Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-18
PREPARE
FOR " Ar
TURKEY AND BULGARIA RUSH
AMMUNITION AND STORES
TO THEIR DEPoTs.
FIGHTING CONTINUES
River is Full of Dead Bodies of Victims
of Massacres-BuIgaris Issues Mems
orandum to Powers Accusing Turkey
of Many Wrongs.

of Many Wrongs.
st. Petersurg, Aug. 1.-THE squad
ron Of the Russian Black sea fleet is
at Sebastopol under orders to sail for
Turkish waters and consists of four
battleships, four torpedo boat de-.
| stroyers and six marine and torpedo
transports.
Bucharest, Aug. 1.-THE acting war
minister has ordered the government
powder factory and the small arms
ammunition depot to prepare large
| quantities of ammunition Immediate,
ly. ( (
Constantinople, Aug. 17.-An imper-
ial order has been issued calling out
fifty-two additional battalions OF
troops (about $4,000 men) from the
European provinces of Turkey, in con-
sequence of the spread of the insur--
rection in Macedonia
Berlin, Aug. 17-According to dis
patch received by the Frankfort Zei-
tung the river near Monastir, Macedo-
MIA, is full of mutilated bodies of wom-
en- and children who have been MUIR
dered by the Bashi-B Bazouks.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 17.-By order
of the Turkish government the pro-
vince of Macedonia is su..ering the's
agonies OF massacres, individual
murders, torture, incendiarism and
wholesale arrests without cause-all
in the name of reform m-says a note
issued by the Bulgarian government
yesterday and sent to the powers in
terested in the Balkan revolution.
Turkish soldiers have cast hundreds
of Bulgarian priests and educators,
and thousands of other innocent per-
sons into prison, burned Bulgarian
towns, violated Bulgarian women
without number and spread desolation
and oppression throughout four villa
4 vets, oftentimes collecting taxes for
years in advance.
Special cases are cited to show the
horrors endured by the people at the
hands of the Turkish troops. All are
officially guaranteed to be truthful,
the facts having been gathered by
Bulgarian consuls and other agents
and given to the powers with a view
to showing that Bulgaria is not to
blame for the Macedonian revolt
against Turkish rule.
Challenges Turkey to Denial.
So confident is the Bulgarian gov
ernment of it's accusation that it chal-
lenges Turkey to disprove single
charge.
The memorandum has made a
! strong impression in diplomatic cir
cles. The Austrian diplomatic agent
has already called on the premier to
express his anxiety regarding the re-
) suits that may ensue from publication.
The French and Italian agents also
expressed uneasiness, although they
took less gloomy view.
Note Specifies Soldier Horrors.
The Bulgarian memorandum to the
n powers begins by stating that during
II the last three months the Ottoman
e government has taken series OF
IS measures with the alleged intention of
e inaugurating the era of promised re-
t, form and of assuming peace and
tranquility to the Bulgarian popula-
ton of European Turkey but which
have had the contrary effect of fur
ther exasperating this population and
i. reviying the revolutionary movement.
= Instead of proceeding solely against
persons guilty of breaches OF the pub
9. lie order the military and civil author
d ities have sought every possible pre-
If text to prosecute. terroize and ruin the
II Bulgarian inhabitants. alike in the
= large cities and in the small villages.
Wholesale massacres. individual
murders, the destruction of villages,
the pllaging and setting fire to houses
the arrests, ill-treatment, tortures, ar,
a bitrary Imprisonment and banishment
the closing and disorganizing OF
churches and schools, the running of
A. merchants, the collection of taxes for
j. many years in advance-such, contin-
g ues the memorandum, are among the
le acts of the Ottoman administration OF
of the villayets OF Salonica, Monastir,
Uskub and Adrianople.
Diplomats Not Anxious.
London, Aug. 17.-According to in
formation in possession of diplomats
N in London, there is no reason at this
' moment to fear danger of differences
between the powers respective to
le Macedonia or that the trouble will
le spread beyond the confines of Turkey