Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-14
UNSPEAKAbL'E
CRIMES ARE
CHARGED
GREEKS CIRCULATE STORIES OF The
BARBARITIES OF THE BULGARIAN
TROOPS, But KING FERDINAND
DENIES AND ASKS INVESTIGATION
PEACE DOES NOT
Seem TO MATERIALIzE


Saloniki. July 4.--The sacking and
burning of the town of Seres by the
defeated Bulgarian army and the ac-
companying outrages on women and
atrocities on men, were fully confirm
ed today in a dispatch from a well
known Greek correspondent.
! The retreating Bulgarian soldiers,
he telegraphed, opened IA cannonade
with four field guns from a hill above
the town on Friday At the same
secured the streets, pillaging and
burning until the greater part Of the
town was blazing.
Even the foreign consulates in
Seres were not spared. according to
the correspondent. The Austro-Hun-
garian consular offices were plunder-
ed. The bank of Athens, the Orien-
tai bank, the Palace of the Metropoli
tan the great synagogue, all the
schools, tobacco warehouses of the
American. Austrian and German com
panies We're burned after they had
all been pillaged. The American To
bacco company alone suffered to the
extent Of $1,000,000,
Many people We're crucified, hacked
to pieces or burned alive by the mad
dened Bulgarians, who committed in
ges, many Of whom died The con
dition of those who escaped is lament !
able Rich merchants are dying OF !
hunger, while wretched mothers are |
trying to find covering and food for !
their naked and starving children.
Did Not Hear of Losses.
Officers of the American Tobacco
said today that they had
received no private advices concern
ing the destruction of their warehouse |
at Seres, Macedonia. They were in
clined to doubt that the loss was mil |
lion dollars, as stated IN cable ad- !
vices. (
BuIgarians Deny Excesses.
of Bulgaria. in long message dis
patched from Sofia on July IL. informs I.
the Evening News:
"The stories and reports which the Il
Greeks and Servians have been circu-
Iating in Europe concerning cabled i
outrages committed by my troops on
the Greek and Servian populations in
are absolutely unfounded
and are published with the object of
creating a bad impression"
King Ferdinand told of the liberties
enjoyed by the people of Adrianople
without regard to their nationality and
closes with the allegation:
"Systematic attacks and persecu-
ions have been directed against the
Bulgarian element in Macedonia by
he Servians and the Greeks The
districts of Kastoria, Florina and Vo- |
lena have been cleared of all well ed s
lcated men and the prisons of Saloni- i
Ii are overflowing with innocent Bull |
,arians. Great numbers of Bulsa- S
ans have been transported from I
heir homes in the country to Greece 7
md to the islands of the Aegean !
ca. The same cruel regime has been +
pplieh to the Bulgarians in the re- +
lions occupied by the Serians. Pure
Y Bulgarian town of Kukush has
een completely burned by the Greek =,
roops." q
Thousands of refugees, King Ferdi- {
and concludes, on arriving in Sofia, :,
gave terrifying accounts of the hor- :,
ible deeds committed by the Ser.
ians and the Greeks. The Bulgarian
overnment is ready to come to an in.
ernational inquiry which will en- ,
ghten the world concerning the q
tories of these excesses.
Bucharest, Roumania, July 1.-THE
ulgarian minister to Roumania and I
;e staff of the legation left today on
special train for Sofia The report
lat detachments of Roumanian cav
ry have occupied Dobritch, Baltchik
nd the surrounding villages is Off
ally confirmed.
'Saloniki. July 1f-Tha Austro- g
and the Italian consuls sta et
oned in this city have gone to Seres V,
verify the stories concerning at CT
,cities committed by the Bulgarian al
oops, and to aid their citizens" W
'2ANrE NAV NIT o'