The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
Stores and Houses PiIIaged and
Then Burned.
FOREIGN COHSULATES LOOTED
Jeweled Fingers of Women in
Soldiers Pockets.
Horrors of Sacking of Seres
Confirmed With Details.


burning of Seres by the defeated Bull
garian army and the accompanying
outrages on women and atrocities on
men, were fully confirmed today in
dispatch from a we'll known Greek cor
respondent. The retreating Bulgarian
soldiers. he telegraphs opened a can
nonade with four field guns from a
hill above the town on Friday. At
the same time bands of Bulgarian SOL
diers, led by their officers, secured the
streets, pillaging stores and houses and
then drenching them with petroleum
and setting them alight until the great
er part of the town was blazing. The
SereS soldiers were accompanied by the
notorious Colonel Yankoff, who with
other former officers of the Bulgarian
army, was very active in Macedonia in
1903.
Even the foreign consulates in Seres
We're not spared, according to the cor
respondent. The Austro- Hungarian
consular offices were plundered and
burned, Vice Consul George C. Zlako
being carried off by the marauders, bus
subsequently ransomed The Italian
consulate also was sacked, but the
consul bought off the incendiaries. The
Bank of Athens, the Oriental bank,
the palace of the metropolitan. the
great synagogue, all the schools, the
tobacco warehouses of the American,
German and Austrian companies and
the hospitals were burned after they
! had been pillaged.
The American Tobacco company
alone suffered to the extent of S1,O00,-
600. Many people were crucified, hack
ed to pieces burned alive by the
maddened Bulgarians who committed
incredible outrages on women of all
ages, many of whom died from the ef-
fects. The condition of those who es-
non fe, To- IL
are dying of hunger while wretched
mothers are trying to find covering and
food for their naked and starving chill
dren. The situation is desperate, as
all the pharmacies We're burned down
and there is total lack of medicines
for the sick and bandages for the in
jured. The Greek authorities in SaIoni-
XII are rushing foodstuffs, clothing and
medicines to the stricken town.
London, July 14.-The Balkan states
appear again to be in the melting pot
Greece and Servia have declined so
far to agree to an arnistice The
turkish army is advancing by forced
marches from Tchatalja and Bulair.
apparently with the consent of Greece
and Servfa. to attempt the recapture
of Adrianople and Thrace Rumania
is said to be proceeding to occupy a
much larger extent of Bulgarian ter
r1tory than she previously claimed and
Greece is burning to avenge the Bull
garlan massacres. concerning which
horr1fylng details continually appear
in official reports issued from Athens
and Salonil1i. According to these re-
ports, ears and fingers of Greek women
still bearing ear rings and rings, were
found in the pockets of Bulgarian pris-
oners.
There is still talk of Russian in
reference and it is reported from st.
PETERSBURG that the powers in concert
have notified the Sublime Porte that
they will not permit military OPERA
tions beyond the Enos-M -Midia line fixed
by the London conference. But the
European concert is slow in moving.
No fresh fighting is reported and it
appears that rumors regarding revo-
luton in Sofia are without founda ton |
The Bulgarian government accuses
Greece of circulating false accounts of
Bulgarian atrocities with a view to
preparing the ground for future ter
ritorial claims. and expresses itself as
willing to submit the whole matter to
an international investigation.
No Confirmation in New York.
New York, July 14.-Officers of the
American Tobacco company today
said they had received no private ad- |
vices concerning the destruction of
their warehouse at Seres. They were
inclined to doubt that the loss was a |
m1lllOn dollars as stated in cable dis
patches.
Bulgarian Minister Leaves
Bucharest, July 14.-The Bulgarian
minister to Roumania and the staff of
the legation left today on special
train for Sofia. The report that de-
tachments of Roumanian cavalry have
occupied Dohritch, Baltchik and the
surrounding villages is officially con-
frmed.
Bulgarian King Makes Denial.
London, July liking Ferdinand of
Bulgaria in a long message dispatched
from Sofia July IL informs the Evening
News:
The stories and reports which the
Greeks and Servians have been cir
culating in Europe concerning So
troops upon the Greek and Servian
population in Macedonia are absolutely
unfounded and are published with the
object of creating a bad impression"
King Ferdinand proceeds to tell of
the liberties enjoyed by the people of
Adrianople with regard to their ma
tionality and closes with the allega-
ton:
Systematic attacks and prosecutions
have been directed against the Bull
garian element in Macedonia by the
Servians and Greeks. The districts of
Kastoria. F1orina and Vodena have
been cleared of all well educated men
and the prisons of SaloniAI are over
flowing with innocent Bulgarians The
purely Bulgarian of Kukush has been
completely burned by the Greek troops
THE Bulgarian government is ready
to come to international inquiry which
will enlighten the world concerning
the stories of these excesses."