The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-17
HORRIBLE UTRAGES
ARE COMMITTED BY
BULGARIAN ARMY
Butcher Men,, Outrage
Women and Rae
City,.
BLOCKING PEACE
Massacers in Sores So Arouse
Greeks They Will Not
End the War.
BLOCKING PEACE

Saloniki, Greece-The sackine
and burning of the town of Sores by
rne defeated Bulgarian army and
accompanying outrages on women and
atrocities on men, are fully con-
flrmed in dispatches from a we'll
known Greek correspondent.
The %retreating Bulgarians. he tele-
graphs, opened their cannonade with
Tour field guns from the hill above
town on Friday. At the same time
the ranks og Bulgarians, led by Off
GERS, secured the streets, first pillag-
ing the stores and houses, then
drenching them with petroleum and
setting them afire until the greater
part of the town was blazing. The
soldiers were accompanied by a
notorious revolutionary, Colonel
Cankoff.
Even foreign consulates in Sores
were not spared, according to the
correspondent. The Austria-Hun-
gary consuls offices We're p%lundered
and burnes. Vice Counsel Gesseg C.
Zlatke was carried off but suisse
quently returned. The Italian con-
sulate was also sacked but the
consul bought off the incendiaries.
The banks, the palace of the Metliro-
poltan, the Greek synagogue, schools
and tobacco warehouses of Amcri-
can, Austrian, and German compan-
les, were burned after being pillaged.
The American company alone suffer-
ed a loss of 81 900, 900.
Many people We're crucified, hack
ed to pieces and burned alive by the
maddened Bulgarians, who COM
mltted incredible outrages on women
OF all ages, many of whom died
from the effects. Rich merchants
are dying, hungry. Wretched mothers
are trying to find covering and food
for their naked and starving children.
The Greek authorities in Saloniki
are rushing food stuffs, clothing and
medicines to the stricken town.
Greece Demands Revenge.
Athens. Greece-King Constantine
has sent the following message to the
Greek minister of foreign affairs:
The commander of the sixth di-
vision reports hat Bulgarian soldiers
carrying out the orders of their cap
tain, gathered together in the court
yard of the schotel at Demirhissar
two priests and over N hundred 40
tables, whom they massacred. The
bodies have been disinterred in order
to prove the crime. Bulgarian sold
lers violated girls, one of whom, re-
slsting, was cut to pieces.
Protest in my name to the repre-
sentatives of the civilized powers aga-
inst the acts of these monsters in hui
man form. Protest also to the entire
civilized world and say that, to my
regret, | see myself compelled to
wreak vengeance in order to inspire
those monsters with terror and make
them reflect before committing more
outrages of this sort.
1.-The Bulgarians have surpassed
all the horrors OF barbaric times, and
have proved that they no longer nave
a right to be reckoned mon civiliZ-
ed people,"
h commander of the seventh di-
vision reports that the town of Sores
has been burned with the exception
of the Jewish and Mussulman quart
ers. Many men,, women and children
were found murdered or burned in
their homes. Twenty thousand per-
sons are without shelter.
London, England.-King Ccnstan-
tines protest to the civilized world
against Bulgarian atrocities destroys
the last hope of those who believed
that Russia would succeed in Undue
ing tne delllSefenlS 10 accept arDltra-
ton. The spectators of the struggle
have been confident throughout
that Servia would prove amenable to
the councils of moderation in view of
the appalling losses she sustained in
ejecting the Bulgarians from Mace
donia, but We're less hopeful that
Greece would listen to reason, as her
people and army are obviously in
%toxicated by the victories over the
decayed Bulgars.
Dispatches from Constantinople
late last night indicate that Bulgaria
may not merely be stripped of the
fruits of her victory over the Turk,
but possibly may have to submit to
diminution of her own territory, for
Roumania is credited with the inten-
ton of anneXing a larger strip than
she at first proclaimed, while Turkey
is joining hands with Servia and
Greece and has already ordered her
troops to advance.
Beyond briefly checking the unop-
posed advance OF the Roumanians,
Sofia maintains a significant silence
regarding the opinions of the Ser
vians and Greeks.