Arizona republican., 1903-08-25
Comes From the Scene of Macedonian InSurreCtiOn
THE UNSPEAkABLE TURK
Is Engaged in the Commission of Un- Speakable Cruelties-The Massacre at nonastir-Everythin Tends To- ward the Forcing of Bulgaria Into the Conflict.

Sofia, Aug. 24.-With the rumorS of massacres and the murder of prisoners in Monastr now authenticated, the general situation is considered here as fast becoming -intolerable. Official and diplomatic circles alike are concerned and have every reason to fear that only part of the horrors enacted in the interior of Macedonia have come to light as yet. The revolutionary cCun- tries are doing their utmost to force the hands of the Bulgarian govern ment. and the immediate outlook is eX- ceedingly serious. II appears that the Turks have obtained the upper hand in the vilayet of Monastir. and the in surgents are planning to remove the center of their activity close to the Bulgarian frontiers.
 Dispatches arriving today from the disturbed area are exceedingly gloomy. From Adrianople comes the news of Turkish defeat and the extension of the revolutionary outbreak from Mon astir The news of Turkish victories is accompanied by barbarous excesses. While many of the reports remain without confirmation, sufficient autheA- tic details are forthcoming to cause the authorities the gravest anxiety. Ac- cording to the Sofia Dnevnik, the Turks committed unSpeakable atrocities al krushevo.
 The mutilated corpses of women and children were found in one building. Pieces of the bodies had been thrown into the street. Fifteen of the princi- pal merchants of the town were killed and their heads exhibited on poles.
 At Monastir the churches were de- moiished. the houses sacked and the town is now a heap of ashes. The populace fled to the hills. where they are in a. starving condition. The Dnevnik also asserts that q general massacre has taken place in the whole vilayet of Monastir. Nearly all the villages have been destroyed. The treacherous murder of eighty insurgent prisoners by their guards has made an especially bad impression here.
 Many rumors are current of masSa cres in the city of Aorianople, but con hrmation is lacking The situation there, however, undoubtedly is serious. The population is afraid to leave their houses The prisons are full. and the Vali has taken private houses to be used as jails. When he Russian consul pro- tested at the situation. the vali is re- ported to have answered that he was powerless against the fanatical popu- lation.
 Sofia. Aug, 24.-Anarchy exists at Losengrad. Fighting is proceeding everywhere in the neighborhood. In- surgent bands have occupied the state gic points around Malkoterneveo. Eight villag to the north of Losengrad have been burned by Bashi Bazouks. The insurgents attacked two Turkish posses in the vicinity of the same town and killed the entire garrisons consist ing of fifty soldiers and one officer At Algomic sixty insurgents engaged in fighting with 900 Bashi BaZouks- The result is not known. The town oi Bunar Hissar has been burned and part of the Bulgarian population was massacred. The rest of the Bulgariars fled to the mountains. At Burgas Ma jura after eighteen hours of fighting the garrison was killed by the rebels who also destroyed the garrisons of Silklihor and Kalovo. At kaicunvo the insurgents killed ffty-seven Turks and fifteen Were killed al Kukolibi. in the vilayet of Uskub. New outbreaks are reported from the vicinity of Kresna where serious fighting has occurred.
 The Macedonian. organizations in Sofia and throughout Bulgaria are busily planning to help their brothers across the border. It is feared that the IiEal nave buried differences and are now working in harmony, confident that the rich Bull garians. who have hitherto withheld their contributions on account of the committees dissersions. will now give literally.
 The Macedonian leaders admit that the insurrection in the vilayet oi Mon astir is practically at an end and they appear to pin their hopes on the trans fer of active operations to the territory near the Bulgarian frontier Within three weeks, they assert, eastern Ma cedonia will be in full revolt and then the Bulgarian government will be forced to take action.
 Travellers who arrived here this after noon from Adrianople state that d massacre of Christians occurred there on Sunday morning. One version says the guns in one of the forts opened fire on an insurgent band which had at tackled a military outpost. A panic followed inside the town and the Mo hammedan population fell upon the Christians.
 According to another version q Turk ish officer tried to force an entrance into a Bulgarian house in order to modest the inmates. The latter resisted whereupon the Mohammedans became excited and a band of soldiers and Rashi Bazouks attacked the Bulgarian quarter of the town. It is rumored that the foreign cOnsuls addressed en- ergetic protests to the vali, who de- clared his inability to check the fanat- icism of the Mussulmans.
 SALONICA THREATENED.
 Salonica, Aug. 23 (Sunday).-The in-