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CRY FRAUD IN PERU'S ELECTION
B~navides's Opponents Say lie Was
Chosen In Absence ~ Quorum.


LIMA, Peru, May 17.--Prior to the cleo
of Colonel Benavides. as provisional pres
ident few days ago. the Ministers of
Justice and Finance resigned. They de-
clared that crimes had been pcrpetrated
by the gendarmes and police and that the
license allowed to irresponsible mobs had
compelled them TO resign lest they should
appear TO be implicated in these matters.
The supporters Of Roberto Ieguia, who
was vice president under Dillingham;. and
who. according TO the constitution. should
have become president Mt the time OF the
army's coup d'etat. claim that Benavides
was elected in the absence OF legal
quorum They declare that the police
prevented the followers of Senior Legua
from entering the chamber where the cleo
ton was held.
Finally thirty-nine OF them succeeded in
entering but on discovering that an in
trigue was going on tried to leave. Their
exit was barred but Some escaped by
jumping out OF the windows. Those who
were forced to remain during the election
protested against what had been done.
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REPORT OF CARNEGIE COMMISSION ON
BALKAN WARS DEN0UNCES THE GREEKS
In Matter Of Atrocities King
Constantine Army Was
Worst Offender.
NON-COMBATANTS BLAMED

Some Of the writer's loast OF the cruelties
practlsed by the Greek army. Others de-
plore them. The statements of fact arc
simple. brutal. and direct and always TO
tho same effect. These soldiers all state
that they everywhere burned the Bull
garian villages. Two boast OF the mas
sacre of prisoners OF war one remarks
that all the girls they met with were vio-
lated. Most of the -ctters dwell on the
slaughter of on-combatants, including
women and children. These few extracts.
each from p separate letter. may suffice
to convey their general tenor:
by order OF the King we are set
ting fire to all the Bulgarian villages,
because the Bulgarians burned the
beautiful town OF Series, Nlgrlta and
several Greek villages. We have
shown ourselves far more cruel than
the Bulgnrlans. We have violated all
the young girls whom we met. "''
Here we are burning the villages
and killing the Bulgarians, both
women and children.
I'VE took only n few Tprisonersl
and these we killed. for such arc the
orders we have received
I'VE have to burn the villages
such IL the order-slaughter tho
young people and spare only the old
people and the children.
what Is done to the Bulgarians
Is indescribable, also to the Buigar-
ian peasants. II was butchery.
There is not n Bulgarian town or
village but Is burned.
| we massacre all tho Bulgarians
who fail into our hands and burn
the villages
''Of the 1900 prisoners we took at
Nigrita, only forty-one remain in the
/ prisons and everywhere We have been
we have not left n single root of this
| race.
| I'VE picked out their eyes fave
Bulgarian prisonersl while they were
| still alive.
"'rhc Greek army sets fire to all tho
| villages where there are Bulgarians
and massacres all II meets
God knows where this will end.
"These letters relieve us OF the tas
OF summing up the evidence From Ku
kush TO the Bulgarian frontier the Gree
army devastated the villages. violated tn
women and slaughtered the non-comba
tant men. The order TO carry out RI
prisals was evidently obcyed. We repea
however. that these reprisals began bt
fore the Bulgarian provocatlons."
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8 GERMAN AvIATORS KILLED.
MoropIane Fails 1000 Feet-Motor
Of Another Machine Bursts.

Special cobis Despatch TO TUE su..
BERIiN, May i7.--Threo German army
aviators wero killed and another was
seriously injured In three aeropiane ac-
cldents to-day.
Lieuts. wiegandt and Feliinger were
instantly killed while attempting to land
at the aerodrome at Halberstadt. The
monoplane capsized whilo making too
short turn and fell 1000 feet.
Tho motor OF the acroplano piloted by
Lieut. Mueller burst while he was over
Pforzheim and tho aviator was killed
Lieut. Rohde was seriously injured wher
the machine In which he was flying fell
over Mayence.
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TO TEST ULIvrs INVENTION.
JiH''nn Government Mn. nay
Method ot " ircIess ESpiOsion.

