Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-20
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UnSpeakabIe Deeds of Ottoman
Troops Told by Return
ina Greek
ALLIES FIRED BY
FIENDISH CRUELTIES
Brutalit;es UnbeIievabIe-The
Common Weapon of
MuSSulman

\ Bringing with him the first real
\ personal stories Of an eye wit (
y ness Of the. Balkan war against (
Z the Ottoman, George Lyeurgus, (
y pEopr.etor of the Union Grill, 4
\ reached home this morning on the 4
= Ventura, after nearly two years
y spent In tlis native Athens. (
4 Did they not bear out in gen. 4
y eraI the stories sent by the war 4
= correspondents Of the big New
y York and London papers, some Of 4
= the statements made by Lyeur-
= gus would be almost unbelievable. I
= He tells OF women, raVished and 4
= spitted on red hot irons; Of child 4
4 rem as yet unborn being torn 4
= from the bodies of their murder
= ed mothers, and In nockery plae- I
4 ed in the dead arms of parents, I
4 who were propped up on the 4
= ground facing the charred erIbers
= OF little cottkges that had been 4
4 their hon1es, Of women and child 4
\ ren driven in the dead of winter 4
y to flee into the mountains, slowly 4
y Starving TO death; Of prisoners 4
= whose tongues were cut out, and 4
\ with fingers chopped off so that <
= they could neither speak nor I
= write OF the things they had seen
y in the Turkish lines.
+ + ~ y \ e u y 4 y y y y <
Also the returned traveller spoke o
,.ly hnf ;r hnfno hU h
Red Cross, to which he attached him
self as soon as the war broke out las
September, and with which he serve:
until he left the Near East for Homo
lulu.
Women spitted on Red Hot Irons.
81 was in Athens when the wa
broke out and / at once put mysel
in the way of doing something for MI
people. The only way l could hell
was with the Red Cross, so l joined
that and went to Salonika, which, il
YOU remember, was taken by tht
Greeks without a struggle. But jus
the same the Turks made Christianity
pay heavily for the victory.
I'VE found women there-twentS oi
them-who had been assaulted by the
Turkish soldiers the night before ant
then, in the morning, had been spittet
on red hot irons. When we fount
them some of them were still alive
Others had died in the agony of the
torture.
"You find it hard to believe that
such things happen anywhere in the
world in this the twentieth century
I tell you that it is impossible to Credi'
half of the things the Turks have done
during the six hundred years they have
been masters of part of southeastern
Europe We were forced into the pres
cnt war by just such things as this
am telling you. The difference is thai
for the first time in history the Balkan
allies have been strong enough t
bring the Turk to his knees.
Find Murdered Mothers.
The Red Cross detachment tC
which belonged was in SalOnika
about a week, and then moved on &c
Verria On the march We came across
SO many horrible things that II
would be impossible to tell you all OF
them. In one place. BanisCa, think
we found where the Turks had taken
q number of women about to become
mothers, ravished them, murdered
them with knives and ripped from
their still warm bodies the little un-
born babies These, in mockery, they
placed in the arms of their dead par
Cnts, propped the latter up so sight
less eyes faced the cottages where
,ho,, bo5 li,od oDd firod tho houses
and when we reached the spot the
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