The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-28
Writer Reveals Fiendish Acts
Committed by Turks.
Bulqar Soldiers, Maddened by Treat
ment Of Their Countrymen, Show
MosIem Troops--Won7en Are
Horribly Mutilated.

Kabaktcha 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 Tcbatalja. Though
from all appearances the old regime
of murder, mutilation and injustice
will soon be forever ended, the fear
struck Turkish population is moving
southwark again toward Asia Minor,
whence it came, while the Bulgar
peasants OF the Tchatalja district are
fleeing as nervously north. Amid
these scenes of exodus. one is led to
think it 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 Bulgarian frontier the
atrocious tale begins.
Well, the moment the war was de-
clared the Turks began to loot and
burn the Bulgar villages. But as
the stern soldiers from the north
pressed down, winning victory after
victory. the Turkish population. per-
haps rightly fearing vengeance in kind
from the men who found their blood
Kin wronged and slain right and left,
set off on frantic migration to Con-
stantinople, where they arrived in the
pitiable state already known to the
world. OF such Turks as stayed be-
hind the Bulgars felt forced to kill
some. Others they put TO work with
the army transports, still others they
left in peace, their villages intact,
just as one finds also Bulgar villages
intact-where the Turks did not have
time to do a thorough job
We expected" said a Bulgar officer
with whom I talked az Tchatalja, Ito
find rich and plenteous country as
we neared Constantinople. We found
instead-what you see, nothing, Hard
ly living being. Utter devasta-
! tom"
/ met an old Bulgarian woman near
Tchorlu who was the first Red Cros !
nurse upon the ground after the ter
rible 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. 4 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
1t is not difficult to verify such
stories. They are common knowl-
/ edge here. The Bulgar peasant has
no Imagination. He tells what he
sees. will give one more example
/ According to the Mohammedan re-
| ligion, pork is unclean and is forbid
den. For Turk to kill pig is thus
! considered special insult to Chris
tian. The advancing Bulgars found
many pigs shot down or stabbed in
farm yards
The Bulgars began the war in a
humane spirit, as such terms go in
I war time. But not soldier in that
army of 100000 is ignorant now Of
certain fiendish evidence his comrades
have witnessed. In the fighting at
! Tchatalja, the Bulgars, having ad-
vanced during the day. were fire.
| quently obliged to retire at night leav-
ing their wounded on the field
| When the next days fortunes
brought them again over the same
ground they found only stripped bod
les gruesomely hacked. while the Of
| ficers' corpses had beer mutilated in
d way so much more disgusting than
anything | have hitherto mentioned
that l cannot even write of it. think
even kindly people in their tranquil
homes across the world in America
will understand the reason now. when
(. | add shat should the war continue,
no more Turkish wounded will be sent
Forth to be nursed in Sulgar hospit-