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

4 Bringing with him the first real 4
y personal stories Of an eye wit. 4
y ness Of the Balkan war against
4 the Ottoman, George Lycureus, 4
y proprietor of the Union Grill,
y reached home this morning on the 4
y Ventura, after nsasIy two years 4
= spent in his native Athens.
= Did they not bear out in gen. I
= eraI the stories sent by the war 4
= correspondents Of the big New 4
= York and London papers, some Of 4
the statements made by Lycur- 4
= gus would be almost unbelievable. I
= He tells Of women, ravished and 4
4 spttted on red hot irons; Of child 4
rem as yet unborn being torn 4
y from The bodies Of their murder
= ed mothers, and In n1oekery pIae- 4
= ed In the dead arms OF parents, -
who were pnopped up on the 4
\ ground fae.Fo the eharred -eHfbers 4
y Of llttl1 cottages that had been
= their homes, Of women and child 4
= rem dflveTi In the dead Of winter I
= TO flee into the rnountains, slowly =
\ starving 70 death: Of prisoners 4
r whose tongues were cut out, and 4
\ with fingers chopped off so that
= they could neither speak nor. 4
y write Of the things they had seen I
y in the Turkish lines.
4 y y y y r y = y y ~ y y y 4
Also the returned Traveller spoke @
the work that is being done by thC
Red Cross, to which he attached him
self as soon as the war broke out las
September, and with which he servot
until he left the Near East for Homo
lulu - :.
Women Spitted on Red Hot Irons.
Il was in Athens when the wa
broke out and at once put mysel
in the way of doing something for nl
people. The only way could he'll
was with the Red Cross, so l joined
that and went to Salonika, which, il
you remember, was taken by th,
Greeks without a struggle. But jus
the same the Turks made Christianit
pay heavily for the victory.
We found women there-twenty O
them-who had been assaulted by thu
Turkish soldiers the night before an;
then. in the morning, had been spittcC
on red hot irons. When we founl
them some of them were still alive
Others had died in the agony of the
torture.
"You find it hard to believe tha
such things happen anywhere in tn,
world in this the twentieth century
| 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
ent war by just such things as this
am telling you. The difference is tha
for the first time in history the Balkan
allies have been strong enough (
bring the Turk to his knees.
Find Murdered Mothers.
The Red Cross detachment tC
which | belonged was in SalonikF
about a week, and then moved on tC
Nerria On the march We came across
so many horrible things that i
would be impossible to tell you all o.
them. In one place. Banisca, | think
we found where the Turks had taker
a 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 mOCkPry, they
placed in the arms of their dead par
Cnts, propped the latter up so sight
loss eyes faced the cottages where
they had lived and fired the houses
and when we reached the spot th'
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