The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-20
MORE WAR FLEETS TO TURKEY?
powERS LIKELY TO ACT FF con-
DYTIONS DON'T IMPROVE.
c,,,.,,s Forces Making Little Headway I'm
0uelllns the Insurrection I'm Mace
don,a-Fears mt COnstantinOple or
Further Important Demands by Russia.
s,.ctoI cable Dispatches TO THE SUN.


LONDON, Aug 19.-News from south
oas,ern Europe shows that the Turks are
Ealing little progress in quelling the in
o,,rrect ion in their territory. More sig
,;ecant than the reports from the disturbed
l;s,rcts are the orders from both Russia
and Turkey for coal from England, which
are unnracedented Russia has just placed
a., order for a million tons OF steam coal.
r,,rkish agents are also buying extensively.
II s difficult to meet these extra require
,,ert- as the British Navy has also placed
an order for million tons OF Welsh steam
ooal 10 be distributed at the various naval
stations. chiefly at Gibraltar and Malta.
act Monday the cruiser Vindictive and
,ho gurbont Speedy were detached from
40 snuadron of Admiral Domvile, Com
r,order- n-Chief of the Mediterranean sta
ton AT Lagos, and they have arrived at
gibraltar The remainder Of the squadron
jsexpected Immediately
II il understood that all the chief Euro
rom Powers are likely to send warships
~ Turkish waters unless the situation in
Macedonia rapidly improves.
A despatch from Constantinople says
il il believed the vessels will anchor at
Burghas, eighty miles from the entrance
to the Bosphorus.
The despatch asserts that the sending
~ this squadron to Turkish waters has
now created a deep impression among
Turkish officers.
Although even as late as Monday the
fnctionares appeared to treat the move
rnent with indifference, there Is no longer
INV doubt as to the nature of kussia's step.
# is known that the movement Of the squad
ron is intended to support supplementary
demands in connection with the assassina-
tion of NJ Rostkowski the Russian Consul
at Monastir
All of Russia's demands on Turkey are
regarded as acceptable except the stipu-
lation that European officers shall command
the Turkish gendarmerie. This ia liable to
lead 10 difficulties as 1t Ia regarded as be-
ing out Of proportion to the other reforms.
IT is therefore feared that Russia contem-
plates making other and more important
demands 1t is even conceivable that she
will stipulate that Christian Governor shall
be appointed for Macedonia, but diplomats
scout this idea.
Messages received here show that the
Turkish troops are getting out OF hand.
The Bulgarian invaders, while not achiev-
ing definite military successes, are COM
peling their more timid compatriots to
rise Telegraph wires have been cut
everywhere, the railway lines are closed
TO traffic, and outside the limits Of the
armed forts anarchy is supreme.
eL,t khx, oako $50 6a,
Holy Virgin, near Krushevo, where the in
surgents took refuge after their defeat at
Krushevo, has been burned by Albaniana
after a determined struggle with the in
s,Irgents. Both sides lost heavily. 1t ia
reported from Salonica that the Turks have
defeated an insurgent band, killing thirty
of them and are in pursuit of other bands.
At Philipopolis bomb was thrown
at the house of a merchant. Three persons
were killed.
Boris Sarafoff, the head OF the Mace
DOMAIN Revolutionary Committee, has writ
ten letter from Sofia to the managers Of
the Oriental railways, in which he says
that the uprising has for its object the
liberation of the Christian population OF
Macedonia and Adrianople from Turkish
rule. Inc SOHlLllIIco, ue
saws, has decided that outrages will have
to he committed.
MANCHESTER, England, Aug. IA de-
spatch from Berlin to the GudrdiGn says
that the Russian squadron which was re-
Gently ordered to proceed to Turkish waters
will cruise along the Turkish coast only
without approaching the Bosphorus. The
movement of this feet is connected with
the increasingly hostile attitude OF both
Bulgaria and Servia, and is not directed
against Turkey
CoNsrANTINoPLE. Aug. 19.-Consular re-
ports from Salonica state that the situation
there is very critical. The slightest out
rage on the part Of the Bulgarians will pro-
woke an outburst of fanaticism by the
Mussulmans, who are already very much
excited The Consuls have asked that
measures he taken for their protection.
SOFIA, Aug. l9.-According to statements
printed in revolutionary organ published
here, the Macedonian insurgents, after
two failures, dynamited the railway bridge
at Exschesso, thereby nterrupting COM
munication bet Seen Salonica and Monastir.
LONDON, Aug. pa despatch to the
Times from Sofia reports that the Russian
feet is now manpuvring off Jeni Ada,
midway between Burgas and CONSTANT
nople, and about sixty miles north OF the
Bosphorus