The London ' Chronicle ' of May 17 pub lishes a terrible list of Turkish official out rages in Macedonia. In nearly every case the culprits have not been punished at all, or if nominally punished the sentences have been commuted to mere detention for a brief period. We give some sample cases :—: — At Blatetse, also in the ca'.a of Kotchani, some women and maidens holiday-making on the Feast of St. EJias were suddenly attacked by a band of Turks of the same village, who abducted one of the women. The villagers coming to her rescue, they decamped, leaving the poor woman half dead from their violence. The whole of the Christian portion of the village complained to the prefect of Kotchani, but to no purpose. An attempt to outrage the Bulgarian schoolmistress in this village of Blatetse was happily frustrated by the unex pected arrival of some of the villagers. On January 21, 1894, the village of (10) , in the same c«:« of Kotchani, was visited by a Govern ment official, whose name has not transpired, with a military escort and a couple of his own Albanian servants. The official, who had come to inquire into the complaints of the inhabitants, stayed with his companions at the house of a Bulgarian. He rewarded the hospitality of his host by attempting to outrage one of the female inmates, but luckily the man's sons were aroused by her screams, and after a hard struggle they succeeded in rescuing her. The complaints made at Kotchani by the family were unheeded. In the village of Tersino (Kotchani) there lived a well-to-do Bulgarian, the father of four daughters and one son. Two of the elder girls were abducted and forced to become Mahome dans in 1893, and last year the third daughter nearly shared the same fate. A party of armed Turks tried to carry her off, but were defeated by the desperate resistance of her father and brother. The Turks fled without their prey, but not until they had killed the father and severely wounded the son.
