The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-17
Bulgaria Presents to Powers
Fearful Record Of Atrocities
Of Turkey.
VICTIMS ARE TORTURED
WITH BLAZING IRONS
Wholesale Massaores, Individual
Murders, Rapine, Pillage and
Incendiarism Are Reported.
Many Women Among
the Victims.

Sofa, Bulgaria. August 1.-THE Bull
Earian government has presented a mems
-anduu1 to the powers setting on; at
great length the condition Of affairs
during the past three months in Mace
donia since the Turkish government I'm
dertook to inaugurate the promised re-
forms. The most precise details. dates.
places and names Of persons are given
IN the memorandum. the whole consti-
tutins terrible category Of murder,
torture, incendiarisnl. pinage. and gen
eral oppression committed by Ottoman
soldiers and officials These particulars
were obtained entirely from Official
sources. such as the reports Of the Bull
sarian consuls and agents OF The Bulga-
Iian government and in many instances.
the reports made BY Turkish authorities.
The Bulgarian government guarantees
the absolute truth OF every statement and
challenges the porte 70 disprove 4 single
charge made in the memorandum which
begins by stating that during the past
three months the Ottoman government
has taken q series q measures with the
alleged intention of inauguTaUng era Of
promised reform and of assuring peace
and tranquility - the Bulgarian popula-
ton II European Turkey, but which have
had the contrary effect Of further eX-
aspera ting this population ana TeNivins
the revolutionary movement Instead q
proceeding solely against persons guilty
OF breaches Of the public order. the mil
ttary and civil authorities have sought
every possible pretext to persecute, Ter
rorize and ruin the Bulgarian inhabitants.
alike in the large cities and II the small
villages.
Wholesale Massa cres.
Wholesale r1assacres, individual muir
ders, the destruction Of villages, the pill
laying and setting fire 10 houses. the ar
rests Entertainment. tortuTes, arbitrary i'm
prisonrnent and Punishment, the closing
and 6lsorean;zine Of churches and
schools. the running Of merchants, the
aQJlectian Of, - yes fur MANY years in
DUN. are among the acts Of the Ottoman
administration Of the yilayets OF Saionlca'
Monastir, UsRub and ArTianopie
The memorandum next relates II &C.
tail a number Of such cases n each VII
laee Beginning with the vilayet CT sa-
lortca. i. states that in the town Of Sa-
lonica the Bulgarian professors a the
university. the students and shop keep
in the city, have been cast Into prison
one hundred and twenty soldiers entered
me village Of Gorna Ribnitaa May 49,
and tortured 10 death five man ano TWO
women During The first three weeks OF
July twenty-five villages in the district
Of T!kvesch were subjected 70 the depTe-
datiors Of the Turkish soldiers ana bas2l-
Bazouks The villagers were beaten aro
tortured, the women violated and the
houses plundered while the adnllnls'Ta-
tive authorities looked on
In the viIayet Of Monastir. artillery
lombard and RACED the Aourishing town
Of su7erdesch the 800 houses being left
heap az ruins At the beginning Of July
two Greek bands with the oonniVanoe Of
the authorities, piIaged bulgarian VII
lsges and murdered many q theiT IN
habitauts
In the vilayet Of Jskub, the entire Bul-
earian population has been systeIna teal
IL prosecuted since last May TIE diTec-
tor Of this normal school st Cskuh was
imprisoned because his library contained
the .xevolutionary" Nsrks ct ~otheI-o"
and Les Miseraoles
Tortured with Redhot Irons.
In the districts Of Palanka. Kosohani,
kournanovo and Costigari tae prisons are
FLEA with Bulgarian priests. school mas
ters and merchants. During june the sol
jiers and Rashi- Baz ouks teTrorized the
Inhabitants Of the Schut district, toTtur-
ING the people with red hot irons. Sini-
lar atrocities perpetrated in the Vilayet
Of Adrianople are cited
Altogether. the memorandum gives par
t;ct,lars Of no less than 49, individual and
general cases OF excuses and outrages
committed by the Turkish authorities
In summarizing the specific details OF
ire outrages mentioned. the nemoTan-
dur, declares that wholesale nassacres
we're penetrated by regulars and Bashi-
Bazo,1ks in the town Of Salonioa and the
,.l5eres Of Balde~o Banitza. Techourii-
ovo Karbinza, Moshila, Smerdezch and
Foidie. while the scene Of carnage, pill
1aee and incendiarisnl were everywhere
terrible.
a. snerdesch ove1 TWO hundred Bull
esr,ans were shot, killed with swords
~ burned 10 death. over 25d houses and
4bs churches and schools were set on
rre with petroleum and pinaged, the
,,-one-ty being sold BY the soldiers and
peebi-Raaouks in neighhoT1ng pla aces.
s,r,ila- scenes occurred al the villages
~ co-1a Ribnitza, Igoumenetz. Dobrilaki
er5 MiRoden. The villagers there ADAM
800 their homes and fled to the noun
tains. - -
over three thousand men, women and
on5,5-e-, fed from the San Jak Of Sores,
80, more from the San Jak Of Kirk
- * difficult. says the memorandum, to
oh+ain the exact number Of Bulsarians