East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10
MACEDONIAN CRY
HEARD At LAST
GREEKS BEING SUBJECTED
TO INHUMAN TREATMENT
Turkish Officials Apparently Aiming
to determination of Greeks In I'm
happy Ottoman Province-Daily

Not a day passes without serious
complaints arriving at the Greek Pa
triarchate here of the inhuman treat
| ment the Greek element of Macce-
| donia is receiving at the hands of the
Turkish officials, says a dispatch
| from Constantinople. 1t almost seems
as il the latter are aiming at the en-
tire determination of all the Greeks
in that unhappy Ottoman province.
Not only are these being exiled in
a most arbitrary manner, but they
are every day submitted to cruel
treatment. They are denounced, inn
prisoned, flogged, tortured. In many
districts the prisons are overflowed
with innocent Greeks, who are allow
ed to starve and rot under conditions
almost impossible to believe in.
! Yet the information received by the
Ecumenical Patriarch leaves not the
slightest doubt that the complaints
are justified. Under the pretex that
the Greeks of Macedonia are all eth
er brigands or reactionary revolution
aries, the Ottoman officials seize
them at every turn and without CIV
ing them chance of a fair trial,
flog them or throw them into dunge-
ons. Many are sent to the Military
Court of Monastir, where indescrib-
able atrocities are perpetrated on
them.
In the diocese of Greyena a large
number of orthodox Christians are
dying of wounds inflicted on them by
fanatical mob of MosIems or by Of
. lficials; others are tortured by placing
their arms being bound to their sides.
, Often, too, they are forced to kneel
, upon iron bars or gun-barrels and to
remain in that position for hours,
Iuntil they faint from pain and exhaus-
ton. Teachers in Greek schools are
being flogged mercilessly and openly.
II In a place named Tista two Turk
ish officers with 25 soldiers tortured
In a most inhuman fashion several
respectable members OF the Greek
community, including an aged priest
and in the preparation of these afro
cities the Turks are receiving the CO.
eloperation of the Roumanians in Mace
donia.
In the convent of Spelaion a brig
and was caught and was forced under
torture to accuse the old Greek priest
lAthanasos who had supplied him
with food and shelter. Athanasios
was seized and submitted, without
any examination of the case, to mos
Ibarbaric ill-treatment. He was drag
: Iged from his church and beaten with
e sticks until they broke. When h,
II tainted he was revived by pouring
icold water on him and then beater
q lagain and again. The assembled
y IGreek peasants and the poor famil,
e of the priest cried for mercy, but ii
IL vain.
y In the village of Arapi a who'll
iGreek community was imprisoned un
der the mere suspicion that they CAV
shelter to a brigand. In some place
nj Greek priests are tortured until the
die or until a confession is extorte
Is from them that they sympathize wit
lie the anti-Ottoman pan-hellenistic NOV
/ ement. After such a confession tn
a. whole Greek community suffers un
IN speakable tortures.
atl The Bishop of Greneva has mad
Id representations to the Turkish gov
es ternor but without any effect. He wa
scoffed at and threatened that h
Of | would himself be submitted to Sc
as we're i'll treatment If he did not kee
m Isilent The Greek Patriarch at Cor
Id stantinople is sending a memorar
ne dunn to the authorities at the capt.;
at as well as to the representatives {
81 foreign powers drawing their earnel
1T attention to the above facts and bel
Ill ging that prompt, energetic mea:
ali ures may be taken to put a speed
es end to such a deplorable state Of a
,Ie fairs