The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-11
1T O WARLIkE.
Much Is Doing in Turkey to Prevent
Strong Feeling.

London, Sept. Especial dispatches
from Constantinople concur regarding
the gravity Of the situation and state
that warlike feeling has been increased
by the fact that the sultan last Friday
reviewed and presented colors to two
new Hussar regiments. recruited from
the tribes which produced the Ottoman
dynasty, this being the first time that
the sultan has presided at such a cere-
mony. Turkish papers are making pa
trotic appeals to the nation. .
In of the bomb outrage
on the steamer Vaskapu, the Austrian
Lloyd Steamship company refuses to
lake passengers baggage between Bull
garia and Constantinople.
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
from Constantinople says the military
party is clanoring for war, but the
sultan still hesitates. Nevertheless,
troops are now being massed along the
frontier in readiness to take the field.
Advfces from Salonica state that the
authorities have received from Con-
stantinople orders to prepare lists of
the Armenians and Seryians living in
Salonica, who will be subjected to the
strictest police surveillance.
On the sultan's fete day it transpires
that the "Mangas" clubs, composed of
the lowest elements Of the Turkish
population, had made an organized
preparation to massacre the Christians,
h1i tliS tploN luGuH Will d
uniform pattern of cudgels, as was
done at the time of the Armenian mas
sacres in Constantinople. 1t Is sup
posed that the "Mangas' were over
!awed by the military precautions, as
nothing happened.
Massacres in Okrida.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Monastir. telegraphing under a Satur-
day date, says:
There is nc doubt that a Turkish
war of determination is proceeding in
the Okrida district. The massacres Of
a century ago are as nothing
with those occurring daily in the villa
yet OF Monastir. I have obtained sub
stantial evidence to prove hat the
Turkish regular troops are in most
cases committing unheard of atrocities,
which are not solely the work OF the
B"ash1bazouks, as the authorities are
eek1ng to prove. The plight Of the
survivors is terrible. Not daring to
leave their houses and subsisting on
grass and water they resemble people
IN n last stages Of famine. The
Turks are also losing heavily, Judging
from the number Of injured arriving
here"
Among the instances he gives in SUD-
port or his statement the correspond
ent relates that "a priests son in one
village was f1ayed alive and kent in
SAAAS CollulllOn LOT several 61VS
to the delight of his tormentors until a
merciful Turk shot him dead"
Paris, Sept. Tn an interview pub
llshed in the Gaulois this mornine
Munir Pasha, the Turkish ambassador
declares the stories of atrocities and
massacres in Macedonia to be grossly
exaggerated Though such acts may
nave been committed by Turkish sol.
d1ers, he says, they are more isoIate3
instances and acts of reprisal for sim
liar deeds committed by the insur-
gents. Turkey wants peace and has
mobilized a sufficient force to crush aII
opposition, which is the best means to
prevent bloodshed and secure naaoa
Munir Pasha does no believe tbaro Ill;
be war with Bulgaria as Prince Fardi-
hano desires peace. He asserts that
Iauch or the money Of the insureents
came from the ransom OF Miss stone
he American missionary. o"'