The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-11-14
TERRIBLE ATROCITIES
Being Perpetrated Daily by
Turkish Soldiers on Women
and Children

villages Being Ransacked and Burn
ed and Christian Women and Chill
drcp Tortured and MutiIated-I
United states Sends warships TO
ConstantinopIe TO Insure Safety Of
Americans.
Washington. D. c., dispatch of
saturday says:
Calling together his cabinet for the
first time since August %, President
Taft today left before it a number of
opestions of primary Importance,
among them the protection OF Ameri-
ran citizens in Turkey and the Bal
kan States, the annual message to
Congress, the budget system and the
questions of pensions for government
clerks.
only the first was definitely dispos-
cd Of. the cabinet unanimously up
holding their chief in his determina-
ton to send warships to CONSTANT
nople to insure the safety of Ameri-
cans in hostile territory.
London correspondent tells of
horrible atrocities by Turks.
London, Nov. S-Appealing to his
paper to bring home to the govern
ment and the people the fact that
terrible atrocities are being perpe-
trated daily by men in uniform call
ing themselves Turkish soldiers, the
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
cables from Epirus, headquarters of
the Greek army:
Such influence as Great Britain
possesses should be brought to bear
upon the Turkish government in or
der to bring about Immediate cessa-
ton Of these horrible atrocities, the
widest details of which you would
hardly dare print. By the expressed
wish of the general officer command
ing the army at Epirus | myself to-
day held an impartial enquiry. Wit
ness after witness was brought be-
fore me and cross examined in Turk
ish and also through an Interpreter
in Greek. They told their tale in the
simplest language. They gave the
most revolving details in cold bare
words. They had no idea of who
was or the purpose of their eXamina-
ton. There was no attempt to i'm
press me with their story. I had in
fact to drag it out of them in simple
words with questions in which | sug-
gested nothing. The tales all tailed
and am prepared to pledge my word
that their story was but a bald state
ment of facts.
Into the more revolving and more
obscene details of the wild excuses
Of the Turkish soldiers, jagged on by
their officers at Kumuzadis, | cannot
go Suffice it to say that many men
were treacherously murdered by the
wholesale, and the old men and wo-
men tortured to death with fire
Young women and children were vio-
lated and maltreated with shocking
cruelty. To add to this every object
of value portable was stolen and the
rest of the village was given to
flames.
To-day hatless refugees from
kumuzadis, Turkish Christian sub
jects, be it remembered, are being
tended and fed by the Greek author
tiles
Tortured women and mutilated
children can be seen in Arda. / have
seen them and spoken to them and I
have read with appalling sorrow
what lies behind their eyes. Even as
l write a general staff officer has
come with news that thirty more viii
lagos have been sacked and burned
and their populace subjected to tor
ture and rapine
IF Christian Europe gives this
land back into Turkish hands it will
be an act of barbarity and a dis
grace to Christiandom. No words Of
mine can paint the horrors that are
our daily tidings. l beg you so to
put the facts before the people of
Great Britain that under no circum-
stances will this sorely tortured land
be given back to those who are now
rendering it hell upon earth
The Telegraph adds note that
one passage was omitted describing
some CT the outrages. They are of
such nature that we refrained from
reproducing Them" says the note.
New York, Nov. 8.-"The Bulga-
rlans are now bombarding Constan-
unople. The city is fast falling into
ruins. The turks are massacreing
the Christians