New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-09
riuhting Ic Constant, but VIC
tory Must Be Quick, Else
BumanianS Oppose Her.
B8IGANDS BURN 700 ALIVE
vrsnch Priest Accuses Bull
Carians of Atrocity-War
Reduces Former Allies
to Savagery.
fBy Gable to The Tribune


1ordon, July S.--Bulgaria is now
aiming blow at the heart of Servia
., an attempt to win a decisive ad-
,sntage against her former allies, Ser
,so Greece and Montenegro. with
,bom she quarrelled over the spoils
,,ken from Turkey. She must strike
svift1v and strike hard. II is stated on
,gh diplomatic authority that on
Wednesday a Rumanian army 50O.-
400 strong will be ready for action
This army may be used against Bull
garia unless she has previously de-
feated Seryia and Greece.
Fighting was reported yesterday at
many points inside the old Seryian
frontier and on the batt!efelds OF the
war Of 1856, where the Servians went
down before the Bulgarians. Prot
and Timok Valley were then. as yes
terday. the scenes of sanguinary
struggles.
The strategic aim of the Bulgarian
movements appears 10 be TO cut of the
servian army operating in Northern
Macedonia from Belgrade and Salonica.
Seven bridges on the Servian Railway
north Of Vranje are said to be de-
stroyed, isolating the Servians on the
north, while the Bulgarians' recapture
Of Bjevgels. forty-fve miles northwest
Of salonica. isolates them from the
Greeks on the south.
terrible picture Of the extent and
effect Of the war fever in the Balkans
is given by Francis Mccullough, The
Daily News" correspondent, in Bel
grade. McCulaugh states that the
mutual hostility Of the allies is in
tense and that the hatred which they
now have for each other is far worse
than that which they had for the Turk.
The natural consequence, he says,
is that manners have greatly degen-
Grated and the peoples have become
brutalized. Even the higher officials
are boorish and unshaven. Their
treatment Of foreign diplomatists AMI
newspaper correspondents has never
been equalled since the days Of that
drunken grand seigneur who used 20
hit ambassadors between the eyes.
In the light Of to-day's revelations
the great common crusade against the
Turk, which so moved the heart Of
Christendom nine months ago. sinks
to the level of robber confederacy for
the purposes Of loot. The territorial
greed which now displays itself naked
and unashamed is not only disconcert-
ing; il is hideous and awful"
terrible story Of atrocities per-
petrated by Bulgarian brigands is re-
ported from Salonica by d French
priest. Father Michel. He states that
al Kurkut a Bulgarian band imprisoned
all the men of a district in a mosque
and caused the women to be placed
around the mosque in order that they
might witness the spectacle. They
then threw three bombs at the mosque,
and as it did not blow up they set fire
10 IT, All Of the men, about 200. we're
burned alive. Those who tried 10 es-
cape were killed by rifle shots. Father
Michel says he found in the streets
charred human heads, arms and legs.
At Planitza even worse atrocities
we're committed. First. all the men were
conducted TO the mosque and burned
alive, then the women who had Wit
messed the death Of the men were gath
cred together and in their turn burned
in public place