Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1913-04-10
TELLS OF ATROCITIES
Writer Reveals FIendiSh Acts
Committed by Turks.
5uIaar Soldiers, MaddsRed by Treat
ment OF Their countrymen, SHOW
Mosiem Troope--Womsn Are
Horribly INITIATED

kabakteha Village, near Tchatal1a.
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 Tchatalja. Though
from all appearances the old regime
OF murder, mutilation and injustice
VIII soon be forever ended, the fear
struck Turkish population 10 moving
southward again toward Asia Minor,
whence It came. while the BulgAr
peasants Of the TehataljR district are
fleeing as nervously north. Amid
these scenes OF exodus, one 10 led 70
think II may yet not DO too late to
bring some order In the Balkan racial
chaos
Meanwhile. the Turks have wAesd
the present conflict in their old style
burning. violating. massacr1ng Al
most at the Bulgarian frontier the
atrocious tale begins.
Well. the moment the war was de.
ciared the Turks began TO loot and
burn the Bulgar villages But a.
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 OF on frantic migration to Con.
stanttnople, where they arrived In the
piuable state already known to the
world OF such Turks as stayed be
hind the Bulgars felt forced 70 XIII
some. Others they put to work with
the army transports. stu others they
left IN peace, their villages intact
just as one finds also BuigAr Villages
intact where the Turks did not have
time 10 do thorough Job,
We expected" said a BuIGar officer
with whom ! talked at TchatAlja. tic
end rich and plenteous country as
We neared Constantluoplo We found
instsad-what you see. nothingl Hard
" a living beingl Utter devasta
tiou!"
met an old Bulgarian woman ncar
Tchoriu who WAS tho frat Red Gross
nurse upon the ground after the ter
rtole destruction at LuIe BurEaA she
said that on her way to the field hos
-e.-sai sse "a 4 gent to the suScor q !
scattsred fpln Unloo' an, : -. =.
ears now, 40 sasStho truth. sh,
found young giris~fy ing naked by tbs
roadside nearly dead. She found chill
dren stricken down by careless sA
bers A housewife had been muir
dered as she kneaded her bread, the
dough stlll on her hands. And In q
bioody Jack the Turks had gathered
women's Breasts
II Is not difiicult TO verify such
stories They are common knowl
edge here. The Bulgar peasant has
no imagination. lie tells what he
sees ! viii give one more example
According To the Mohammedan re.
ligIon. pork 10 uncIean and Ia forbid
den For Turk to kin pig is thus
considered a special insult TO a Chris
tian. The advancing BulgRrs found
many pigs shot down or stabbed In
farm yards
The hulgars began the war In 9
humane spirit. as such terms go ia
war time But not a soldier in that
army OF 100000 IL ignorant now OF
certain fondish evidence HIS comrades
have Witnessed. In tho fighting al
Tchatalja. tbs Bulgars, having ad
yanced during tho day, we're fire..
quontly obliged to retire at night, leav.
ing their wounded on the field.
When the next days fortunes
brought them again over tho same
ground they found only stripped bod
les gruesomeiy hacked. while the or
ficers corpses had been mutilated in
way so much more disgusting than
anything have hitherto mentioned
that cannot even write OF IT, think
even kindly people In their tranquil
homes across the world I'm America
will understand the reason now. when
add that should the war continue,
no more Turkish wounded will be sent
north to be nursed In 9ulgar hospit.
als While the Bulgars pass hereaft.
err there will be no Turkish wounded.
Doubtless there are many good
Turks No one who has seen the pale
and delicate faces OF the Moslem WON.
an refugees can look on them without
pity. But the basic fact remains
The ways OF the Turk are not the
ways of Europe