re-
spectacle proportions. l shall proceed at my own
refugees are congregated) and arrange for its dis
tributon on the spot You, dear reader are kindly
invited to assist. either with contribution or ser
vice and 10 communicate with either the unoer-
GTav No Seas Twenty-second-st., San Francisco.
We are our brothers (and our sisters Keepers.
and those fn whom the love for humanity CLOVIS
Will come forward now and help them so far as lies
If we hear counter reports Of Macedonian out
aees - we should remember that such lawlessness
Is hut logical result Of Turkish mtsrue, and the
effect Of desperation on people cruShed oy ih1'iS
wears OF intolerable oppression
In any case Il is not the perpetrators of deeds
of violence that will benefit by our EFFORTS and
sacrtfices but helpless women and children and
totterng old men. - =. III.
Earnestly expecting hearty response to this
aPPN- ' " ARNOLD DE Isle,
Editor of 1.-The Banner of Peace.
Netherton. Dudley, Worcester. England June i