The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
BULGARIANS TO BLAME
GREEK ORGANS VIEW OF THE
MACEDONIAN ATROCITY STORIES.
Revolutionary Committees Charged
with Running Massacre Bureau
and Committing Horrors.

The massacre bureau of the Bulgarian
revolutionary committee at Sofia continues
supplying the press of this country with the
stories of Turkish atrocities. What can be
more preposterous than having the Bull
garians point an accusing finger at the
Turks, and declare You are murderers?"
Especially so in the face of the details of
the horrible crimes perpetrated by the Bull
garian insurgents in Macedonia, which At
lantis presents in this column. The facts
come from most trustworthy source and
have been we'll authenticated.
Most of these reports are printed in a
monthly review published by the Society
of Hellism in Athens, and the Greek daily.
AcropOlis. These show that in the last
three years the Bulgarians have committed
over one thousand of the most diabolical
Most of their unfortunate victims were
Greeks, and the exact number of their out
RACES will probably never be known, be-
cause of the imperfect facilities of commu-
nication between the interior towns of
Macedonia and Greece.
The complete list of known atrocities is
in the hands Of the Greek government, but
the latter has refrained from publishing it
because of the great indignation that would
be voiced in the country by this illustration
of Bulgarian barbarity. Atlantis will glad
~ supply copies of the monthly issued by
the Society OF Hellism. which contains this
list TO any one who applies for 1t. Some of
the crimes that ought 10 startle the world
and cause ali humanity To stand aghast are
described below.
One of these is reported by the CORE
spondent of the Vienna Tageblatt, paper
OF excellent standing in all Europe. This
crime was committed near the village of
GeVgen In January of this year. An entire
family of seven members We're butchered IN
the most horrible manner. This murder was
precipitated by Bulgarian priests, who had
given shelter to the insurgents until the
night of the commission of the crime. Fur
Their proof is at hand that Bulgarian
priest participated in it. The latter. was
arrested and died in prison.
On Nov. Is, 1902. Marcos CARACAS, Greek
physician of Monastir, Macedonia, was NOR
tally wounded by Bulgarians.
In the town OF Ressina. on Oct. TO- 1907,
Greek priest named Papa Charalambes and
his son, a teacher in the village of Chali-
aroussy, were killed by Bulgarians.
The correspondent of the London Times
reported on June 10 last that q leading
Greek in Saracene, Macedonia, was kid
| naped by Bulgarian insurgents, who de-
| manded large ransom from his family,
| who were unable TO pay, whereupon the as
sassins demonstrated further their venom
| Gus hatred of Greeks by actually crucifying
| their victim.
| Perhaps the worst of all the brutal and
| appalling outrages of which the Buigarl-
ans have been guilty was reported from
| Salonika on Aug. Is. Bulgarian band,
| under the leadership of the notorious Char
| calaroff, entered the Greek village of Pro-
copea, and after plundering nearly every
| house took as prisoners Greek priest,
| Papa Christie, and his nephew, teacher.
! They attempted TO force them TO join the
| Bulgarian cause, but the captiveS informed
/ them that they would remain loyal Greeks
| to- the death, and that was their fate. And
/ then followed a massacre probably never
| equaled in it's horrible details. Charcala-
| rolf ordered his men to cut of the ears of
/ the young teacher, and his commands were
| only too willingly executed with equal
| cold-bloodedness did the band cut OH III
/ turn the nose and arms OF the poor, tor
| tured Greek, and while ne lay gaSplng his
| last breath the Bulgarians gouged out his
| eyes and cut out his tongue. AS last
| act of fiendishness the insurgents cut his
| head from the body of the dying man. The
| priest. old man, overcome by fright and
by the horror of the scene before him, ex-
| PRED on the spot Not satisfied with his
| physically painless death, the fiends stab
| bed his dead body.
The foregoing list of atrocities by the
| Bulgarians, taken at random is sufficient
| to stamp the Bulgarian as an unciviZed
| barbarian. The victim in every instance
| was unoffending Greek. Without pass
! ing judgment on the veracity of the Turkish
| massacre report, we are quite positive that
| they could not possibly commit crimes
| more savage or horrible than those few
| mentioned. quite dpTOpOs, lnueeu, is the
| following paragraph by the Macedonia cor
| respondent of the London Chronicle, con-
| tanned in a letter dated July 20:
| 1.-The genuine Greeks, the HelleniZing
| Wallachs and many of the orthodox Bull
garians who identify themselves with the
| Greeks, look upon the revolutionary move
| ment as Il movement calculated 10 further
| the interests of Bulgaria and, if successful
| to place them under new yoke more
| grievous than the one under which they
| are grooming at present. The Turk kills
| the body; but the Slav will kill our national
| soul they say. Once Macedonia has be-
| come Bulgarian, shall have to leave our
| homes or be absorbed. Better oppression
| than national death So speak the more
| moderate ones. Others go even further:
The Turk may be a brute; but the Bull
| garian has proved himself a devil. Look
| at all the Greek priests, schoolmssters and
| notabes daily perishing because they re-
fuse TO renounce their nationality. No. II
| is better to remain under the Turk yet
| awhile"
| The terse but emphatic statement OF
| Premier Balfour in q speech before the
| House of Commons, goes far to support our
| contention that the Bulgarians guilty OF
| most of the wrongs perpetrated on a de-
| fenseless people. Coming from the worthy
| source il does ii should carry great weight
He said: 1--WE must confess with regret
that one of the main obstacles to the sue
| cess of the efforts of Europe is the insur-
l.gent bands themselves. Between the
| crimes that are planned and perpetrated
by the insurgents and the excuses of the
Turkish troops. the historic truth requires
us to say that the balance of crimes lies
rather with the revolutionary bands than
with the Turkish troops.
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