NpecIqI ta5lr DftpqfcA % Tan Sun.
ROME, May 1.-THE Government has
G'Itpd Signor Ulivl, the dscoverer OF the
rays by when he says he is able to
explode torpedoeS. shells and dynamite at
considerable distances, To make extensive
experiments at the artillery ranges a, Net
'iro. The Governments purchase of the
Invention will depend upon the success OF
these experiments.
The Invitation 10 U!iv! IL apparently the
outcome OF the recest success of the In
Sentor in exploding a mine near Fiesoe,
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There is quite n contrast between what
has gone before and tho commissions
investigation of tho charges against the
Greeks.
In order to show to what depths OF
brutality race hatred had sunk the Greeks
the commission points to n gaudily col
ored poster seen In tho streets OF Salonica
/ and bought eagerly by the returning
Greek soldiers. II shows n Creek evzone
Chghiandcr) holding a living Bulgarian
soldier with both hands while no gnaws
the face OF his victim with his teeth like
| some beast OF prey. II In entitled the
Bulgarophasos (Bulgar eater). Another
| popular battle picture shows a Greek
| soldier gouging out the eyes of a living
| Bulgarian.
After the slaughter nj Demir-Hissar by
| tho Bulgarans King Constantine an
nounced that he found himself obliged
with profound regret 10 proceed 10 re-
prsals" A comparison of dates viii show
that tho Greek "reprisals' had begun
some days before the Bulgarian provo
| cation"
The commission declares that the
| Greek army inaugurated the second war
by the deliberate burning OF Bulgarian
town. Kukush. This precedent, together
with the arming of the Turks and even
providing some of them with uniforms In
order to use them as instruments against
the Bulgars, was only too faithfully fol-
lowed elsewhere. In the county of ku-
kush 10 less than forty Bulgarian vii
lagos were destroyed. out of the mass
OF evidence regarding tho district OF Ku-
kush tho following is selected as an ex-
ample:
"Mito Kolev Is an Intelligent boy OF
fourteen who comes from the Bulgarian
village Cavatants. IN tho Kukush dis
trict He fled with most Of hts neghbors
in the FIRST alarm after tho Bulgarian
defeat at Kukush. but returned next day
to fetch his mother. who had remained
behind. Outside the village Greek
trooper fred at him. but missed him. The
lad had the wit TO feign death. As h,
lay on the ground. his mother was sho
and killed by the same cavalryman. He
saw another lad killed and the sam,
trooper went In pursuit of n crippled
girl. or her fate Mite who clearly dis
tinguished between what he saw and wha
ne suspected. knew nothing, but another
witness CHANGED to, see the corpse of THU
girl. The material corroboration OF THU
story Is that Mito stu bears evidences
OF his wounds, n sabre cut which all blu
killed him. and a slight revolver wound
A shot wound may DO accidental, but
sabre wound can only be given deliber
ately and at close quarters troope
who wounds n boy with q sword canno
a plead error or this particular squad o
I Greek cavalry II Is not too much to sa.
that they were Strengthening bulgarian
q peasants at sight and that they spare'
neither women nor children"
y Greeks BOnst OF Atrocities.
! But the worst charge against tn
J. Greeks IL their own confession of atroci
!. ties contained in letters captured by tn
Bulgarians on the eve of the arrnstlce
The mail bags of tho Nineteenth Gree
Infantry regiment were taken at Dobri
n,chto and after being transported I
Sofia were translated. The commission
is satisfied they are genuine. or then
the commission says
1.-THE letters require no commentary
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AUSTRIAN EMPEROR WORSE.
Cold, Wet weather Greatly Affects
His Catsrrb.
Special C0ble Despatch to I'nr sen

