The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-07-17
FLEEING BULGARS
COMMIT 0UTRAGES
WITHOUT PARALLEL

My U" NC H1IH
burning of the town of Sores by the
defeated Bulgarian army and the ac-
companylng outrages on women and
atrocities on men, were fully confirmed
today in a dispatch from a we'll known
Greek correspondent.
The retreating Bulgarian soldiers. he
telegraphs, opened a cannonade with
four field guns from a hin above the
town on Friday. AT the same time
bands of Bulgarian soldiers led by their
officers secured the streets, first pill
laying 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 no
torious revolutionary colonel, Yankoff,
who with former officers of the Bull
garlan army, was very active in Mace
donia in 1908.
Even the foreign consulates in Sores
were not spared, according to the cor
respondent. The Austro-Hungarian
consular offices were plundered and
burned, Vice Consul Zelatko being car
ried off by the m~arauders, but subse-
quently ransomed. The italian consul
ate was also sacked, but the consul
bought off the incendiaries.
Nothing Held Sacred.
The Sank of Athens, the Oriental
bank, the Palace of the Metropolitan,
the great synagogue, all the schools,
the tobacco warehouses of the Ameri-
can. 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 81, 0O0, 900.
Many people were crucified, hacked
to pieces or burned alive by the mad
dened Bulgarians. who committed in
credible outrages on women of all ages,
many Of whom died from h effects.
The condition of those who escaped
was lamentable. Rich merchants are
dying of hunger, while Wretched
mothers are trying to find covering and
food for their and starving chill
dren.
The situation is desperate as all the
pharmacies were burned and there IS
total lack of medicines for the sick and
bandages for the injured.
ExcEssEs CHARGED TO SERBS
AND GREEKS BY BULGAR KING
London, July liking Ferdinand, of
Bulgaria, in a long message dispatched
from Sofia on July 10, informs the
Evening News:
The stories and reports which the
Greeks and S%ervians have been cir
culating in Europe concerning So
called outrages committed by my troops
on the Greek and Servian populations
in Macedonia, are absolutely %unfounded
and published with the object Of cre-
atlnS a DAD impression.
King Ferdinand told of the liberties
enjoyed by the people of A~drianople
without regard to their nationality n
closes with the allegation:
Systematic attacks and prosecutions
have been directed against the Bull
garian element in Macedonia by the
Servians and the Greeks. The districts
of Kastoria, Florina and Vodena have
been clear of all military educated men
and the prisons of Saloiniki are over
flowing with innocent Bulgarians.
Great numbers of Bulgarians have been
transported from their homes in the
country to Greece and to the islands
of the Aegean sea.
The same cruel regime has been APP
piled to the Bulgarians in the regions
occupied by the Servians. The purely
Bulgarian town of Kukush has been
completed burned by the Greek troops,
Thousands of refugees, King Ferdi-
nand concludes. on arriving in Sofia,
gave terrifying reports of the horrible
deeds committed by the Servians and
the Greeks. The Bulgarian govern
ment is ready to come to an interna-
tional inquiry which will enlighten the
world concerning the stories of these
excuses"