The sun., 1903-09-19
200 WOMEN KILLED BY TURKS.
FOuR MORE VILLAGES ARE DE-
STROYED.
Insurgents Defeat Turks I'm Three Engage.
ments-A Report That Bulgarlans Had
Crossed the Turkish Frontier IL Ap-
parentIy Untrue-Taik Is Still Of war.
Special cable Despatch to THE SUN.

parentIy Untrue-Talk Is Still Of War.
Special cable Despatch to THE SUN.
SOFIA, Sept. ls-Despatches received
to-day corroborate prior reports OF the
wholesale massacre by Turkish troops at
Kast oria They say that the town is still
burning.
The massacre of the population was ter
rible beyond description, the Turks slaugh-
tering Bulgarians and Greeks. men, women
and children, Unfortunately.
Advices received here state that the
Turkish frontier guards are lying in trenches
in anticipation OF Bulgarian attack. The
Bulgarian reserves have been called out
and they have started to join their respective
regiment amid scenes Of great enthusiasm.
Trains entering Turkey from Bulgaria
are now stopped at the town of Mustapha.
Both passengers and luggage are vigorously
searched and forwarded to their destina-
ton by another train. Bulgarian passen-
gers are not permitted to proceed further,
but are detained over night and are then
sent back to Bulgaria.
LONDON, Sept. 19-The Monastir corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail, who is strongly
opposed to the Turks and who was
threatened with expulsion recently. tele-
graphs
at appears that the reported massacre
at Kastoria is an old affair It occurred
on Aug I, when seventy Christians were
murdered. All the villages in the district
have since been laid waste.
The same correspondent sends fresh
list of barbarities, which he says are thor
oughly uthentic icated. Eighteen children,
he says, We're burned TO death in a bake
oven by the Turks at Pisoder on Sept. II
and 200 women were massacred at Jervan.
Fifty women and children who had fed
to the mountains, returned to the village
under stress of starvation and were mur-
dered by the soldiers. Fourteen old men
who we're working in the fields at Resna
were murdered by bashi-baZouks and four
villages near Krushevo were destroyed
and many of the inhabitants massacred
The correspondent, apparently through
the action of Sir N. O'Conor, the British
Ambassador to Turkey, has been allowed
to remain at Monastir. but has been warned.
Macedonian reports received at Sofia
state that the Turks have been severely de-
feated by the insurgents in engagements
near Kratavo, near Seres and near Jernan,
suffering severe losses.
The talk this morning is still Of war in
the Balkans, A report which was cir
culated In Vienna late last night that fight
ing had begun, the Bulgarians having
crossed the Turkish frontier, cannot be
confirmed and is apparently untrue. The
Bulgarian agent at Vienna denied any
knowledge that any such move had been
made.
Nevertheless, the inevitableness Of war
between Bulgaria and Turkey continues
to be asserted in various quarters. A Con-
stantinople telegram Of yesterdays date
asserts that the Turkish High Military
Commission. which was then sitting at
Yildz Kiosk, was considering a plan for
the invasion Of eastern ROumania.
The renewed assurances by Bulgaria that
the mobilization Of her reserves on the
frontier is merely to prevent sympathizers
with the insurgents from crossing and
Joining them does not satisfy the Porte,
and the situation is extremely serious
Another Constantinople despatch de-
clares that a decision has been reached to
invade Roumelia on the slightest move
ment by the Bulgarians.
The Vienna Neue Fre,e Presse quotes
statesman. who is apparently Chancellor
Won Buelow, who is now In Austria with
the Kaiser, as saying that the Russian.
Austrian and German Governments are
convinced that peace will not be disturbed
this year.
The Governments of the Sultan and
Prince Ferdinand likewise continue to de-
clare that they desire to do everything
possible to avoid war.
The question is whether Bulgaria can
restrain he bellicose spirit Of her nationals.
The popular reception to the reservists
who were recently called out has been very
enthusiastic and reflects the intense pro-
Macedonia sympathy.
LONDON, Sept. ia despatch from
Salonica, dated Thursday, says battalion
OF radfs attacked a party Of Christian
gendarmes at Mitrovit2a, wOunding several.
The rest escaped to the Russian consulate,
where they are now besiaged. The situa-
ton is critical, II will be recalled that the
Russian consul at Mitrovitza was murdered
by Albanians several months ago.
There is n report from Turkish sources
of all engagement near Okhridu, in which
300 Bugarians, including many officers.
We're killed. One officer Of high rank
wore n Russian decoration.
despatch from Samakov to the Times
SAYS it is calculated that there are about
20 600 Macedonian refugees along the
frontier between Bo,lrgas and Kostendil,
and the number il constantly increasing
They are all eagerly anticipating the dav
of reckoning with the Turks, but many
are compelled TO remain iractve because
of n lack of arms and ammunition The
revolutionary committees are apparently
unable to keep pace with the demand for
rifles, and the weapons are arriving slowly
and irrrgularly
Another despatch from Samakov TO the
Times saws "The American college here
has been informed that more than 5000
refugees from the viavet Of Adrianople
are now AT Bourgas and neighboring vii
lagos in condition of extreme destitution.
They bring the usual tales of rapine by
the troops in the bashi-bazouk disr rcts
of Iozen, Kirk -Kilisse and Vasliko. Little
is known as vet of the real state OF affairs
in those remote regions which no foreigner
is allowed TO penetrate
FRED GIBBS GETTING WE'LL.