VIENNA, May 17-Emperor Trancis
Joseph. who has been III for several weeks
Of catarrh, has been most adversely
affected by the present cold. wet weather
His. cough Is again troublesome and his
sleep is disturbed.
His physicians arc trying TO persuade
the Emperor to leave the palace at Schoen-
brunn and 60 to Miramar. but he refuses
to do 80. declaring that state affairs will
not allow Of the change
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The treatment OF prisoners. particu-
larly ut Salonica, by the Greek army Is
thoroughly condemned by the commission.
Although the other Balkan nations were
guilty OF the killing of prisoners. when,
as IL seems. they couldn't take them with
them and also were guilty OF reprisals
for tho slaughter OF their nationals all
this is as nothing compared to the tor
ture meted out to those who fell into the
hands OF the Greeks at Salonica. Many
non-combatants were imprisoned and
starved for months. others were thrown
into tho bay from prison ships and
drowned.
one charge against the Bulgarians at
Adrianople should be mentioned. Just be-
fore the occupation OF that fortress by
the Bulgars and the return OF the Turks
forty-fve Turkish residents OF Karagatch.
just outside the fortress, were arrested by
the Bulgars and bound together in groups
Of four with their belts. They were told
that they were being taken TO Bulgaria
tthe story comes from one OF the sur
vivors), but when the soldiers got near
the bridge across the Arda they shouted.
run quickly; the train is coming" The
prisoners crossed the bridge and reached
the opposite bank There they were placed
In line, their. faces 10 the river, and
pushed Into the water. While the poor
devils fioundered about the soldiers fired
at any heads that appeared above water
Tho man who told this story TO the COM
/ mission broke his belt and noated down
the stream as II dead. Finally when
darkness came he was able to make his
way to the bank and escape.
Tho Turkish army when they resumed
: the offensive in Thraco wcrs quite a.
guilty as any other of the other Balkan
armies. says the commission. Ia the mat
ter OF atrocities. \ systematic erYori
seemed to have been nado to wipe out
/ the entire Bulgarian population. Villages
were burned. women were outraged, OLD
| men and chindren were slain like so many
animals.
! The Servian Government refused I,
| recognize the commission or to aid IL II
| its Investigations Independent Inquiry
! however. showed that the Servsns, guilty
! principally of the most atrocious method,
OF coercion In the first war. used IN,
same methods rs the others In the wa
with the Rulgarians The Servian Govern
ment made every effort TO spread the re-
/ port of "atrocities' committed against IL
army. The commission has In It's pos
session letter from Servian soldie
to friend IN which he says:
IT have no time tn write you at length
but I can tell you of the appalling thing
that are going on here. I may say tina
Liouma, an Albanian region along tn
! river OF the same name. no longer exists
There is nothing but corpses dust an,
ashes. There are villages OF 100. $50, 20
houses where there Is no Longer n singl
man, literally not one. We collect then
in bodies Of forty to fifty and then W
| pierce them through with bayonets TO tn
last man. Pillage Il going on every
where"
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Changing Nationality by Force.

II was for this reason that the Bull
garians in Macedonia-and in some towns
they dominated other nationalitics--be-
nan 10 suffer at the hands OF the liberia
tors Those who said they were Bulga-
rians were compelled by force TO be-
come Greek or Servlan; they had to
change their nationality and religion NJ
tho force of the bayonet. Thus did the
true Christian spirit OF the allies fol-
lowing the war OF the Gross against the
Crescent" make itself apparent
Tho Servans, the Carnegie Commits
sion learned, were the greatest Offenders
IN the matter of coercion. The Greeks
forced Bulgarians to sign appeals for an
uexatluu to Greece. Tho Scrvians. on
the other hand. made these poor people
change their nationality and even their
names with threats of persecution which
often were carried out
The Serviau and bulgarian garrlsons
In Macedonia. the commission says, were
equally guilty in the massacres and tor
! The Bulgarians were also guilty of con-
/ verting by force. This charge, II will
! be remembered. was made most forcibly
against the Servians. The victims of
| Bulgarian coercion were the Pomacks
. Bulgarian by race hut Mohammedan by
/ religion.
IN the Greek Indictment OF tho Bull
/ gariaEs. which thc commission had 10
| investigate. three principal events were
! brought out The massacre At poxato
/ lying near the Egean coast between
! Drama and kavala the slaughter az
! Dcmlr- Hissar and the burning Of Series
The commission went over these charges
/ very carefully and said in relation "a
! charges made against the Bulgarians by
the Greeks: "Thesc three cases are far
from supporting the general statements
Of some Greek writer's that the Bull
gariaus In their withdrawal from south
ern Macedonia and western Thrace fol-
lowed a general policy OF devastation and
! massacre"
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DISEASE MENACES OIL PORT
n, FRED X. WILSON.
sp.-,o, Correspondence. to THE suS


-,,rt,n. May li.--Thc most unsanl-
,,-,. and chaotic place on the Mexican
r,a,, to-day rs Tampico, the port of entry
c,,,,t,r,d this week by Constitutionalists
,-aer den. Gonzales. The greatest fight
,bo rebcl cnicftain has to make Is that of
,-,,rlnr order from chaotic conditions
ard making this city 1T for human habi-
tatio0
SANITARY conditions to-day are such
,,at something must be done nj once or
, cholera or yellow fever epidemic may
vino tho population from the map. Gen.
co,z,les realizes that with yellow fever
/, the city the port would he closed more
Effectively than II all the warships Of the
uorld Law outside the entrance to the
Parugo River.
During the siege OF the city by the Con-
,,tu,ioralists the tederals were too busy
N give the matter OF sanitation any
Thought. Consequently Nth. refuse and
dccayug matter accumulated In the
streets the alleys along the wharfs ant
even about the pazas. Tho alleys are
literally clicked with refuse, beneath
which in many cases arc bodies OF soldiers
killed In battle.
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The commission concludes as follows

