June 6, 2011

600 Macedonians coming

600 MACEDONIANS COMING

Emigrating to America — Atrocities Still Going On in Turkey.

BELGRADE, March 28.—Six hundred Macedonian emigrants left here to-day for the United States by way of Fiume.

All of them possessed sufficient funds to permit of their entering the United States.

Although the Turkish Government reports the condition of the Macedonian valiyyets to be "tranquil" it appears that, after all the efforts of the powers and the elaborate measures taken by the foreign gendarmerie officers, the condition of the Christian population is very little better than it was two years ago..."

Published: March 19, 1906, The New York Times

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