The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-11
Or Prince Ferdinand's People Will At
tempt to Stop the Wholesale Mas
sacres i'm Macedonia.
MANY ATROCITIES COMMITTED
TURKS PILLAGING. BURNING. OUT
RAGING AND SLAUGHTERING.
Vail of Beirut Removed and the Turk.
ish Governor General Restoring
Confidence i'm the City.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept 10.-The continued
reports of wholesale massacres of the Bull
earian population and the destruction of
Bulgarian villages i'm Macedonia are caus-
ing considerable excitement in political and
general circles here. Premier Petroff is
said to have informed the representatives
eminent nor the Bulgarian people can wit
ness with indifference the humiliation of the
Bulgarian element in Macedonia and the
devastation of the country, and unless the
powers can find some means of restraining
Turkeys terrible repressive measures, Bull
CARA Will be forced to depart from her
present attitude of strict neutrality. While
the premier's intimation was conveyed in
the course of informal conversation with
the diplomats in Sofia, and in no sense in
tended official communication, it may
be regarded as an indication that the pa
thence of the Bulgarian people is becoming
exhausted.
Every day brings news of fresh massacres
and outrages in Macedonia. The revolu-
tionary organization to-day published elab-
crate statistics giving the names of III vii
lagos burned by the Turkish soldiery, the
number of houses in each, the date of the
incendiarism, and particulars of the num-
Der of persons murdered i'm each case Off,
cial reports arriving here are suspiciously
reticent, but no doubt exists regarding the
terrible barbarities practiced by the Turk
ish regulars and bashi-bazouks on helpless
women and children in Macedonia. The
Sofia government has hitherto withstood all
attempts on the part of the Macedonian
committees to draw Bulgaria into a war
with Turkey, but the condition of affairs
is daily becoming more critical, and the
position of the Ministry more difficult
The official view of the situation continues
pessimistic, but in some other quarters the
belief prevails that the powers will shortly
propose a. new scheme of pacifcation in
Macedonia and thus remove the possibility
of a TurkO- Bulgarian war. Much confidence
is expressed that the approaching visit of
the Car to Vienna will result in the peace
full solution of the difficulty.
kilograms from the frontier indicate ap-
preaching disturbances in northern and
eastern Macedonia. A telegram from Djou-
maia says the rich Turks leaving the
villages in that district, and that the Po-
maks, or Bulgarian MOhammedans, would
follow suit, but do not know where they can
find refuge.
The great forest of Pirh is burning. The
Turks set fire to the for'et in four places,
and the flames are visible at a great dis
lance. Fighting is reported to be taking
place near Melniks, and another fight is
also going in the vilayet of Monastir. At
Bukovit between Kreichevo and Gostva,
the insurgents surprised a body of bashi-
bazouks pillaging the village. The latter
were attacked and many were killed. Near
Midesch, district of KOstur, ii is reported
that a band led by Tohakaloroff has de-
feated a detachment of Turkish troops, who
had about sixty killed. Many wounded
Turks are arriving at Monastir, filling the
hospitals. The population in the district of
Veles is reported to be in a terrible condi-
ton. Nearly all the villages have been
Numbered DESTROYED
women and children were brutally fiogged
by the soldiers and many were killed, the
bashi- zouks leaving the bodies unburied.
The Bulgarian inhabitants of the town of
Veles are terrified, fearing to leave their
houses lest they should be denounced by the
Greek spies and cast into prison.
A telegram from Burgas states that two
thousand Turkish soldiers, with two can
non, have landed near Vasiliko, on the Black
sea, and attacked the town, which is still
occupied by the insurgents.