Show I MACEDONIANS MACEDONIANSHOPE WITHOUT HOPE Horrible Scenes Daily Enacted Under the Eyes of the Officials Wanton Slaughter of Christians by Turkish Troopers Who Murder Women and Children as Well as the Heads of Households LondonW A Mooro secretary of tho Balkan committee who has returned re-turned from a two months tour of Macedonia said In an Interview on Sunday The wanton slaughter of Chris tiana In Macedonia continues under the eyes of Europes representatives Crossing the Bulgarian border the Drat news to greet me was an unpardonable unpar-donable massacre In tho little village of Konopnltjt which occurred three days before my arrival On visiting tho village I found the bodies of q man two women a girl and the children chil-dren still uuburled and laid out In the Christian church The women had been shot but I saw one child which had been crushed probably with the butt of a gun The wounded had been taken to Bgrl Palanka an hours ride distant and where resides the Austrian olllcci In charge of tho district The story of tho affair Is a repetl ilgn of the ofttold tale An Insurgent Insur-gent band visited the village and demanded de-manded food on departing Tho Turkish Turk-ish authorities learning of the visit dispatched u body of troops which discovering no Insurgents in tho place dealt out their vengeance on the Christians The observation Of the European officers seldom deters the Mohammedans from slaying Christians The Austrian officer at Kounmanova district has charge of 119 villages where murders are of tally occurrence and are not noticed by the authorities In the Monastlr elstrfcGaheJtallauafflcors sloh wllli the Turkish arms In order to observe Its methods of suppressing Insurgents Insur-gents This however only prevents ipocial detachments from perpetrating perpetrat-ing crime Mr Moore says tho country Is still swarming with Asiatic troops which have not been removed since the mobilization against Bulgaria in 1903 |