The Trail of the Turk.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 7 December 1903, Page 4

The Trail of the Turk.

A JOURNEY THROUGH STRICKEN ADRIAN OI'LE. Writing from Ph'ilippopolis, Bulgaria, on Oct. 12, Mr Reginald YVyon, special correspondent of the bond en Daily Mail, sent a dreadful account of the state of the vilayet of Adrianople, where the Turks have worked their will on the wretched Bulgarian population for months. Murder, outrage, pillage, amd arso» mai k the track of the Ottoman troops everywhere. A RISKY JOURNEY.

Mr Wyoni says :—The condition of tiie vilayet s of Adriaioople tiegKars 'description. Monas-tir was bad enough, but a certain publicity modified Hie outrages slightly. In Adrianople, however, the Turk has i il freo hand l'or mairblis, and the e« of misery, mflrder, and unspeakable cruelty I have col lac ted (luring in\» tour into the interior at some personal risk would fill a book.

,L ' , , kl '" k Kilisse < >n F'Wav fcr ,K l Uv| V iuH "' d, ' hX '' M > r Pawnee fc'"-. ti> eiuljarrasswl the authorities dh X haul wisely omitted to obtaiii the necessary permisnum at Adriaui"f wh " h "ould certainly haye 1 was placed under with iT'T! nCU ' but wverttactess With the help OI a local Uraek I Huive the authorities the slip ' n ,jxi "■orninß, and walked but a Tw in tl. to aw a n tin. Tuiks a .short tinlc ago. i«„ sp . e . ctack ' " lls l'it-iwljle. Only i m ■ w, W hm r N ure «taaKj"'niaintdt'r are a lwan of ™«»»- «o.m> starving dogs we.e whrmng for fooil-u,,. Oll l v "iving . S |.g.,uj of whl . a ,j apparently '•;^ u pre„y U!ml k ■ li.iued carcases of horses <i»«d other animal* wer, . ab®ut Uu "-'L-wn r^^rsrs usrirs J;;, ■» r W «a» vi\l'T'\ y K,mm < <«vd children ami Molato.l every female. Thov' ' l «>ie w .rv.-v„, ?> W(MV t(m o|rd ; Lo 11 Iwi'lf u,' 10 uW " um s ™ k iwteousl.v. fi'ouml, solving On inwav tn K'.-.-l T i"y AHhmi)ii> a C previoush- |.'.,„.. r . " «eeks smashed ' the in.,,' xvni ' cl <>w was ax,?s (Ml tile doors Ti 0f leave „ stick , TPy cl " 1 n ot 7«i and the atwtmJ* t'% < i" 6 1,1 P'w», v »(, r in hiick.,d bv° a "' d , Wl ° t'hv sacerdiif 11 , ' ° m - Even T" "WW ' J • sol "'ees 01 informaiti<m aro in every case « wk <„• Tlu . kjs . h _ «•_,»

former all agree that the Bulgarians haw not been guilty of a single outrage beyoiWl the judicial murder of traitors. In fact, one and all expressed intense pity for the Bulgiarialns, who are now being literally exterminated. Some accounts of the horrors 1 am sending by mail. But the worst case was told me by several of the Greek eye-witnesses aforesaid. It is as follows In an Albanian regiment returning) to Adi-ianople many of the soldiers displayed as trophies, or carried in their haversacks, women's breasts ainid ears pickled. These ghasily relics they were taking l home. I was also assured that riot a s'imgle village is left standing between Kirk Kilisse ami Tirnovo, and not a single Christian is to be seen. Out of some villages of a thousand families but fifty escaped.