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Show SITUATION IN TURKEY. Revolutionists Delayed by Harvesting Are Hastening to Join Their Colors. Lottors rocolved In London from Monastir, dated August Cth, add some Information regarding the situation tbon prevailing to the brlof reports that tho censor allows to leak ouL The lottors say: "Tho Insurrectionary bands havo nearly their full complement of men, and thoso revolutionists who woro doJ layod by the harvesting are hastening to Join the colors. Herotofore the recruits re-cruits were roqulred to provide their own rifloa. Now all aro supplied from magazines In tho mountains. "Excepting for two or thre places possessing strategic advantages, all of the sixty or seventy villages in the Kirchovo district are deserted. "In the Fiorina district the robela have a large depot In a strong position posi-tion In the mountains. Many women are baking bread day and night for thoso in the field, and large suppllw of clothing, shoos, rifles and ammunition ammuni-tion are kept thoro. "A spy Informed the Turkish authorities au-thorities of the depot and they tent a thousand troops on August 4th to capture tho place. Tbo fight which ensued lasted twenty-four hours. Many soldlora wore killed, but the stronghold was so secure that tho rebels, who sustained no loss, repulsed re-pulsed tho attack. "On August Bth sixty Turkish soldiers sol-diers were found dead at Karamanla, apparently killed In a hard fight with a superior force of rebels. |
