The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-10
THROUGH MACEDONIA.
Scene Of Revolution Described
BY a Traveller
COUNTRY OF UNREST AND CRIME.

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Roads and old nridges.
In August last | planned a journey /
across Macedonia the scene Of the
present outbreak against the Turkish /
government. and old servia, says Al |
bert Afalet, translated from L'Illusra
ton for the Boston Transcript. Ii
Paris hardly any one encouraged m8
to so. Are you tired Of your life?'
said a friend Of mine who had beer
there the year before Provide your
self with ransom money sus gested
another one. at the foreign Office they
refused me ali letters Of recommenda-
ton to our consuls because they con-
sidered my plan q very dangerous one.
In spite Of al protests, however, /
undertook the journey. and on the "a
Of September | was at Uskub. | had
crossed the valley Of the yardar. had
visited AIonasur pursued my journey
into the very heart OF the mountains to
the lakes OF Prespa and Oehrida, 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 were the only things that cooled
my blood
DO not infer from this that there was
perfect tranquility there and that peo-
pie could 90 around the country as
easily and safely as on the bouleyards
In Paris To begin with, there are
places there which are more inaecess-
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 0chrida, al
though many posts are scattered along
the road. It was in the midst Of a com
pany Of geIFlarmes that / visited the
market square in Stronga. Three weeks
\ before my arrival there seven fisher
men, Bulgarians and Seryians, who
had arrived ON Lake Oehrida, 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 naassacres. en- masse and by
exterminating whole towns and vii
Ilages at single blow Here they are
too near Europe. The cry OF too many
victims butehered at a time may in
splre pity IN the hearts Of the European
nations aud 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
lpowers therein the village of Brema,
the bodies Of four Christian peasants
were found m the woods, their heads
severed and their bodies torn to pieces,
This had been the work Of Albanians.
In the village itself boy Of fifteen
Years, a student in the servian school
lat Uskub, had received two bullets in
the shoulder ana in The chest During
| my sojourn there they operated in the
hospital upon Il small boy of twelve
Years whose knee had been cut open
with d blow from the knife Of i'm Al
bantam for 40 other reason than mere
pleasure. Accurate Observers among
them the consul Of one Of the most
powerful nations who showed me the
Irecords- reckon with certainty that
more than 200 murders were committed
during the first six months Of 1902,
this in the district Of Uslsub alone, in a
stretch Of territory less than Swiss
canton All admit that this number is
not even a nth 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 Sores and Salonika and Mo-
nastir, where the revolutionary commit
tees furnish the pretexts to the au-
thorities to search for arms, which
searches usually result III butcheries
| Such things had happened at Terse
on the 10th Of May last at Rouba Oh
the 10th, at Rakitnitsa on the 10th Of
June and on the 18th and 18th OF June
at Patele and Cerenoyo, 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 M0nastir 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 d
table laden with human heads, horribly
mutilated
OF the three yilayets salonika. Mo-
| nastir and uskub, which comprise Mace
donia, the last one, which IS also called
the yilayet Of Korsovo is historically
and geographically quite distinct from
the other two. 1t faces toward the
north and the Danube and not toward
Salonika and the Mediterranean BY