Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-22
Are Repulsed with a Heavy Loss,
After Six-Hour Conflict in Vi
cinity Of. Monastir.
REPORT OF CHRISTIAN SLAUGHTER
At KRUSHEVo Is CONFIRMED
No Less Than 500 Mussulmans Re-
ported Mastered Throughout Dis
\ trict of Menastir by Insurgents-
News of Sailing of Squadron Unwel-
come at COnstantinople.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. ia fierce bat
tie is reported to have occurred in the
neighborhood of Monastir. Three Turk
jsh battalions attacked thousand in
Eurgents, and after the fight had ragged
Tor six hours the Turks were repulsed,
with the loss of 210 men killed or
wounded. The insurgents loss is not
given.
Wholesale Slaughter Reported.
Reports received here from Constan-
tinople, and believed to be authentic,
confirm the previous statements to the
effect that when the Turks recaptured
Krushevo they slaughtered the entire
Christian population, without exception,
and it is pointed out that among those
killed were the employees of the govern
ment tobacco establishments, which
were under European control, as the pro-
ceeds from these establishments were
assigned to the service of the Turkish
debt.
News of Sailing Unwelcome.
Constantinople, Aug 19-The Russian
squadron of warships, which left Sebas-
topol Monday, was expected to arrive
of the Turkish coast Tuesday afternoon,
to support the demands made on Turkey
by Russia in connection with the assas-
sination August of N. Rostkovski, the
Russian consul at Monastir. The fact
that Russia is about to make a naval
demonstration in Turkish waters has
been kept profound secret here, the
public being entirely ignorant of Rus
6ia's movement.
The notification received here of the
sailing of the squadron was an unwel-
come surprise to the Turkish govern
ment, which had pretended to believe
that the Rostkovski incident had been
closed with the punishment of the guilty
parties.
According to advices received at one
of the foreign embassies at Constanti
nople, no less than 800 Mussulmans
have been massacred throughout the
district of Monastir by insurgents,
whose movements continue to gain
ground. Enmer Rushdi Pasha, who is
nominally in command of the Turkish
troops operating in the Monastir dis
1rict, is seriously hampered in his ef-
forts to suppress the ihsurrection by the
fact that the instructions he receives
from here are constantly changing
and that when a movement is under
taken counter order from the palace
alters the whole situation. The Turk
ish commissariat department is in a
wretched condition. The troops at
inc ho1
served with rations of meat for six
:. weeks
Insursent Bands Active.
The insurgent bands in the vilayet of
Adrianople are also active. One band
recently captured detachment of 60
Turkish soldiers, near Haskoi, close to
the Bulgarian frontier.
Twenty-four battalions of reserves in
the vilayet Of Anatolia have been sum-
moned to the colors.
The repeated attacks made by the in
surgents on the railroads and the mad
SeQuate protection afforded by the Turk
lsh authorities have compelled the rail-
road officials to order, in spite of the
protests of the military commanders,
the suspension of traffic on the Salonica,
Monastir and Uskub lines.
Dispatches received here from Bel
grade, Servia, say that the Turkish min
lister there has secured the detention of
a quantity of arms and ammunition des-
tined for Bulgaria. The forwarder Of
the war munitions was sentenced to pay
a fine of $4,000 for the illegal exporta-
ton of munitions of war;
Suggestion from Vienna.
Vienna, Aug. ia curious sugges-
ton has been made in some political cir
cles, to the effect that the Russian
squadron bound for Turkish waters is
not intended so much as menace to
Turkey as to protect the sultan in the
event of a serious outbreak at the YHdiz
palace, resulting from the dissatisfac-
ton of the Albanians and OF the Arab
an-Syrian clique.