The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-07-24
BALKAN ATROCITIES
ARE CONFIRMED
A vERiTA6LE HOLOCAUST OF
RAPINE AND MURDER.
HORRORS MOST UNBELIEVABLE
King, Constantine Sends Cable To
America Saying Murders by Bull
sarians Are Unparalleled In
Worlds History.


Athens, July 49, - Authenticated
news of massacre, mutilation and a
veritable holocaust of rapine and
murder as being visited upon the in
habitants of Sores and the surround
ing country by the Bulgarian troops
is reported here today in the form of
la long statement from the Austrian
consul at Salonika. The official
charges several Bulgarian officials,
and he blames their regiment and
company with having dishonored his
wife in the presence of scores of sol
diers and hundreds of inhabitants
who later were shot down. The
Austrian consul's story was appall-
ing. Outrages by the Bulgarian SOL
diers included in many instances
names of notables burned to death
and numerically hacked to pieces.
The Seres has also reported the re-
ports confirmed The charges by
| the Austrian consul say about eighty
women and girls were found hidden
in basement of warehouse by a
company of soldiers led by their lieu
tenant and it is declared that after
the young women, some of them girls
of tender age, had been dishonored,
the soldiers secured several barrels
Of petroleum oil from a near by store
house, poured it over the place and
locked all exits and set fire to the
building. The bodies of the dead
were found by the investigating COM
mittse Some of the bodies were
headless and numbers had been dis
membered. In large public hall
twenty officials and women and men
of the town we're herded by the SOL
diers who stabbed them with bayo-
nets and then carried them to a
| trench and covered them partly with
earth. Several were alive when cast
into the trench.
| The committee reports the number
of murdered will never be known, but
| that it win reach into the thousands.
Property damage through fire and the
looting of stores and private resi-
ldences, the committee believe, will
be close to twenty million dollars.
Much OF this was portable and in
lcluded rings, jewelry, silverware and
rare tapestries
$1,000 ". s. May Take Action.
Washington. July 19.--Formal pro
test may be made by this government
against the massacres In the Balkans,
II the charges made by King Constan.
| tine of Greece in cablegram to this
country are sustained.
| A resolution is expected to be intro
duced in congress shortly asking for
information from the state depart
ment of the massacres.3 II the charges
made by King Constantine are accur-
ate. the number of dead may reach
10000. ,.....
Greek King Tells Of Atrocities.
New York, July liking Constan-
tine of Greece, from his headquarters
at Hadji Beilik, near Sores, sends a
detailed account of the atrocities of
the Bulgarians in Macedonia. He de,
clares that only the precipitate fight
of the inhabitants of the villages and
towns prevented still greater slaugh.
ter. 49,. ,a.- W.. s. @.
The following is the kings message,
through Col. Dousmani, chief of gen.
eral staff of his majesty:
"Hadji Beilik, July 1S.--ln reply to
your dispatch of the 18th instant. |
have the honor to communicate to
you the following information on the
Bulgarian atrocities, committed at the
outset of hostilities against the Greek
and Mussulman inhabitants OF Mace.
donia
THE first city to be scourged was
Nigrita. A large number of its people
who had remained at their homes
after the events occurring In the
Pangheon district were massacred by
the retreating enemy. who did not fail
to light the path of their fight by the
flames OF the city to which they had
applied the torch
THE correspondents OF LIE Temps
and the Daily Telegraph who visited
the locality the day after the massa-
cres, merely confirmed In greater de-
tail the dispatches of the commanders
of our troops.
The precipitate fight of the pea
hdHtS III ttue 6uFTuuHuIHB NillhscS 10
the only reason why we have not a
greater number of victims to deplore.
On our left wing 700 Mussulmans of
the environment OF Killiesseh, a nest
of Bulgarian comitadjis irregular
troops) shared the same fate. Two
of our officers. who. in bayonet as
sault, had been left lying wounded on
the field few steps from the enemy's
trenches, we're found, when the attack
was renewed. to have had their eyes
gouged out.
Dragged from Homes.
AT Doiran, before their flight. the
enemy dragged the metropolitan and
thirty of the leading citizens from
their homes. They have never been
seen again.
The religious leader OF the Mus
sulmans. with tears in his eyes, told
us of the spollations and pillage OF
the Bulgarian officers and soldiers.
AT Trdmitza. fortunately. the enc.
my had time to kill only two Of the
persons imprisoned. But all these
things are as nothing compared with
what happened at pimirhissar. Sores