Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-18
HUMAN SLAUGHTER GOES ON.
5000 CHRISTIANS IN MACEDONIA
MURDERED BY TURKS.
Government VIII Be Forced to MobiI.
lie for War-such earbarIsm Never
Before seen-sultan Has over So,
600 Soldiers on Bulgarian Frontier
One Engagement Reported.

soma, bulgaria, sept. 14.-Wltn the
arrival of new and sensational and
wholesale massacre of Christians in
Macedonia, the situation here is hour
| ly becoming more alarming. If the
latest messages, which state that 5000
Bulgarians have been slaughtered in
the districts Of OkhrIua and Leren,
| should be confirmed, no doubt exists
that the government will be forced to
order the mobilization of the army.
according to information brought to
the revolutionary paper Autonomyc,
force of Albanians, assisted by Turk
ish regular forces acting under or
ders direct from the Yildiz Kiosk,
massacred the entire Bulgarian Chris
uan population of the Okhrida and
Leren districts.
Fearful descriptions are given of the
sights there, the soldiers slaughtering
men, women and children in every di-
rection, displaying barbarism never
before witnessed. The number of
killed is not stated In the courier's dis
patch, but according to reports from
other sources, the total number of the
victims will reach 5000.
Official circles are so far without
information regarding the reported
massacre, but in view of the charac.
| ter of the latest advices from Mace
donia, it is feared the news is only too
true. Rumors are current that at a
council of the ministers it was decided
to mobilize Immediately the first and
second army divisions.
This is officially denied, but well in.
formed persons do not doubt that the
caplnet, which is meeting in council
daily, is seriously considering such a
measure.
A deputation of leading professors
and resident professional classes wait
ed on the ministers and urged the gov.
eminent to order immediate mobiliza-
ton. Minister Pretoff said the minis
try was unable to admit OF such a mea-
sure at this time.
The Turkish government is believed
to have at the present moment no less
than $4,000 soldiers in the village ui
Adrianople, large bodies of them with
in 10 to is kilometers of the Bulgarian
frontier. Confronted with such stu.
alton, it is argued that Bulgaria would
be amply justified in moulizing the
first and second army divisions, the
headquarters of which are at Sofia
and Philiopollis, and which comprise
the forces nearest the Turkish from.
tier.
The government appears to be firm
ly resolved to avoid giving Turkey the
slightest pretext for declaring hostili
ties, and is doing its utmost to restrain
the war fever. Sofia and the country
generally are outwardly as calm as in
the most peaceful time, but the Bull
garians say this calm is more to be
feared than at any other time.
An engagement is reported to have
occurred between a force of insur
gents and Turkish troops at Suipindol
in which not single revolutionist was
killed, while the Turks lost heavily.
kilograms from Burgas say the Bull
garian population is fast disappearing
from the district of Losengrad, and
that everyone unable to escape to the
Bulgarian frontier is killed. Five hun
dred fugitives, who have arrived al
Burgas from Tekengea, report that two
men, one 100 years old and the Other
IS, were impaled by the Turks. The
war office here is greatly concerned
over the increasing number of desert
ers who join the insurgents.