New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-18
KING Of GREECE TELLS
Of BULGAR ATROCITIES
Says Only PreCipitate Flight of
inhabitants of Villages Prevent
ed Still Greater Slaughter.

King Constantine Of Greece, from his
headquarters at Hadji Beilik, near
Seres. sends to The Associated Press a
detailed account OF the atrocities Of the
Bulgarians in Macedonia. He declares
that only the precipitate flight of the
inhabitants Of the villages and towns
prevented a still greater slaughter.
The following is the Kings message,
through Colonel Dousmani, Chief Of
General staff Of his majesty:
Associated Press. New York
"Hadji Bciik, July lin reply 10
YOUR dispatch Of the 10th instant |
have the honor TO communicate to you
the following information on the Bull
garian atrocities committed at the out
sct of hostilities against the Greek and
Mussulman inhabitants Of Macedonia:
The first city TO be scourged was
Nisrita \ large number of its people
" no had remained al their homes after
the events occurring i'm the Pargheon
district were massacred by the retreat
ing enemy. who did not fail TO light
the path of their flight by the flames
of the city. to which they had applied
the torch.
The correspondents Of lie Temps
and The Daily Telegraph who visited
the locality the day after the massa-
crcs. merely confirmed in greater detail
the dispatches Of the commanders OF
our troops.
The precipitate flight Of the peas
ants In the surrounding villages is the
only reason why We have not a greater
number of victims to deplore. on our
left wing 700 Mussulmans of the en-
vironments of Kilkish, a nest Of Bull
gariau comitadjis irregular troopsl
shared the same fate. Two of our Off
Gers who ia a bayonet assault had been
left lying wounded on the field a few
steps from the enemy's trenches, were
found. when the attack was renewed,
to have had their eyes gouged out.
AT Doiran. before their flight. the
enemy dragged the Metropolitan and
thirty of the leading citizens from their
homes. They have never been seen
again.
The religious leader Of the Mussul-
mans. with tears in his eyes. told us Of
the spollations and pillage Of the Bull
garian officers and soldiers.
AT Strumlitza fortunately, the en-
cmy had time to kill only two of the
persons imprisoned. But all these
things are as nothing compared with
what happened at Dimirhissar. Seres
and Doxato, where everything was
sacked by fire and sword.
The city of Seres is nothing more
than mass Of smoking ruins. filled
with mutilated corpses of old men and
women and children.
The consuls general of Italy and
Austria at Salonica who visited Seres
for the purpose of establishing to what
extent their nationals had suffered, have
told US that the accounts published in
the newspapers gave but faint idea
of the terrible reality
"At Dimirhissar the eXhumation Of
the mutilated bodies of the Metropoli-
tan and the leading citizens have con-
vinced us that our enemy is not salts
fed to pillage, burn, despoil and mur-
der, but he rejoices in torturing his
victims.
"Doxato is no longer anything but
pool of blood OF its $500 inhabitants
only lJ0 remain. A great number OF
the little villages along tn, route taken
ny the fleeing army were the scenes
o. like atrocities"
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