The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-24
GROSS ATROCITIES
BY BALKAN TROOPS
Evidence Gathered by Interna-
t'onal Commission in Search
ing Inquiry.
GUILTY OF HIDEoUs ACTS
Every Facility for Investigation
Given i'll Bulgaria and Turkey
and Opposed in Scrvia.

lSpeciai Caole TO The Times-D dispatch
Paris, October 23.-Troops OF all the
warning Balkan States committed gross
atrocities. according to tho evidence
| gathered by the international Carnegie
Commission in its searching inquiry
| just ended
The conclusions OF the commission
are to be published in book form with
Der OF the documents on which the re-
port Is based. The text will be is
used as whole, for which the mem
bers of the commission take respon-
sibility
| One OF the noteworthy tasks was
the minute examination and vertical
ton OF the famous packet of letters
from Greek soldiers captured by the
Bulgarians containing horrible descrip-
tons of how Greek soldiers avenged
J themselves" on Bulgarians who fell
| into their hands.
| The commission believes that IL has
established the authenticity OF these
letters. Other documents testify that
the Greeks occasionally made use of
the forbidden dumdum bullet, and also
show the misdeeds of Bulgarians and
other belligerents. The inquiry did
All Available Information.
The commission collected material
from every available source. After
having seen the officials, the commits
sion went TO the scenes of alleged
atrocities and interrogated at length
every class of witnesses from soldiers
who took part in the battles to women
and children, who were spectators and
victims OF the horrors. Some of the
most important evidence taken by the
commissioners came from children.
While it was found that the Bull
garians had committed the greatest
faults, the soldiery of other nations,
also were guilty of many hideous acts.
| The commissioners appear to be of the
| opinion thar had other billgerents
been aroused to such a pitch of fury
as were the Bulgarians. they would
| not have acted much better.
| III Bulgaria. the fullest inquiry was
| Invited and every possible facility for
| investigation WAS given to the com
mission. The Bulgarans In their cam
| paign against the Turks behaved In
| an exemplary manner 1t would ap-
pedr that the Bulgarians who had
borne the brunt OF the war against the
| Turks were exhausted at it's end and
thought only OF imme dintely going to
their homes. They had been promised
! this. When they were told that their
allies had acted in bad faith and had
betrayed them. the Bulgarian fury
burst forth uncontrollably.
Turkey also gave the commission
every facility for inquiry. The Greeks
did likewise. though Il certain amount
of opposition was encountered In that
country.
No Inquiries Permitted.
Servia did it's utmost to prevent an
unhampered investigation and no in
quries were permitted except in the
presence of Servian military attache.
This attituds reduced the commissions
work in Servia practically to nothing
and produces n bad impression on the
commission
Baron D'E,stournelles de Constant.
OF the commission. says that the re-
port will not dwell at great length on
the distressing story of misdeeds In the
Balkans which alters all do not prove
so much against the bclligerants as
against war itself"
The report will fully develop the
economic aspects of the war and also
have a good deal to say about the
wonderful possibilities of developme nt
which lie before the Balkan people.
The members Of the commission were
Baron D Estournellcs de Constant and
Justin GODDARD, q member OF the Cham
Der OF Deputies for France; Professor
| Wilhelm Paszkowsli, of the Unver-
sity of Berlin, for Germany; Profess
sor Samuel Train Dutton, of Column
bia University, for America; II, ~.
Brailsford, for Great Britain; Her Red
| Itch. imperial counsellor. for Austria.
and NJ Miloukoff, the Liberal leader
OF the Duma. for Russia.