Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-15

bazoned almost holy warthe OF the Christian
nations against the Unspeaab and Heather Turk-the last
civilization upon centuries of butchery and cycles of
barbarity
The crimson ghosts Albania Zeounhe holocausts
of Christian martyrs ncnerated in Turkish fires the baaons
of Christians they Christians the pic
bayoneted before their mothers and moth
murdered with outrage preceding following fast on muir
the public protest of the Christian world
Every voice in Chsendom rang for Bulgaria and the Bal
Every civilized prayer theirs The Georgian helped
lead vocaSe the great procession of American sent
men that babe gOdped to the Balkan soldiers Of the Cross
And their battle magnifcenly All records of
history equaled not surpassed the baeds of this
modern and magnificent crusade.
Step by step the Unspealabe Turk driven back from
his baeeds of murder Inch by inch the Crescent yielded to
the Cross
Bulgaria swept Adranope Chatala Greek battle
ships blocked the transportation of Turkish troops and provi
marched her victorious battle
the Bugarans the crisis Adranope and
Chaaa and with the allied eons laundering at the despair
ing gates of Consantnope Southwestern Europe passed from
the Crescent Christ and great nation seemed have
been born from the Savonc ewte history and to shift
the balance Of power from the elder monarCe the plains of
Thrace-now consecrated to liberty and humanity.
was an epoch in human history It was an Armageddon
rich in the righteous triumph Of the right above the wrong And
glorious the Christian should
have been remade and amplifed.
But almost night the has changed The of
London became the proclamation progressive savagery The
who endured like martyrs and fought like lions could
win like men, but quarreed like jaoas the spois of
victory.
Bulgaria first battle foremost in greed and her
hands with heather blood and presumng their
strength reached grasp the Threats Christian allies and
seize the territory that Greece and Serva had helped like
heroes achieve Friends fastened their fang into each other
va with ferocity fercer than they had shown their
foe
The Pa1Iys To have barha
the Turks.
for each other.
The hdeOus greed of territory blinded their eyes every
sentiment of Christianity and to every creed of Christ
They caught from his boodest butcheries and
branded them upon their fratrcida strife The Bugars Kill
kiss and Kuru burned alive hundred before
tortured wives with fine savagery brutazed the
Turk The Serb Belgrade shouted eers and Kisses
dying Bulgarian prisoners brought the battle
fronts and hand to hand with fist and foot with tooth
nail like prmeva svages fought Bugar and Serb who had
carried the of Christ triumph above the and
Unspeakable Turk
The Balkan fortnight behind an outrage upon the
whole Christian world These apsed Christians these
formed savages greed have within days the sympathy
of humanity and their place among civilized
have struck staggering blow the faith they followed and
their religion and ours they have defled
The nations that cried godspeed Balkan armies of
yesterday ready cry Down with the
of the Danube and the world ready approve ap
paud Austria any other power that will repossess terri
tory unwory held and proceed govern people
obviously incapable and basey unequal the gov