The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-07
THE DOGS OF WAR
ARE LET LOOSE
THE MACEDON1ANs CALLED TO
RISE AGAINST THE TURKs-AID
FROM THE POWERS HOPED FOR.
Associated Press, Morning Service.

Associated Press, Morning Service.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 6.-The
Macedonian general committee has is
sued a proclamation calling for a gen
eral insurrection against the Turk. The
day set for the uprising is April goth.
This action is based on the ultimatum
of the three powers which was made
public yesterday and the news has had
the effect of creating a feeling that the
spring will bring events of the gravest
Importance.
The proclamation calls upon all the
Macedonians to fly to arms, gives hope
of aid from without and promises that
the leaders of bands now operating In
the mountains, will rendezvous at
point which will be made known later,
where the troops are to be mobilzed.
The committee is most sanguine in its
declarations.
1t is believed here that this call, COM
ing when the people are told that the
three great powers Will intervene IN
the event of the Porte being unable to
enforce peace, will have the effect of
bringing out an army of not less than
600 men. This will tax the energies
of the Turkish commanders now in the
field, and it is reported that there Will
be issued an trade sending 100000 more
men to the western frontier.
SOFIA, April 6.-After three days of
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Turkish forces have been able to drive
back the Macedonian army. The row
ing bands of Macedonians combined
for the struggle, and gave battle before
the city, which called out a great per-
centage of the defending forces of the
Turks, the garrison of the seaport hav-
ing recently received heavy reinforce d.
ments. The Macedonians lost heavily
and were compelled to fall back.
Albanian bands descended upon the
town of Okhrida, situated on the east
banks of the lake of that name, cap
tured it and proceeded to put to the
sword all the Christians. There was
a terrible slaughter, the people de-
Tending themselves as best they could.
The revolutionists sacked the town and
finally burned the Christian section.
The proclamation of the Macedonian
committee was issued from Sofia which
is the headquarters of that body. The
present president of the committee is
Mikhailovsky, by profession a school
master, who took the office two years
ago when Sarafoff left the place.
General Tsoncheff is a major general
in the reserve of the Bulgarian army.
Col. Yankoff recently led a raid into
Macedonia, but met with little support
from the peasants. Sarafoff resigned
his commission in the Bulgarian army
for the purpose of leading an incursion
into Macedonia. He is known as a
blood-thirsty fighter. After separating
from the central organization he was
quiet for a time, but is again at the
front operating about Salonica.
The activity in the region of Salonica
is due to the fact that the rebels would
like to secure that port so as to pre-
vent the landing of troops and their
being dispatched into the interior by
the railroad. This would cut off the
principal means of distribution of men
that is in command of Turkey, as the
other railroad line is extremely vulner-
able.