Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-05
HORRORS OF WAR.
Unprecedented Cruelty OF iurks-
Priests and Peasants Tortured
ana Slaughtered.

tility toward Europeans Is on the III
crease and shown more openly ana az
rogantly than ever. The lower classe
express their fierce animosIty wlthou
any attempt al concealment. Some
members of the various workmen
guilds have openly boosted that they
have taken a sacred vow to massacre
every Christian in Constantlnopit
.hould the Bulgarians enter the city
u should Roumania be severed iron
Turkey as a result of the war. Ia
natics are hourly seen swearing t
AXE terrible vengeance on the infidel
The Turkish theological students, al
ways a dangerous clement, are now
preaching violence to the mobs in out
of-the-way mosques.
On Sunday night a mob, armed With
swords and revolvers, marched aga!nsi
the European quarter, but the police
:nterferred, and arrested many Of the
demonstrators, who will be court-mar-
.iaied.
The patriarch Of the Greek Chur"r
has received information Of masss-
ere by Bashi-Bazouks at Rodosto.
Many instances of terrible atrocities
on the Serbo- Turkish frontier since
The war began, are given by the Serv-
ian Novelist Dragutin j. Hitch, in I.
letter to the London Budet. He says:
"In the village Of Dubrovatz, or
turkish territory, the Turks entered;
me house of a priest named Philip
!tuamanovitch, and selling him rough
iy, dragged him into the road and cut
off his nose, ears and lips. Thus mu-
:ilated, they paraded the priest
through the streets Of the village t.
show him to the peasantry. When,
finally, the unhappy man fell to the
road in his agony, the Turks gave him
a finishing stroke by putting bulle,
MS neau.
"From Dubrovatz the Turks pro-
ceeded to the next village, where they
seized another priest by name of Peter
Gacaline They treated him in sim
liar fashion, at last putting an end to
his sufferings by shooting him with q
revolver.
an the village of GraGina Turkish
soldiers caught an unfortunate peas
int named Voin Tanish and cut him up
nto morsels. In the town Of Gorne
-'ilitza the Turks captured man
:amed Millisavlevitch He was sum-
narily dispatched. The Turks cut off
MS head and mounted it upon a long
cole. The sole offense of the man was
That he had hidden his 10-year-old
granddaughter from the barbarian in
gaders.
"Altogether, in the village of Grad
IA, the Turks killed six people and
INITIATED the corpses. Then, purely
ror their own amusement, they bound
J lexis Kovanovitch an inoffensivc
aborer, to stake sunk in the main
;treet, made a circle On mis- forehead
and fired at it for rifle practice as a
Target. Needless to say. they rlddled
him with bullets. Turning from this
scene of amusement the Turks Gu.
off the ears and noses of three Servian
named BoshkOvitch, Say
Itch and Stephanovitch, and after
leading them around the little square
N the town for a half hour decapIta-
ted them. A poor old man who saw
these crimes covered his eyes with his
hands to shut out the horrible sights.
Noticing this, the Turks seized the
man, goughed out his eyes and left
him lying senseless in the streets.
'In the village of Buyanawatz they
.ook child Of eight years and d!sem-
,oweled him for the simple reason
hat he was a Servian.
"The Turks took exceptional pleas
IRE in the horrible usage Of a daugh-
aer OF a couple in manner which J
nav not indicate under the eyes OF
Ter anguished parents, or in the NAL
treatment Of wife in the sight OF her
husband. When they came upon q
Christian woman whose personal ap-
pcarance pleases them, they carry hel
off to their harcm, and if the parents
or husband complains to the autnor'
lies these officials turn deaf ear ana
he soldiers then take their revenge
by assassinating the Christian com
plainants by burning their homes, to-
gether with their contents.
"Here is an instance which occurret
between the towns of Ipek and Mona
stir Dechani. A young woman whose
name is Papovitch went o Monastlr t
see her parents. A passing Turk, per
ceiving her, called four of his frlendi
and pursued her. Seeing the IurH'
coming closer and closer the young
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