The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-09-12
ATROCITIES BY
= GREEKS EXPOSED
letters Captured by Bulgarians
Tell of MasSacreS.
.h Used Everywhere OF 1900
iO' prisoners at One Point Only
IL Were left Alive.

-. Creek soldiers were responsible
-. numerous atrocities against the
Librarians in the fighting last July
.9oon Bulgaria and her former al
~. Greece, Servia and Montenegro,
l, n,o have been made public in Sofia
'nt trscts from letter writtens by Greek
eA ,I;ors and officers to friends at home.
SOi These letters were captured in a
II hox of the Nineteenth regiment
mai 4be Seventh Greek division by Bull
u .r s troops in the vicinity of Raj
ga They we're given out by the Bull
~ nsrian Geographic agency in pamphlet
s1rm Each letter is printed in fac
l1 ;miIe in the original Greek and is
s s by translation in French,
H -G gives the dates and names
.ianed to each communication.
The first letter is dated July II and
.ho last July Is. Extracts from some
~ these communications Of Greek
soldiers and officers follow:
"We have burned all the villages
abandoned by the Bulgarians. They
burned the Greek villages and we the
Pnlgarian villages. They massacre,
NO massacre, and the Manlicher has
onerated against each member of this
dishonest nation who has fallen into
our hands. Out of 1900 prisoners that
We took at Nigrita only Al remained
in prison, and everywhere we went we
have left no root of this race. T"
Another letter from sergeant says:
"We burned the villages of Dautlli
and Banitza-and put everything to
the bayonet or the flame, making ex-
ceptions only of women, children and
old people and churches. We did all
this without pity and without grace"
A third letter dated Nesto River,
July u, says:
Here at Vrondou l captured five
Bulgarians and girl from Series. We
shut them up in a police station.
While they were still alive we gouged
out their eyes,"
A letter dated Rhodopes, July II,
says:
"From Series to the frontier we
burned every Bulgarian village"
One dated July 13 says:
Everybody has fled from these Bull
garan villages. Those who remain
are eaten up by the Manlicher and
we have also burned some villages.
A soldier named George, writing to
his brother at home on July IL, says:
We have enraged the Bulgarians by
burning their villages and whenever
we find one or two we kill them like
sparrows."
Another Greek soldier writes to his
brother:
"The Greek army is burning wher-
ever it finds Bulgarian village and it
massacres all those which it over
takes; things are happening which it
is impossible to express. God knows
where this business will end"
A corporal writing to his brother
says:
wv NfSli q IoC IlQo OSCoROA WAOAO
we have gone. We have burned every
Bulgarian village through which we
have passed. This is all / can tell
YOU"
Under date of July 13, Thomas
Lahantiotis writes from Rhodopes to
friend to say that a NATURAL friend,
Arlstlde, should not enlist. villages
and men are being burned, but we also
are setting fires and are doing worse
nan the Bulgarians, he says.
A letter from Mico Theophilatos at
Mexiata says:
They gave me 16 prisoners to take
70 DIVISION headquarters and / turned
IN only two. The others were lost in
VIE darkness, massacred by myself"
". lnls letter bears the seal Of the
Nineteenth regiment