Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-17

adopted measures to ruin the traders
elsewhere. The governor of Monastir
issued an order April % ~forbidding
BulgarlanS to go abroad or ever to
Constantinople. This order was inter-
preted to prevent Bulgarians going to
any large city and forcing them to deal
only with Turkish merchants, who
would gradually ruin and supplant
them. The provincial administration
employed every possible means to in
stall Mussulmans in the Bulgarian vii
lagos. On the slightest pretext the Bull
garians were forced to sell their lands
to the Turks at any price the latter
chose to pay. Burdened with taxes,
liable to perform statute labor for the
Turkish landowners, the population is
reduced to q state of serfdom. This is
n of the principal causes of discon-
tent, and when is added the exactions
Of the tax gatherers II is not difficult to
understand why the wretched people
should revolt from such a despotic gov
eminent and servitude. =
mot long ago the porte denounced
the revolutionary movement as being
fomented by Bulgaria and tried to put
the responsibility on this principality.
Today 1t must acknowledge that it is
it's bad administration which is the on
ly cause of the trouble. From sad ex-
p~erience the porte must learn that sys-
tematic persecution, cruel injustice and
bloody repression do not restore order
and peace in a country. By these acts
the Ottoman administration can be
judged. What must be the result Of all
this? Tired of waiting the fulhllment
Of promises of better conditions and
driven to despair, the Bulgarian popu-
lation have thrown themselves into a
revolution which is now spreading far
and wide.
The British ambassador has called
the attention of the porte to the serious
situation in Macedonia. He pointed
out that grave consequences may at
tend fresh murders of consuls or for
eign subjects.
The recapture Of the town Of Krus-
hevo was effected by three Turkish
columns operating from different
points. The bombardment by the Turk
ish artillery exploded a number Of dy-
Mantle mines behind the rebel in
trenchments, causing considerable dam
age. The insurgents then retired to the
mountains, where the fighting con-
tinues. A large number of insurgents
took refuge in the church Of the town.
and the Turkish military commandant
asked Constantinople for permission to
lombard the church. In reply he was
instructed not to lombard 1t, but to
accept the surrender Of the insurgents.
Negotiations to this end are now pro-
ceeding.
In the fighting around Perlepe 100 in
surgents were killed, and the inhabit-
ants of 100 Bulgarian villages have
surrendered their arms and have been
pardoned. A dozen villages In the
neighborhood of Perlepe have been oc-
cupied by troops.
The porte denies the report that 1t
has armed 5000 Mussulmans in the
vilayet Of Uskub.
According to reports General Zon-
chef, the president of the Macedonian
committee, who was arrested by the
Bulgarian police near the Macedonian
frontier, has escaped from Bulgaria
into Macedonia.
The instruction In the Balkans is
spreading and daily gaining ground.
The headquarters of the revolutionary
forces is the high plateau of Baba Pc
lister, which Is considered the key to
the vilayet Of Monastir, and the in
surgents are strongly posted at all the
strategical points ON the roads leading
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