The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1913-09-11
EXPOSE ATROCITIES
Creek Hu Captured N Dugxs
Tells Awful Story.
Torch Used Everywhere OF 1900
Prisoners At One Point Only
II We're left Alive.

So6a, Bulgaria-In order to prov
that Greek soldiers were responsible.
for numerous atrocities against IL.
Bulgarians in the fighting last Jul,
between Bulgaria and her former al
lies, Greecs, Servia and Montenegro
there have been made public In Soft
extracts from letter writtcns by Greek
soldier and officers to friends at home.
These letters were captured in q
mail box Of the Nineteenth regiment
OF the Seventh Greek division by Bull
garian troops In the vicinity Of Raj
log. They were given out by the Bull
garian photographic agency in pamphlet
form. Each letter 10 printed in fac
smile In the original Greek and is
followed by translation in French,
which gives the dates and names
signed TO each communication.
The first letter Is dated July II and
the last July 10. Extracts from some
OF these communications of Greek
soldiers and officers follow:
I'VE have burned all the villages
abandoned by the Bulgarians. They
burned the Greek villages and we the
Bulgarian villages. They massacre.
we massacre, and the Manlicher has
operated against each member of this
dishonest nation who has fallen into
cur hands. Out of 1900 prisoners that
we took at Nigrita only Al remained
In prison, and everywhere we went we
have left no root of this race"
Another letter from sergeant saws
I'VE burned the villages of Dautlli
md Banitza-nnd put everything to
he bayonet or the flame, making ex-
'eptions only Of women, children and
I'd people and churches. We did all
his without pity and without grace. !"
A third letter dated Nesto River, (
July IL, says: 4
Here at Vrondou / captured five
sulgarians and girl from Series. We I
nut them up in a police station. {
lille they were still alive we gouged
ut their eyes" Il
A letter dated Rhodopes, July IL. o
avs: L
From Series to the frontier we 81
urned every Bulgarian village" "
One dated July 13 says:
Everybody has fled from these Bull BIZ
arlan villages. Those who remain NJ
re eaten up by the Manlicher and gr
e have also burned some villages" -
A soldier named George, writing to Ey
s brother at home on July IL, SAYS: Gel
We have enraged the Bulgarians by sh
lrning their villages and whenever
lind one or two we kill them like we
arrows" Inf
Another Greek soldier writes to his
other: Ior
Inc Greek army is burning wher- the
er 1t finds Bulgarian village and il Ing
ssacres all those which it over Rio
les; things are happening which it isl
impossible to express. God knows
ere this business will end" eel
corporal writing to his brother bro
s. Z
NOT even cat has escaped where bas
have gone. We have burned every ceI
garian village through which we
e passed. This is all can tell
nder date of July IS, Thomas
antiotis writes from Rhodopes to an,
nd to say that NATURAL friend,
'tide, should not enlist. "Villages or
men are being burned, but we also
setting fires and are doing worse car
the Bulgarians, he says. are
letter from Mico Theophilatos at cor
.iata says: 2
They gave me 16 prisoners to take cal
vision headquarters and l turned
My two. The others were lost in len
darkness, massacred by myself" col
his letter bears the seal of the RE
eteenth regiment. in