The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-11
Matters That Are Closely Al
lied with Bulgarian Troubles.
0ND0N WRITER EXPLAINS
Has Visited the District and
Understands Situation.

II Is still fashionable even in EnzlanI
10 repeat the ccIafo- table Turkish tileo-y
mat The &-cedCIlan rs 5eIlioa IS IA arti-
iieiai agitation. j. is Irue that Iebels are
made. not born LIT il IS The turks who
make them
Three months aso I vas IN Monas,ir.
There was then 10 rebellion The peas
ants who today are il tie Mills with
arms in their hands were then sg0lEin-
in their feds with ali the stolid Industry
OF taeir race. There were. it is true a
few small BANDS Of hunted outlaws VINO
wandered Owe he country. hiding where
they could and lighting only when they
We're SURROUNDED But these rarely num-
bered more than a score q rnea apiece.
2 he peasants may have Helped them, Jut
as yet they did flos Join thela IT was
the Turk who played recruiting sergeant.
one evening WhilA, / was in Monascir
there cane a sound Of cannon from tie
plain tiat stretched Westward. ana 40
wards nlekt9aI from tire roofs OF The
/ town couid Ice seen The smoke Of q burn
F.ng village. Next morning. lodging the
Turks IS best We could, ,se set oat f1r
the place-Siosilla. some seven miles
away, an OMNIBUS name which means
tomb. As Ne reached it W met he
troops retuIni1g-rag st-acglia- bat
talions- Their officers had lef5 them u
their own devices and they we're Iooting
BY the roadside They told rs their
version or what had happened. a rowing
insurgent band, eleven men al told. he'd
ve1turel into The village. Sc9e SPY had
Uniformed the Turks, and the band was
SURROUNDED in two houses. The Turks did /
nothing rash. They sent for -a7e hundred .
men and mountain gun, ard then. from F..
behind the safety of the mud walls which T.
SURROUNDED tie two cottages. they set 10
work. Their fcsil.ade had no decisive
effect, but as riglt came or a lucky shot I
from the Iiltie canon SIT the bowels on
fire. The rebels fought b-ave1y-even the +
Turks admitted IL They danced p Wild .
dance # death hand-in-hand. before they
dashed through the flames, They sang
Z song of defiance to tho Turks: You /
are The slaves Of an assassin Sultan. Iut
Ne Al least are free nea, You may slay
Us. hu- We would not change our lot with
your, Thrice they sailed oct. but be-
fore dawn aH was over. on the spot all +.
Wa clear. The rebels had Simply been
caught in a trap The cottages SIHI .
smoidered. ON wall hard by stood a
stork preeuiuE lis wings. n dead pig
lag amid tie havoc, its young sui play
Ing around f. But there amid the tsaul<
pied grass were the pools OF blood Where
one man after TIE other had fallen =
dozen yards away was the mud wall with
loophoies ia It. through which The Forks
had fired iato that fatal eaclesu
it mist have been massacre rather
than a skirnish There had been no Of
t. OF quarter. To SUMMONS TO surrender;
pc 0ve hundred mon behind the vaH lad
IMPLY shot down the eleven men In the
eld. as they mieht have shot rats in a
barn. But were none of them wounGeJ2
Shat difficulty was also cleared u7. out
Side The churchyard quarter OF a mile
away. stood q couple oe wagons. in one of .
them lag heap Of r7utiiatod flesh, uh,eh
once was eleven men The peasants were
stoliiiv carrying thcm one by one 90 tie
pits they had dus for them Some Here
no more than cl5uci earica ures OF
nen. They HAD been wounded IN the
houses ana burned alive. the others hore
their history more visiey upon hem hey
were Iid5led not only with 9e wounds.
but Win Dazoret TRUSTS while some OF
them had ear.ns he'zs I'm head or chest
wlich must have been made by q rlEa
at roint UaaE range The iafererce
seemed fairly Obvious. They had Ie2n
wounded from "A distance. finished oC ~
close quarters. AMI then. dishoecred t.
satisfy The savage malice of some bashi-
hszouks, Eut these ,ea is. who. after I'll.
had dehed TuIl1zh ruie. were not the
only victims. Ia the other cart las a