Evening journal., 1903-09-05
THROUGH MACEDONIA.
Scene Of Revolution Described
by a Traveller.
COUNTRY OF UNREST AND oRIME.

Albert A.aIet Tells of Atrocities
Committed by Turks and Alba
nians-ue Says the Land Ia n RE-
Rion which hight De Rich, but
which Is one of the Poorcst-Bad
Roads ana Ola Bridges.
In August last l planned a journey
across Macedonia, the scene Of the
present outbreak against the Turkish
government and Old servia. says Al
bert Malet translated from LIllustra-
ton for the Boston Transcript. In
Paris hardly any one encouraged mo
to go. Are you tired OF your lifeY'
said a friend Of mine who had been
thero the year before Provide your
self with ransom money" suggested
another one. At the foreign office they
refused me all letters OF recommenda-
tion to our consuls because they con-
sidered my plan a very dangerous one.
In spite OF all protests, however, /
undertook the journey, and on the I'd
Of September l was at Usl1ub. ! had
crossed the valley Of the vardar, had
visited Monastir, pursued my journey
into the very heart Of the mountains to
the lakes OF Prespa and Ochrida, had
gone back to Pristina, reached Prizren,
situated in the midst of Albanian
tribes, and when finally, in October
returned to Paris the Macedonian bed
bugs wero the only things that cooled
my blood.
Do not infer from this that there was
perfect tranquility there and that peo-
pie could go around the country as
easily and safely as on the boulevards
in Paris. To begin with, there are
places there which are more inaccess-
ible than the desert of Tschad, as are
Ipek and Dibra, in the heart Of AL
bania. The Turkish government
thought It necessary TO give me eight
cen gendarmes as an escort to go from
Monastir to the lake Of Ochrida, al
though many posts are scattered along
the road. 1t was In the midst of a COM
pany Of gendarmes that / visited the
market square in Suongn. Three weeks
before my arrival there seven fisher
men, Bulgarians and Servians, who
had arrived on Lake Ochrida, had been
welcomed with a shower Of bullets.
Their boat was riddled with the shot
one Of the men had been killed, while
the other six had been thrown In prison
as conspirators.
There are continual murders commit
ted daily. These have been going on
for the last twenty years not like the
Armenian massacres, en- fnasse and by
exterminatlng whole towns and VII.
/ lagos at q single blow. Here they are
too near Europe. The cry Of too many
victims butchered at time may in
spire pity in the hearts of the EuEopeap
nations and arouse their Indignation.
On this account the Turks here proceed
rather cautiously They kill in detail,
for this makes less noise, and If IN this
way more time IS required the final re-
suit is not the less sure Ten days be-
fore my arrival, not very far from Us
kub-there are consuls of the great
powers therein the village Of Brezna,
the bodies OF four Christian peasants
were found In the woods, their heads
severed and their bodies torn to pieces.
This had been the work of Albanians.
In the village itself a boy of fifteen
years, a student in the Servian school
at Uskub had received two bullets. in
the shoulder and in the chest. During
my sojourn there they operated IN the
hospital upon a small boy Of twelve
years whose knee had been cut open
with a blow from the knife of an AL
banian for no other reason than mere
pleasure. Accurate observers-among
them the consul Of one of the most
powerful nations, who showed me the
records-reckon with certainty that
more than 200 murders were committed
during the first six months of 1902,
this in the district OF Uslxub alone, in
stretch Of territory less than a Swiss
canton. All admit that this number is
not even a fifth OF the actual murders
done.
Mark we'll that this is being done in
a region which is usually rather quiet.
where the revolutionary committees
are unknown. Judge. then, what Is go
ing on farther east, near the Bull
garian frontier, or farther south,
around Seres and Salonika and Mo
nastir, where the revolutionary commit
tees furnish the pretexts TO the au-
thorities to search for AIMS, which
searches usually result in butcheries.
Such things had happened at Tersie
on the 10Th Of May last. at Rouba on
the 29th, at Rakitnltsa on the 10Th Of
June and on the 18th and 18th of June
at Patele and Cerenovo, situated on
the shores Of the beautiful lake Of Os-
rovo. In these places the Turks had
caused the men, young and old, to be
beaten and tortured to death, violated
the women and children and cut of the
heads Of about thirty Christian peas
ants. At Monastir people can buy pho
tographs in which Turkish.gendarmes,
nicely dressed for the occasion with
borrowed clothes). have arranged them
selves with a triumphant air around a
table laden with human heads. horribly
mutilated.
OF the three vilayets. Salonika, No
nastir and Uskub which comprise Mace
donia, the last one, which is also called
the vilayct OF Korsovo. is historically
and geographically quite distinct from
the other two II faces toward the
north and the Danube and not toward
salonika and the Mediterranean. BY
its history and by its population It is
a part Of the state OF Servia. It's clas-
steal name IS Old Serviaf f(Stara Ser0ia).
Here for many years murders have
been committed Of which no one in
] Europe seemed TO be aware.