Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-13
ENVOYFROM MACEDONIA
Dr. shoomkoff Tells Why His
 Countrymen Are Fighting.
BRUTALITY OF TURKS PICTURED.

He Says the suItan's Soldier Is sus-
 pfctous of His Shadow and win
 Not Fight Men-HandsOnestw Women
 Carried on-The R1st, With the
 Children and Old Persons, Are
 Slaughtered.
 Sent as special envoy to create sym pathy for the insurgents in the Bal kans, Dr. S. J. Shoomkoff of the Mace Sdonian benevolent committee of Sofia, who recently arrived at New York on the Deutschland from Southampton, has gone to confer with the president of the University of Pennsylvania on She methods of raising funds and creat- Sng interest in the distress of his peo- pie, says the New York Press. Dr. Shoomkoff is a graduate of the department of philosophy of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and is also graduate of Chicago university. In all he spent fifteen years in the two uni versailles. Then he returned to his home in Salonika to join the uprising now in progress.
 s0The extent of the horror of Turkish warfare" he said, cannot be con eeived in this country.
 "The Turks will not fight the men, but they go into isolated villages when the men are away with the insurgent bands, lay waste whole villages, carry the handsomest women into the harems of the generals and murder the rest, } together with all of the Christian chill dren. Then the towns are burned to Ehe ground.
 Americans cannot conceive of this kind of warfare. But all Europe knows 1t. The sickening stench of the mur- ders arises from the plains of Mace donia to the nostrils of all civilized Europe But they will do nothing They are used to the stencil And our blood runs in torrents, but no one cares"
 I've have waited for twenty five q years since the treaty of Berlin for the inauguration of the reforms and for tho establishment of the home rule til ere promised by it. Instead ! we been made the slaves of the ( Turk -disfranchised in every court, ) our women taken ruthlessly from our homes, our goods and our lives placed absolutely at the mercy of those who are merciful only when they kill. ask the American people if they could have stood this for twenty-five years?
 Bulgaria is filled with the few wo- men and children who escaped, and in our hiding places we have in bands of dOO, POO, 500, men who feed on what they can find, who sleep on the ground. carry no camp baggage, excepting their rifles and hand bombs filled with dyna- mite
 Scouts are stationed all through the country. We have every patriot in the country who lives in the larger towns under a tax according to his ability to pay. This fund supplies us with arms nnd ammunition.
 Today in Macedonia the Turk is suspicious of his shadow. He goes abroad only in midday and in force, and not to fight, but to murder the wo- men and children in some little village that has been left unprotected through operations carried on at a distarce. The actions of the Turkish soldiery in such attacks are those of incarnate dends. From the time the attack be- gins until the last woman and child is dead and the village in flames the sol- Hiers are uncontrolled by anything ax- cept their fury. Their officers could not restrain them if they would. Iis- cipline is unknown. The soldiers are without pay and find 1t as they go. 'It may seem strange to say we are not trying to form government in Macedonia. But such is the fact. Cur |I warfare is conducted simply with a view to force Bulgaria to fight Turk ey. Her people are doing 1t with food, re- exutts, arms and funds. but her gov-