Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-14
Correspondent TeIegraphs Sa-
Ioniki of the Sacking and
Burning of Seres.
KING FERDINAND DENIES
TRUTH OF THE CHARGES
Retreating Bulgarians Said to Have
Pillaged and Destroyed Hospitals.
Servian Victory Claimed.

.SALONIhl. July I4.-The Sacking and
| burning of the town Of Seres by the de-
feated Bulgarian army and the accom-
panying outrages on women and atroci-
ties on men were fully confirmed today
| in dispatch from we'll known Greek
correspondent
The retreating Bulgar rian soldiers he
telegraphs, opened a cannOnade with four
field guns from hill above the town
Friday. At the same time a band OF
Bulgarian soldiers. led by their officers
secured the streets. first pilla sing the
stores and houses and then drenching
them with petroleum and setting them
alight until the greater part of the town
was blazing
The soldiers We're accompanied by the
notorious revolutionary Col. YankOff
who. with other former officers of the
Bulgarian army. was very active in
Macedonia in 1903.
Even the foreign consulates i'm Seres
We're not spared, according. to the cor
respondent. the Austro- Hungarian con-
sular Offices were plundered and burned
Vice Consul George c. Zlatko being car
ried on by the marauders, but subse-
quently ransOmed. The Italian consulate
also was sacked, but the consul bought
OF the incendiarieS.
The Bank of Athens. the Oriental Bank,
the palace of the metropolitan, the Great
Synagogue all the schools. the tobacco
warehouses of the American, Austrian
and German companies and the hospitals
We're burned after they had been pillaged
The American Tobacco Company alone
suffered to the extent Of $1.OOO.0O0.
Incredible Outrages CommIrteo.
Many people were crucified, hacked to
pieces or burned alive by the maddened
Bulgarians. who committed incredible
outrages on women of all ages, many of
whom died from the effects.
The condition of those who escaped is
lamentable. Rich merchants are dying Of
hunger while wretched mothers are try
ing to find covering and food for their
naked and starving children.
The situation is desperate. as all the
pharmacies were burned down and there
is total lack of medicines for the sick
and bandages for the injured.
The Greek authorities In Saloniki are
rushing foodstuffs, clothing and medi-
cines to the stricken town.
MilNon-Dollar Loss Doubted.
NEW YORK, July 14.-Oficers OF the
American Tobacco Company said today
that they had received no private advices
concerning the destruction of their ware
house at Seres, Macedonia They were
inclined to doubt that. the loss was a
million dollars as stated in cable dis
patches.
King Ferdinand Denies Stories.
LONDON, July liking Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria In long message dispatched
from Sofia on July IL informs the Even
ing News:
1.-THE stories and reports which the
Greeks and Servians have been circulat-
ing in Europe concerning so-called out
RACES committed by my troops upon the
edonia are absolutely unfounded and are
published with the object of creating a
bad impression
King Ferdinand proceeds to tell of the
liberties enjoyed by the people of Adrian
ople without regard to their nationality
and closes with the allegation:
Systematic attacks and prosecutions
have been directed against the Bulga-
rian element in Macedonia by the Ser
vians and the Greeks. The districts of
been cleared Of all well educated men,
and the prisons OF Saloniki are over
flowing with innocent Bulgarians.
Great numbers OF Bulgarians have
the country to Greece and to the is
lands in the Aegean sea. The
same cruel regime has been applied to
the Bulgarians in the regions occupied
by the servians. The purely Bulgarian
town Of Kukush has been completely
burned by the Greek troops"
Thousands of refugees. King Ferdinand
concludes, on arriving in Sofia gave ter
rifying accounts of the horrible deeds
committed by the Servians and the
Greeks. The Bulgarian government Is
ready to come to an international inquiry
which will enlighten the world concern
ing the stories Of these excesses."
Report Oficially Confirmed.
The Bulgarian minister to Roumania
and the staff of the legation left today
on a special train for Sofia.
The report that detachments OF Rou-
manian cavalry have occupied Dobritch.
BaItchik and the surrounding villages is
officially confirmed
Servians Seize Strategic Point.
LONDON, July IA dispatch from
Cskup to the Times says the fighting
which the Bulgarians maintained for
several days on the north side OF Egri
Palanka was terminated Friday at mid !
night by a decisive Seryian surprise ad
vance. which resulted almost beyond the
Servians' widest hopes.
So complete was the surprise that un-
der the dashing assault the Bulgarians
crumbed and were chased to PatariZa,
where the Servians seized a position of
the greatest strategical Importance, domI- |
mating and commanding wide section of
the frontier.
This capture, adds the dispatch, greatly
reduces the chances of Bulgarian coun-
ter invasion unless Gen. Demitrief should
be able to deliver a sledgehammer blow
with overwhelming numbers.