June 26, 2011

Colonist - 1902

Colonist, Volume XLV, Issue 10542, 17 October 1902, Page 3

Macedonians. Alleged Massacres by Turks.

Received October 16, 9.52 p.m. SOFIA, October 16

Six hundred Macedonian women and children have crossed the Bulgarian frontier. They report that the Turkish troops have destroyed several Christan villages, massacring the inhabitants, and desecrating and burning the church at Serbihov. The Macedonian Committee has convened, at Sofia, on Sunday, a дпаѕѕ meeting of all provincial Mace-donian societies, and appealed 4o European statesmen to protect Christians. It has also summoned all Macedonian refugees to defend the national cause.

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