The Irish standard., 1903-10-03
DON'T LIKE Them.
Withdrawal of American Vessels
from Beirut Is Asked by
the Porte.

Constantinople, Sept. 26.-The porte
has expressed wish for the withdrawal
of the American warships now off
Beirut, $50 that the settlement Of the
questions pending between the United
States and Turkey can be proceeded
with" 1t is thought here that the
United States will not consent to with
draw her ships. Minister Leishman has
arranged for a conference with the for
eign minister, Tewfik Pasha.
Washington, Sept. .2S.-Withdrawal of
the American warships from Beirut
seems unlikely for the present, in view
of cablegram received at the state de-
partment Saturday from Minister Leish-
man, at Constantinople, stating that al
though his advices from Beirut indi-
cate that the situation is quiet just now,
nothing like permanent order has been
established. Mr.. Leishman says that the
state of affairs there may yet be regard
ed as uncertain.
Monastir, Macedonia, Thursday, Sept.
"a (via Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 29).--It is
estimated that $4,000 villagers of the vii
ayet of Monastir are now refugees in the
mountains, and mostly in terribly des-
titute condition. They escaped from the
Ill villages which have been wholly or
partially burned by the Turks, which
contained 1882 houses, of which 96Ss
were burned. At Malkotirnovo only a
hundred Bulgarian families remain, out
of 1900. A body of 200 families, fleeing
towards Bulgaria from villages in the
Losengrad district, were surrounded by
Turkish troops in the Uzumbadjak
mountains, and all of them are alleged to
have been slaughtered.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 29.-The situa-
tion here is much brighter and the war
clouds appear to have lifted. The portes
assurance that the 80 battalions recently
ordered to proceed from Monastir to
Adrianople will not be moved has les
sened the apprehensions of the Bulgarian
government. Further satisfaction is de-
rived from the fact that M. Natohovitch
is going to Constantinople in the capacity
of Bulgarian diplomatic agent. He con-
Quoted the negotiations with the porte
last June, and after their failure returned
to Sofia.
Burgas, Bulgaria, Sept. 30. Dis
patches received here from the insurgent
Chief Gerdjikoff, who has been conduct
ing operations in the Kirklisse district,
announce that the Turkish troops have
been withdrawn from Zabernovo, Kar-
lovo and Gralaticoco, three points on the
Turkish frontier. 1t is understood that
this movement was in accordance with
the request of the Bulgarian government
that Turkey withdraw her troops from
the frontier, as sign of the sincerity of
her pacific declarations. The positions
vacated by the Turks are now occupied
by insurgents.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 30.-A telegram
received here from the camp of Gen.
Zontcheff, the commander in chief of
the Macedonian insurgents at Razlog
(55 miles from Sofa), announces that a
general rising was proclaimed Septem-
ber q in the districts of Razlog, Nevro-
kop, Demirhissar, Melnik and Seres, and
that all the insurgent bands in eastern
Macedonia had received orders to begin
operations. The chief hope of the rev.
olutionary organization now centers in
the outbreak in eastern Macedonia,
which is expected to assume consider
able proportions, as the leaders there
are all officers of the Bulgarian reserve.
This the sympathizers with the Mace
donian cause hope, will arouse war
feeling in the Bulgarian army and force
the government to espouse the Mace
donian cause.