The San Francisco call., 1903-09-12
Terrible Atrocities
PraCticed by
Turks.

- OFIA, Sept. 1.-THE revolutionary
headquarters here has received
~ from Burgass news of fearful
atrocities committed by the Turkish and
Albanian soldiers in the vilayet of Adri-
anople. A squadron of Turkish cavalry
intercepted and slaughtered fugitives at
tempting to cross into Bulgaria. Sixty
Bulgarians were killed within three kilo-
metres of the frontier. The whole dis
trict of Losengrad is filled with Albanian
troops, who are burning villages and
massacring the inhabitants. They have
killed fifty persons and have slain fifteen
others in the village of Kula, twenty
two old people in the village of Ekleer,
eighteen families at Taspata and twenty
families at Asmidigik.
Eighty families fleeing from various vii
lages toward the frontier have been lit
orally cut to pieces by Turkish soldiers
during the last few days. Hundreds of
old men, women and children from the
district Of Losengrad have crossed the
frontier
A large body of infantry and cavalry,
with three mountain batteries, attacked
an insurgent band in the mountains about
Nasiliko. The insurgents waited the near
approach of the troops and then hurled
bombs at them. After two hours fight
ing the Turks were forced to retire, with
the loss of twenty men killed and many
forces was light.
The first indication Of the Greeks aid
ing the Bulgarians against Turkey ap-
pears IN circular addressed by the gen
eral staff of the eighth revolutionary dis
trict to the Greek towns and villages in
the vilayet Of Adrianople. 1t expresses
pleasure at hearing that the Greeks de-
sire to join their Bulgarian brethren in
the fight for liberty, and invites the
Greeks to send delegates to formulate
plans for joint action. The mixed popu-
lation of Greeks and Bulgarians in fif-
teen villages of the district of Kostur
have joined the insurrection.
Further details of the village burnings
and massacres committed in the vilayet
of Monastir have been reported here from
reliable sources at Salonica. The names
are given Of thirty-four villages in the
Kaza and Okrida districts which have
been burned by the TurksA
At Vegoshto near OrtaEel. twelve men
and women perished in the flames Sixty
peasants were killed in this neighborhood.
most Of the bodies being left unburied
Nine villages and a large forest have been
burned in the Kaza of Allen. At Podmo-
chani and Pokovionik many women and
children were killed.
In the Kaza of Presba the soldiers sur
rounded a forest in which the women and
children from the villages of Louboino
lated the women and put many Of them to
death. The monastery of st. Colin in the
Kaza Of Valay has been plundered. The
town of Klissura is filled with refugees
from the burned villages in the district,
including many wounded women from the
neighborhood of Klissura and Neveska.
The large number of bodies lying unburied
and decomposir1e has caused an epidemic
among the Turkish troops. from which
many have died.
Reports are beginning to arrive from
Adrlanople which indicate that the Turks
are employing similar measures to sup
press the outbreak in the vilayet as have
been used in Monastir, and it is feared
that when the Asiatic troops reach the
district even more appalling atrocities will
be committed.
kilograms from Budapest announce
that the Austrian Government has
stopped the transport of 15.OOO.oOO Mann
licher rife cartridges which Bulgaria
contracted for in Hungary.
II appears that the cartridge firm is
unable to complete the order in the speci-
fed time and borrowed cartridges from
the Government magazine, with the re-
suit that the officials stopped the delivery
of them.
The insurrection in Eastern Macedonia
is progressing slowly General Zontcheff
has been engaged in three skirnishes
with the Turks in the district of Djimoua
The insurgents fought a band of Bashi
Bazouks between Popida and Varitisch,
in the district Of Walls. The Bashi Ba-
zouks lost eighty men. Next day the reg
ular troops pursued the insurgents into a
forest, but fell into an ambuscade, in
which many of them perished
Many of the inhabitants of Monastir
and in the village Of Dobrokavi were
killed by Turkish artillery.