Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-16
TELLS OF ATROCITIES
Writer Reveals Fiendjsh Acts
 Committed hy Turks.
suigar Soldiers, Maddaned by Treat. ment of Their Countrymen, Show Mos!em Troops-Wonan Are
 Horribly Mutilated,

kabaktcha Village near Tchata1ig --OWlng partly to the fear of bloody vengeance to come for the horrors of thls war, partly to more natural causes, great migratory changes are taking place ill that rich eastern sec. ton Of Turkey in Europe through which the Bulgars swept OF their hur- rlcane storm to Tchatalja. Though rom all appearances the old regime Of murder. mutilation and injustice Will soon be forever ended the fear stfuck Turkish population is moving southWard again toward Asia Minor, whence it came, while the Bulear peasants of the Tchatalja district are neelng as neryously north Amid these scenes of exodus one is led to thlnk It may yet not be too late to bring some order in the Balkan racial chaos.
 Meanwhile. the Turks have Waged the present conflict in their old style burning, violating, massacring. AZ most at the Bulgarian frontier the atrocious tale begins.
 We'll the moment the war was de clared the Turks began to loot and burn the BuIgar villages. But as the stern soldiers from the north pressed down, winning victory after victory, the Turkish population per haps rightly fearing vengeance in kind from the men who found their blood kin Wronged and slain right and left, set off on a frantic migration to Con- stantlnople, where they arrived in the pltlable state already known to the world. Of such Turks as stayed be- hind the Bulgars felt forced to kill some. Others they put to work with the army transports, still others they left in peace, their villages intact, just as one finds also Bulgar villages intact-where the Turks did not have time to do a thorough job.
 We expected, said a Bulgar officer with whom l talked at Tchatalja, ito find rich and plenteous country as we neared Constantinople. We found instead-what you see, nothing, Hard ly living being! Utter devasta- tion,", .. ..= ...s'i l met an old Bulgarian woman near Tchorlu who was the first Red Cross nurse upon the ground after the ter rible destruction at Lule Burgas She said that on her way to the field hos pital she was sent to the suceor of Greek village where the Turks had scattered ruin. Unlock your western ears now, and hear the truth. She found young girls lying naked by the roadside nearly dead. She found chil- dren stricken down by careless sa- bers. A housewife had been mur- dered as she kneaded her bread, the dough still on her hands. And in a bloody sack the Turks had gatheNd- women's hreasts
 It is not difficult to verify such stories. They are common knowl- edge here. The Bulgar peasant has no imagination. He tells what he sees I will give one more example. According to the Mohammedan re- ligion, pork is unelean and is forbid den. For a Turk to kill pig is thus considered a special insult to Chris tian. The advancing Bulgars found !; many pigs shot down or stabbed in farm yards
 The Bulgars began the war in a humane spirit, as such terms go in war time But not soldier in that army of 100000 is ignorant now of certain fiendish evidence his comrades have witnessed. In the fighting at Tchatalja, the Bulgars, having ad- vanced during the day, were ire quently obliged to retire at night. leay- ing their woEnded on the field When the next days fortunes brought them again over the same ground they found only stripped bod ies gruesomely hacked, while the of- ficers' corpses had been mutilated ln a way so much more disgusting than anything I have hitherto mentioned that I cannot even write of it. l think even kindly people in their tranquil homes across the world i'll America will understand the reason now, when I add that should the war continue, no more Turkish wounded will be sent north to be nursed in 5ulgar hospit- l als While the Bulgars pass hereatt- or there will be no Turkish wounded. | Doubtless there are many good l Turks. No one who has seen the pale and delicate faces of the Moslem wom- an refugees can look on them without nifty. But the basic fact remains:
 The ways of the Turk are not the
 ways of Europe