Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-09
HOW TURKS TORTURE.
Treatment of Christians De
 scribed by an Eyewitness.
THE MEN FLoaaRD FOR REVENGE.

One Vtctfms George Lynch Says, Had
 His Legs Broken to Make Him Re-
 veal Hiding Place of Aruas and
 Bombs-Wonen. Ferced to Flee to
 the Eorests and Children Starved.
 1eThare is no question that the Turks have been practteing brutalitfes upon the Christians in Dubnitza," says George Lynch in recent special cable gram from Monastir in Macedonia to the St Louis Globe Democrat.
 T saw hundreds of refugees who had fled from the destroying Turk I visit ed a hut occupied by the remnant of a family. On entering I heard the wailing cry of a. suffering child. A wo-. man seated on the floor was busy stemming tobacco. Two children were crouching near her, one a pretty child of four and the other younger. The lat ter was wailing. have never seen a more pitiful bit of humanity. She was simply a living skeleton Her legs were like bird claws, crooked and help less, like those of g. dead bird
 1.-The mother tolds me her story. She said their village had been burned by Turks and her husband slaughtered. She and rher children, escaped and fed. For five weeks she and her children hid in the forest and, although her village was not far from the frontier, it took her five weeks to reach the from tier and safety. The child became ill from starvation and eating roots. I saw other refugees. All told me the same story. I had long talk with a woman who had a baby in arms. She said the Turks had begun to outrage the women Of her village Then all the young women fled from the village dur ing the night. The Turks logged the men who remained for revenge.
 ssI interviewed group of men refu- gees. They were apbarentIy simple peasants. All of the group of thirteen except oneehad been beaten only few days ago. He stripped and showed me the marks of punishment. It was a terrible exhibition: asked the men for what reason they were given the logging. They said the reason given by the Turks was to make them tell where bombs and arms were hidden. The men said if they left the villages temporarily to avoid logging their wo- men were outraged. If they attempt to escape while being logged sentries shoot them down. One man had his legs broken to compel him to tell about alleged buried arms.
 s1This was the Turks method of tor ture: Being pinioned, he was forced to kneel down. A long piece of timber was placed under his shins and another behind his calves. The ends of both were securely Iashed. Men stood on sthe timbers thus formed. Then two Turks bent his body back, throwing their entire weight on his chest, until, after terrible agony, his legs snapped. I made him strip to verify his tale. 1t was horribly obvious. There was no exaggeration about it. Another refu- gee had shissarm broken Another told me he had been tied naked to a tree twenty -four hours, while his wife was carried away under his eyes by bashi- bazouks. Tn a simple, wistful way, as If I, being stranger, might have good news, they asked, Do you think the Russians will come again to help us?
 'tIt makes any mans blood boil to see that the only interference of the pow CTS is to lecture and threaten Bulga- rians who had helped their brothers. How long, OsLord, how long, before the justice and pity of the civilized worldswill~ voice in action?"