New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-17
TURKEYS MERCILESS RULE IN MACEDONIA
BULGARIA GIVES TO POWERS H LIST OF THE LAST
THREE 1ONTHS OUTRAGES.


has presented a memorandum to the powers,
60, for+,, + GREAT length the condition of
.ffatrr in the last three months in Macedonia
since the Turkish Government undertook to be-
gin the promised reforms. Dates, places and
names of persons are given in the memorandum
the whole constituting a catalogue OF murder
torture, incendiarism. pillage and general op-
preston by the Ottoman soldiers and othcials.
These particulars were obtained entirely from
official sources such reports of the bulgarian
consuls and agents of the Bulgarian Govern
rnent and in many instances the reports MADE
by Turkish authorities. The Bulgarian Gov
ernrlent guarantees the absolute truth Of every
statement. and challenges the Porte to disprove
single charge made.
The memorandum has made a strong impress
sion in diplomatic circles The Austrian diplo-
matte agent has already called on the Premier
TO express his anxiety regarding the results that
may ensue from its publication. The French
and Italian agents also expressed uneasiness, al
though they took less gloomy view.
The memorandum begins by stating that in
the last three months the Ottoman Government
has taken a series OF measures with the alleged
intention of beginning the era of promised re-
form and of assuring peace and tranquility to
the Bulgarian population of European Turkey,
but which have had the contrary effect of fur
Their exasperating this population and reviving
the revolutionary movement. Instead Of pro-
ceeding solely against persons guilty Of breaches
OF the public order. the military and civil au-
1norities have sought every possible pretext to
persecute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian in
habitants alike in the cities and in the villages
MURDER, ARSON AND PILLAGE.
Wholesale massacres. individual murders, the
destruction of villages. the pillaging of and set
ting fire to houses, arrests, i'll treatment, tort
ures, arbitrary imprisonment and banishment.
the closing and disorganizing of churches and
schools. the running of merchants, the collection
of taxes for many years in advance, the memo
randum continues are among the acts of the
Ottoman administration of the vilayets of Sa-
lonica. Monastir. Uskub and Adrianople.
The memorandum next relates in detail
number Of such cases in each vilayet. Begin
ming with the vilayet Of Salonica, it states that
in the town of Salonica the Bulgarian professors
of the university, the students and shopkeep-
ers-ia fact, all intelligent Bulgarians in the
city-have been cast into prison. One hundred
and twenty soldiers entered the village of Cor
na-Ribntza on May 10 and tortured to death
five men and two women. In the first three
weeks of July twenty-five villages in the dis
trict Of Tikvesch were subjected to the depreda-
tions Of the Turkish soldiers and bashibazouks.
women violated and the houses plundered, while
the administrative authorities looked on
in the vilayet Of Monastir, artillery lombard
ed and razeG the fourishing town of Smer-
desch, the three hundred houses being left a
heap Of ruins At the beginning of July two
Greek oaad5 with the connivance of the author
ities pillaged Bulgarian villages and murdered
many Of their inhabitants
PERSECUTION OF BULGARIANs.
n the vilayet Of Uskub The entire Bulgarian
population has been systematically prosecuted
since last May. The director of the normal
school at Uskub imprisoned because his
library contained the revolutionary works of
otnello' ana Les Miserables In the districts
q Paianka Koschani, Koumanovo and Gostigar
the prisons are filed with Bulgarian priests
schoolmasters and merchants. In June the SOL
diers and bashibazouks terrorized the inhab-
hants Of the Schtif District torturing the people
with iedhot irons. Similar atrocities perpe-
rated in the vilayet of Adrianople are cited.
The memorandum gives particulars of no fewer
han l31 individual and general cases of ex
cesses and outrages committed by the Turkish
authorities. In summarizing the details of tbese
outrages the memorandum declares that whole
kaie nassacres were perpetrated by regulars and
nsshibazouks in the town of Salonica and tbe
villages of Baldeyo, Banitza, Tchouriloyo Kar-
"inza. Moghila, Smerdesch and Enidie while
me scenes of carnage, pillage and incendiarisn
were everywhere terrible. At Smerdesch over
TWO hundred Bulgarians were shot, killed with
swords OF burned 10 death. Over two hundred
ana fifty houses and the churches and schools
were set on fire with petroleum and pillaged
me property being sold by the soldiers and
psshibazouks in neighboring places. Similar
seesies occurred at the villages of Gorna-Rib
Nil~a, lgoumenetz. Dobrilald and Nikoden. The
sisiegers there abandoned their homes and fled
y The mountains.
FUGITIvEs FROM THE DISTRICTS.
over three thousand men. women and children
ieo from the sanjal Of seres. and even more
"om the sanjak OF Kirkkisze
= Is difficult. says the memorandum, to obtain
tAs exact number OF Bulgarians who We're i'm
'iisohed, mostly on pretexts, when they were
creased others We're Immediately arrested The
sttnates obtainable give for the vilayet of
sgnica 800 prisoners for Uskub. 800; for Mon
"s1r. 900, and for Adrianope. 550 grand total
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