Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — DOOM ALL BULGARIANS. [ARTICLE]

DOOM ALL BULGARIANS.

Turks Plan to Accomplish Their Total Extirpation. . According to n Sofia telegram the Turkish repressive measures in Macedonia have reached the utmost limits of barbarism and it is evident that it is the intention to accomplish by degrees the total extirpation of the Bulgarian population. Within the last few days, ways a correspondent, twelve more Christian villages have been handed over to fire and sword and the women, children and the aged have been massacred indiscriminately. Convoys of prisoners dispatched to Monastir have been murdered by their escorts on the way. A private letter from a foreign resideu{ in Monastir says even the local are disgusted and meditate assassinating the Qpnsute in order to awaken Europefip )nterv?i>tiofi. Tlfe insurgents af§ doubtless takizg a terrible Revenge and are executing the revolutionary program to the letter. The reported concentration of large Turkish forces in the Adrianopie district at Mus-tafa-Pasha, Klzylagneh and other points on the Bulgarian frontier is regarded with much apprehension in Sofiia, as it is well known that in case of war an invasion would occur from this direction. According to reports from Constantinople a rumor was current that war had already been declared against Bulgaria. It was proved to be unfounded, but the state of popular feeling is said to be such that no other fcdue is regarded as possible. It is further stated that although the Russian squadron was withdraws from Inada it continues to cruise near the Bosporus. The insurgents in the Debr district are said to be destroying the villages and murdering their inhabitants.