Massacre Feared

Bulgarian Foreign Office Agitated Over News Received.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 13. - The Bulgarian foreign office has received very disquieting news from its agent at Uskub. The Mussulmans there are dally gathering in the mosques and it is feared that a massacre of the Christians is impending. Officials here express the belief that the intervention of the powers alone can prevent a disaster.

The most astonishing feature of the situation here is the remarkable quietude with which the people hare received the news of the fresh rising in Macedonia. The whole outbreak came as a great surprise even to the local revolutionary committee, which were not prepared for so early a rising. In spite of the stirring appeals of the committee little or no popular enthusiasm is apparent, not even among the 20,000 Macedonian residents in Sofia, but should the rising spread to the villayet of Uskub and come near to the Bulgarian frontier it is possible that the population of Bulgaria will become aroused.

Constantinople, Aug. 13. - On hundred and fifty revolutionists were killed in the fighting at Sorovitch Aug. 9, according to official Turkish reports. The same dispatches, which have been communicated to the Russian and Austrian embassies, state that the insurrectionary movement is increasing daily.