The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-07-23
THE ATROCITIES
Of BULGAR|ANS
Are Described BY King
Constantine.
EYES Of WOUNDED SOLDIERS
GOuged 0ut-VictimS Fright.
fully Tortured-CitieS
Laid Waste.
PILLAGE AND MURDER GALORE

New YORK, July ly.-hlng COn-
stantine of Greece, from his head
quarters at Hadji Beilik, near Sc
res. sends to the Associated Press
detailed account of the atrocities of
the Bulearians in Macedonia. He
declares that only the precipitate
fight of the inhabitants of the vii
lagos and towns prevented a still
greater slaughter.
The following is the Kings mes
sage, through Col. Douamani. chief
of general staff of His Majesty:
Associated Press, New York.
Hadji Beilik. July lin reply to
your dispatch of the 10th 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 inhabi
tants of Macedonia.
1.-The first city to be scourged was
Nigrita. A large number of its peo-
Pile who had remained at their
homes after the events occurring in
the Pangheon district -were massa-
cred 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.
1.-The correspondent of the lie
Temps and the Daily Telegram who
visited the locality the day after the
massacres, merely confirmed in
greater detail the dispatches of the
commanders of our troops.
THE precipitate fight of the
peasants in the surrounding villages
is the only reason why we have not
a greater number of victims to de-
plore.
''On our left wing 700 Mussul-
mans of the environments of Kill
kish, nest of Bulgarian Comitadjis
irregular troops) shared the same
fate Two of our officers who in a
bayonet assault had been left lying
wounded on the field a few steps
from the enemy's trenches, were
found, when the attack was renew
ed, to have had their eyes gouged
out.
AT Dorian, before their hurried
fight, the enemy dragged the Met
ropolitan 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 spoliations and pillage of
the Bulgarian officers and soldiers
AT Strumitza, fortunately, the
enemy had time TO kill only two of
the persons imprisoned. But all
these things are as nothing compar-
ed with what happened at Dimir-
hissar. Sores and Doxato, where
everything was sacked by fire and
sword.
THE city of Sores is nothing
more than a mass of smoking ruins,
filled with mutilated corpses of old
men. women and children.
THE Consuls General of Italy
and Austria at Saloniki who visited
Sores for the purpose of establish
ing to what extent their nations
have suffered. have told us that the
accounts published in the newspa-
pers gave but a faint idea of the
terrible reality.
AT Dimirhissar the elimination
of the mutilated bodies of the Met
ropolitan and the leading citizens
have convinced us that our enemy
is not satisfied to pillage. burn, de-
spoil and murder. but he rejoices in
torturing his victims.
"Doxato is no longer anything
but a pool of blood. or its $500
inhabitants only $50 remained. A
great number of the little villages
along the route taken by the fleeing
army were the scenes Of like atroc-
tiles"