Show M en Og HOPE ff horrible scenes daily enacted under the eyes of the officials wanton slaughter r of chris ians lans b turkish troopers who mu murder ader women and ch idren as well as the heads of households london W A moore secretary ol 01 the balkan committee who has re turned from a two months tour ol 01 macedonia said in an interview or u sunday the wanton slaughter of chris fians in macedonia continues under the eyes of europe a representatives crossing the bulgarian border the first news to greet me was an unbar donable massacre in the little village of Konop nitz which occurred three days before my arrival on visiting the village I 1 found the bodies of a man two women a girl and the chil drea dren still unburied burled un and laid out in the chri christian S tian church the women had been shot but I 1 saw one child which had been crushed probably with the butt of a gun the wounded had been taken to egri an hour hours s ride distant and where resides the austrian officer in charge of the district the story of the affair Is a tion of the oft told tale an gent band visited the village and demanded food on departing the turk ish authorities learning of the visit dispatched a body of troops which discovering no insurgents in the place dealt out their vengeance on the christians the observation ot of the european officers seldom deters the edans from slaying christians the austrian officer at koinm anova district has charge ot of villages where murders are ot of dally daily occurrence and are not noticed by the authorities in the monastir Mo district the italian officers sleep with the turkish arms in order to observe its methods of suppressing ansur gents this however only prevents special detachments from perpetrate per ing crime mr moore says the country is still swarming arming ew with asiatic troops which have not been removed since the mobilization against bulgaria in 1903 |