The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-26

cided to call out 50 fresh battalions of
reliefs from Asia Minor.
PREPARING FOR MOBILIZATION.
Bucharest, Roumanla, aug. %
The Bulgarian and Greek subjects
residing in Roumania have been Or
dered by their respective governments
to return to their homes without de-
lay in order to be ready for mobiliza-
tiou.
Sofa, Aug. 24.-Reports from Mon
astir, authenticated by the Russian
and Austrian consuls, give horrifying
details of the massaces and atrocltles.
At the village of Armensko the Turks
destroyed $50 houses out Of total of
157, and massacred every man, woman
and child. The women were subjected
to the most terrible atrocities by the
soldiers. Eighty revolutionaries, cap
tured at Krushevo, who were sent IN
the direction of Monastir in chains,
were slaughtered by their guards.
The sanitary conditions of krushevo
are described as revolving. The dead
are lying in the streets, stripped OF
every garment, the Turks even taking
the vestments off the body of priest.
BULGARIANs VERSUS TURKS.
salonica, Aug 23.-An insurgent
movement is afoot in the vilayet of
Salonica 1t is feared that it threa-
tens Vodena, (forty-six miles from
here, Salonica and other towns.
Well Informed persons here share in
the general disquietude. Large bands
are reported to have been organized by
Bulgarians, who. it is expected, at
given signal, may resort to general In
cendiarism. The Turkish population
is resolved should great disturbances
occur to exterminate all the Bulgarians
in this city. Consequently number
of Bulgarian residents are leaving
Salonica.
With the rumors of massacres and
the murder of prisoners in Monastir
now authenticated, the general situa-
tion is considerd fast becoming in
tolerable. Official and diplomatic cir
cles alike are concerned, having every
reason to fear that only part Of the
horrors enacted in the interior of
Macedonia have come to light as yet.
The revolutionary committee are do
ing their utmost to force the hands
Of the Bulgarian Government, and the
immediate outlook is exceedingly serl-
Gus.
It appears that the Turks have OBJ
tained the upper hand in the vilayet
of Monastir, and the insurgents are
planning to remove the centre of their
activity close to the Bulgarian
frontiers. Dispatches arriving today
from the disturbed area are exceed
inly gloomy. From Adrianople comes
the news of Turkish defeat and the
extension of the revolutionry out
break; from Monastir the news Of
Turkish. victories, accompanied by
barbarous excesses.
While many of the reports remain
| without confirmation, sufficient auth
entic details are forthcoming to cause
the authorities the greatest anxiety.
According to the Sofa Dnevnlk the
Turks committed unspeakable atroci-
ties at Krushevo.
The mutilated corpses of ninety We
men and children were found in one
building pieces of the bodies had been
thrown into the street. Fifteen Of
the principal merchants OF the town
we're killed and their heads exhibited
on poles at Monastir.
At Monastir the churches were de-
molished, the houses sacked and the
town is now in a heap of ashes. The
| populace fed to the hills, where they
are in starving condition
The Dnevnik also asserts that a gen.
eral massacre has taken place in the
whole vilayet of Monastir. Nearly all
of the villages have been destroyd. The
treacherous murder Of eighty insur-
gents prisoners by their guards near
| Monastir has made an especially bad
impression here.
Many rumors are current Of mas
sacres in the city of Adrianople, but
confirmation is lacking. The situation
there, however, undoubtedly is seri-
| Gus The population is afraid to leave
the houses. The prisons are full and
the vail mas taken private houses to
be used as iails. When the Russian
consul protested at the situation the
vail is reported to have answered that
he was powerless against the fanaticai
! populaGlOn.
BULGAR1ANs BLOW UP INIADA.
Vienna, Aug. 2A-The Neue Freie
Press's Constantinople correspondent
telegraphs that band of sBulgarians
has attacked the Turkish town Of
Urgas, south Of Iniada, on the east of
Turkey, and have blown up the Gov
| ernment buildings with dynamite. 1t
is reported that two hundred persons
were killed.
MAsSACRES IN % VILLAGES.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 24.-The Turks
are reported to have massacred all the
women and children in twenty-five
villages of the districts of Florina and
Monastir, and to have afterwards
burned the villages. They are also
alleged to have killed a number of
prisoners.
MASSACRE IN ADRIANoPLE.
Sofia, Aug. 24.-Travellers who ar
rived here this evening from Adrian
ople, state that a massacre of Chris