Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

ciaIly Samothrake. Chios. Mytilene. Sa-
mos. They want to have the greater part
Of Macedonia. They want to keep. above
| ALL Saloniki And they are prepared to
fight for 1t. The cradle of Alexander the
Great they look upon as by right theirs
With the island empire and Macedonia
they expect Greece to jump from two and
half to five million population and to
become the leading Balkan nation DR.
Cleanthes> Nikoiaides. a leading Greek
writer of Athens. proves 1t to anybody
satisfaction that Macedonia. the great
apple of discord in this bloody strife. is
overwhelmingly Greek in race, faith and
tongue And they want it.
There is much bitter feeling among the
Greeks against Bulgaria. They do not
, part of the war. But they charge them
with duplicity. with a virtual rupture OF
the Balkan federation. The Greeks claim
that but for the small but efficient Greek
navy. the Bulgarians could never have
scored the bloody victory of Luleh Bur-
/ gas And the Bulgarians requite this.
they say. by acting selfishly for their
own interests only. without considering
those of their allies.
Bulgarian Cruelty Verified.
There seems to be good grounds for
charging the Bulgarians with excessive
cruelty in this campaign. / heard reports
of this everywhere. and not only in
Greece. An Austrian woman. a resident
of Cavalla. has fed the country after see
ing fearful sights. In Cavalla itself Bull
garian band leaders massacred 10 Turks
civilians and perfectly harmless per-
sons.
In Sores, a neighboring town. the Bull
garian officer in command pulled out his
watch and said: Till tomorrow at you
can do with the Turks what you II &c.
Thereupon they slaughtered 200 of them
men, women and children. In Xanthie.
where the Turks had Ned into the
mosques. they butchered them there at
their prayer. hacking many literally to
pieces In Drama the Bulgarians first de-
captated a wealthy Turk and forced be-
tween the bearded lips a lit tchibouk.
The Jews Jared scarcely better In
Sherisaba many of them were tortured
mainder ransomed for 1900 pounds
Turkish. UnspeakabIe outrages were COM
mitted upon Turkish women. An Ar
menian surnamed Kassapian tthe Butch
er. was the worst Of these fiends.
Greeks Guilty of outrages.
A Danish physician of the Red Cross
DR.. c. Holdt Of Copenhagen, is just bac'
from the front. AS a neutral and unbi-
ased eyewitness Of the Greek campaign
up to this hour. his statements to me
probably are Of some interest For con-
spicuous services the King of Greece
presented him with sword OF honor.
He was present at the engagements of
Elassona, Janitza. Servia, F1orina, Va
rita, Sarostoyo and the siege and capture
of Saloniki. When Saloniki surrendered to
sorts OF outrages. Among other things
they knocked the Moslem headgear, the
fez, of the heads Of every Tur-, Jew or
Servian they saw. both on the streets
and within the houses. a deadly insult
and sacrilege in the eyes of every follow
er of the prophet. For several days this
carnival Of brutality reigned un0isturbed. |
OF unusual interest are DR.. Holdt's
statements as to the volunteer corps
fighting under the Greek flag. This body,
about 1900 strong at present, is usually
styled the Garibaldians. because its chief
commander and organizer Is Menotti
Garibaldi, eldest son OF the great liberia
tor and himself man nearing three
score and ten. In this corps there are
serving persons of distinction, interna-
tional adventures. etc. Prince Ypsilanti, |
now recovering In his chateau near |
Vienna, is of the number; SO is Count |
Milan. and quite a sprinkling of univer- |
sity students from Rome and elsewhere. |
Many Nationalities Represented.
There are also Americans, Germans, |
Irish. French, Poles. English. Austrians-I
In fact, men Of every nationality within |
their ranks. They are supposed to shift |
and provide for themselves. without |
financial assistance of any kind on the |
part Of Greece. Naturally, there is a |
good deal of freebo0ting and plundering |
Their equipment. including their rifles. |
shows refreshing variety, from Mauser |
and ,Mannlicher to a. Springfield. A |
rather queer crowd, but they do fight. !
and fight well. Excepting the Greeks |
among them. nearly every one is at least
generals among them. Plain privates are
at discount. Their uniform consists |!
of a scarlet tunic and scarlet cap. For |
ten days before Janina this corps sub |
sisted on chestnuts and infected water. !
Two hundred and fifty of them died from
dysentery. The Greeks among them only |
asked for bread and olives. On that diet |
the average Helene fares sumptuously, |
with now and then bit of cheese. Meat |
they did not see at all during all that |
time. ,
Albanians Most Feared Foes.
But the Volunteer Corps. the Garibal-
DIM, certainly know how to fight They
furnished convincing proof of this at
Janitza. when loo of them, in the
face of a whitening tornado of bullets,
stormed and captured a battery of six
teen machine guns. using only the bayo-
net in the charge. an almost impossible
feat nowadays.
The queerest and most formidable foe
this corps had to contend with during
this campaign We're the Malissores and
Miridites- Mohammedan Albanians, who
had joined the Turkish forces before
Janina. These men were recklessly dar-
ing They made up a body of sharp