Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-15
The Balkan Nations, Turned
Butchers, Have Outraged
Humanity

The Balkan races have respect civilization
Saving only Greece which holds to the elements of human
y Christian warfare the Balkan within the fortnight
have proven themselves murderous savages
the savage Ferdinand of Bulgaria
There such fall in history swift sudden
from fame to infamy-from herosm to shame
The world of civilization with the Balkans in their war
blazoned holy warthe of the Christian
against the Unspeaable and Heather Turhe last
civilization upon centuries of buchery and cycles of
barbarity.
The crimson ghosts Albania and zetoun-the hoocausts
of Christian martyrs incneraed Turkish fires the battaons
of Christians they Christians the pic
of infants bayoneted before their mothers and moth
murdered with outrage preceding following fast on muir
der-aroused the public protest of the Christian world
Every in Christendom rang Bulgaria and the Bal
kans Every civilized prayer theirs The Georgian helped
lead vocaz the great procession of American sen
ment that bade gOdpeed the Balkan soldiers of the Cross
And their battle magnfCently All records of
history equaled if surpassed the battefeds of this
modern and magnificent crusade.
Step by step the Unspeaabe Turk driven back from
his baefeds of murder Inch by inch the Crescent yielded
the Cross.
Bulgaria swept from Adranople Chataa Greek battle
ships blocked transportation of Turkish troops and
sions of serva marched from her victorious battle
fields reinforce the Bugaans the crisis Adranop and
Chaaa and with the allied egons laundering at the despair
ing gates of Consannop Southwestern Europe passed from
the Crescent to Christ and great nation seemed to have
been born from the SavOnc ewre history and to shift
the balance of from the elder mOnarCm to the plains of
Thrace-now oonsecrated to liberty and humanity.
1t was an epoch in human history 1t was an Armageddon
rich the righteous triumph of the right above the wrong And
its glorious aftermath the annals of the Christian should
have been remade and amplifed.
But almost night the has changed The peace of
proclamation progressive savagery The
NOT
win like but quarreled like jacka the spoils of
victory
Bulgaria first in battle greed and her
hands with heather blood and presumng their
strength reached grasp Tire hroats of Christian allies and
seize the territory that Greece and Sera had helped like
heroes achieve Friends fastened their ngs into each other
vaS with erOcty ferce than they had shown their
foe.
The Balkan armies have become barbarous as
the Turks.
Their hatred for the Turk nothing their hatred
for each other.
hdeous greed territory blinded their eyes to every
sentiment of Christianity and to every creed of Christ
They caught Turk his boodest butcheries and
branded them upon their atricda strife The Bulgars Kill
kiss and Kur burned alive hundred before their
with fine savagery brualzed the
The Serb Belgrade shouted eers
dying of Bulgarian prisoners brought from the
fronts and hand hand with fist and foot with tooth
nail like prmeva savages fought Bugar and Serb who had
carried the Cross of Christ triumph above the nfde and
Unspealable Turk
The Balkan fortnight behind is outrage upon the
whole Christian world These apsed Christians these
formed avage of greed have within days lost the sympathy
of humanity and their place among civilized nations They
have struck staggering blow at the faith they followed
their religion and ours they have defed.
cried godspeed to the Balkan armies of
yesterday ready cry Down with the butch
of the Danube and the world ready approve APP
paud Austria any other power that will epossess terri
tory unworthy held and proceed to govern the people
obviously incapable and basey unequal to the task gov