The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-17
FLEEING BuLGARS
COMMIT OUTRAGES
WITHOUT PARALLEL

Salonilu, July 15.-The sacking and
burning OF the town or Sores by the
defeated Bulgarian army and the &C.
companying outrages on women and
atrocities on men, were fully confirmed
today In a dispatch from a well known
Greek correspondent.
The ~retreating Bulgarian soldiers. he
telegraphs, opened a c~annonade with
four field gums from q hill above the
town on Friday. At the same time
bands OF Bulgarian soldiers led by their
officers secured the streets, first pill
Laying h stores and houses and then
drenchtng them with petroleum and
setting them alight until h greater
part OF the town was blazing, The
soldiers were accompanied by h no
toriols revolutionary colonel, Yankoff,
who with former officers of the Bull
garian army. was very active in Mace
donna in 1903.
Even the foreign consulates in Sores
were not spared. according to the cor
respondent. The Austro-Hungarian
consular offices were p~lundered and
burned, Vice Consul zelatko being car
ried or by the marauders, but subse-
quently ransomed. The italian consul
ate ives also sacked, but the consul
bought of the ~incendiaries.
Nothing Held Sacred.
TIL Bank OF Athens, the Oriental
bank, the Palace OF the Metropolitan.
the great synagogue, all h schools,
the tobacco warehouses OF the Ameri-
can, Austrian and German companies
and the hospitals were burned after
they had been pillaged. The American
Tobacco company alone suffered to the
extent OF 100000
Many people were crucihed. hacked
to pieces or burned alive by the mad
dened Bulgarians, who committed IN
credible outrages on women or all ages,
many OF whom died from h effects.
The condition Of those who escaped
was lamentable. Rich merchants are
dying of hunger, while wretched
mothers are trying TO find covering ana
food for their naked and starving emil
dren.
The situation is desperate as all the
pharmacies were burned and there IS
total lack OF medicines for the sick and
handages for the injured.
ExcEssEs CHARGED TO SERBS
AND GREEKS BY BuLGAR KING
London, July fixing Ferdinand, OF
Bulgaria, in a. long message dispatched
from Sofia on July ~, informs the
aThe stories and reports which the
Greeks and Servians have been cir
culatfng in Europe concerning so
called outrages committed by my troops
on the Greek and Servian populations
III IthCEAOAAA03 4
and published with the object of Gre
afing q bad impression"
King Ferdinand told OF the liberties
enjoyed by the people of sAdrianople
without regard to their nationality and
closes with the allegation:
"~Systematic attacks and prosecutions
have been directed against the Bull
garian element in Macedonia by the
Seryians and the Greeks. The districts
OF Kastoria, Florina q Vodena have
been clear of all military educated men
and the prisons of Saloiniki are over
flowing with innocent Bulgarians.
Great numbers Of Bulgariars have been
transported from their homes. in the
country to Greece and to the islands
OF the Aegean sea. Few .
THE same cruel regime has been ap-
piled TO the Bulgarians in the regions
occupied by the Servians. The purely
Bulgarian town of Kukush has been
completed burned by the Greek troops"
Thousands of refugees, King Ferdi-
nand concludes, on arriving in Sofia,
gave terrifying reports OF the horrible
deeds committed by the Seryians and
the Greeks The Bulgarian govern
ment is ready to come to an interna-
tional inquiry which will enlighten the
world concerning the stories of these
excesses."