The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-02-25
Writer Reveals FiendiSh Acts
Committed by Turks.
Buiear Soldiers, Maddened by Treat.
ment Of Their countrymen. Show
Mosiem Troops-Women Are
Horribly Mutiiated.

habaktcha Village. near TchatalJa.
Owing partly TO the fear OF bloody
vengeance TO come for the horrors OF
this war. partly to more natural
causes, great migratory changes are
taking place In that rich eastern sec
ton OF Turkey in Europe through
which the Bulgars swept on their hur-
ricane storm to Tchatalja. Though
IRON all appearances the old regime
or murder. mutilation and Injustice
viii soon be forever ended. the fear
struck Turkish population is moving
southwark again toward Asia Minor.
whence ii came. while the Bulgar
peasants of the Tchatalja district are
feeing as nervously north. Amid
these scenes OF exodus. ono is led to
think 1t may yet not be TOO late to
bring some order IN the Balkan racial
chaos.
MEANWHILE the Turks have waged
the present conflict in their old style
burning. violating. massacring. AL
most at the Bulgariap frontier the
atrocious tale begins
Well, the moment the warsss de
=
clared the Turks began to loot and
burn the Bulgar villages But az
the stern soldiers from the north
pressed down, winning victory after
victory. the Turkish population. per
maps rightly fearing vengeance in kind
from the men who found their blood
Rim wronged and slain right and left.
set on on frantic migration to Con.
stantinople. where they arrived in the
pitlable state already known to the
world. or such Turks as stayed be-
hind the Bulgars felt forced to kill
some. Others they put 10 work with
the army transports. still others they
lef, in peace. their villages intact,
Just rs one finds also Bulgar villages
intact-where the Turks did not have
time TO do thorough job
We expected" said a Buigar officer
with whom ] talked at Tchatalja. ito
md n rich and plenteous country as
we neared Constantinople. We found
instead-"hat you see, nothing. Hard.
iy a living being, Utter devasta.
tom"
] met an cid Bulgarian woman near
Tchorlu who was the first Red Cross
rarse upon the ground after the ter
Iible destruction at Lule Burgas. She
said that on her way TO the field hos
pital she was sent to the succor OF a
Greek village where the Turks had
scattered ruin. Unlock your western
ears now, and hear the truth She
found young girls lying naked by the
roadside nearly dead. She found chill.
dren stricken down by careless sa.
bers. A housewife had been muir
dered as she kneaded her bread, the
dough still on her hands. And In a
bloody sack the Turks had gathered
Women's breasts.
IL is not difficult to verify such
stories They are common knowi.
edge here. The Bulsar peasant has
no imagination. lie tells what he
sees will give one more example
According 10 the Mohammedan re-
ligion. pork is unclean and is forbid.
den. For Turk TO kill a pig is thus
considered a special insult to a Chris.
tian. The advancing Bulgars found
many pigs shot down or stabbed ia
farm yards
The BulgaTs began the war In a
humane spirit. as such terms 20 IN
war time. But not a soldier in that
army OF 100000 is ignorant now OF
certain fiendish evidence his comrades
have Witnessed. In the lighting al
TchatalJa. ths Bulgars. having ad-
yanced during the day. we're fire.
quently Obliged 10 retire at night. iesv-
ing their wounded on the field
When the next days fortunes
brought them again over the same
ground they found only stripped Sod.
les gruesOmely hacked. while the OF.
flcers' eorpses had besn mutilated IN
way so much more disgusting than
anything ! have hitherto mentioned
that cannot even write OF t. think
even kindly people In their tranquil
nomes across ,ne world Ia America
will understand the reason now, when
add nat should the war continue.
40 more Turkish wounded will be sent
north TO be nursed IN 3uigsr hospit