The commission concludes as follows:
TO what extent have Greeoe Servia
and Bulgaria shown themselves competent
to administer their new domains7 What
are the guarantees OF their future growth
In good government and the arts OF civil
lized lifep Each nation Ia working out
It's destiny under constitutional govern
ment in which the people are duly repre-
sented Undoubtedly tho most promising
safeguards and tho most important means
OF progress are found in the systems Of
education which the several nations have
established. Greece has been able 20 OK
tend and broaden her system and TO con-
meet Il somewhat with the economic In
terests OF tho people. Servia also has
made worthy attempts along this line
but as one friend OF the nation expressed
II. Education In Servia Is strong at the
top and weak ut the bottom Bulgaria In
her thirty-four years OF Independence has
made rapid progress in organizing an et-
ncient school system and the percentage
OF illiteracy has been greatly reduced.
"If the treaty Of Bucharest had been
in accord with fair play and Justice or II
the question cf boundaries could have
been referred to mediation there would
have been stronger hopes that the inter
relation OF the Balkan nations could be
improved and strengthened Under pres
ent conditions however, the case seems
well night hopeless. What then is the
duty OF the civilized world In tho Bal
kans especially OF those nations who by
their location and history are free from
international entanglements? II Is clear
In the first place that they should cease
to exploit these nations for gain
They should encourage them 10 make
arbitration treaties and insist on
their keeping them. They should
set good example by seeking a
judicial settlement of all international dis
putes Tho consequences of the recent
war. economic. moral and social. are
dreadful enough to Justify any honest
effort by any person or by any nation ia
alleviate the really distressing situation.
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tablish peace and order in the land
OF our birth. Come to meet these
brave knights Of freedom, therefore.
with triumphal crowns. Cover the
way before their feet with flowers
and glory and he magnanimous to
those who yesterday were your mas
ters AZ true Christians give them
not evil for evil. Long live libertyf
Long live the brave army OF liberia
ton!
The Illusion Of the inhabitants. says
the investigating commission. disappeared
before the touch OF reality. The Servian
soldier. Ike the Greek, was firmly per-
suadcd that In Macedonia he would find
compatriots. mon who could speak his
language and address him with jivo or
tito. He found instead men speaking a
language different from his who cried
"hourrah :" lie misunderstood or did not
understand at all. The theory he had
learned from youth of the existence OF q
Servian Macedonia and n Greek Mace
donia naturally suffered, hut his patri-
otic conviction that Macedonia must be
come Greek or Servian, If not 80 already,
remained unaffected.
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BALKAN WARRIORS RETURN.
Cuuarder Lucanin Arrives with SOS
Second Cabin Passengers.

Tho Cunarder Lucanla, in yesterday
from the Adriatc and tho Mediterranean.
brought s9s second cabin passengers. the
largest number that has ever arrived
from southern Europe Most Of them are
creeks who fought in the Balkan wars.
Miss Kate A. sawyer. aged SO, of AL
hany died Of bronchitis on Tuesday when
the liner was OF the Azores. Her body
was brought to port and will be sent to
her home
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CONGRESS WOMEN SEE QUEEN.
M.rxherita OF Italy Greets Delegates
70 Council.
specia, Cable Despatch TO Tas Sun

ROME, May 17.--Dowsger queen
Margherita to-day received the executive
committee OF the Women's international
Council. The committee was headed by
the Countess OF Aberdeen, the president
of the council.
The Dowager Queen showed great in
terest In what the women told her OF the
work Of the council. She said she always
followed with the greatest cagerness every
movement for the progress and develop
ment of women, as such work would IN
eyItably be OF benefit to humanity.
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TURKS PERSECUTE GREEKS.
women and ChiIdrcn Are Massacred
I'm Eastern Thrace.
spectal Gable Despatch 10 TuI Sun

SOFIA, May 17.--Accordlng TO oficial
dispatches received here. the Turkish
prosecutions of Greek peasants in eastern
Thrace continues. Refugees arriving at
Dedeagatch say that a number OF women
and children had been massacred.
While a boatlosd OF refugees was cross
ing the Martha River Turkish soldiers
fred q fusillade and many In the boat
became panic stricken and were thrown
into the water and drowned.
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More sonnets by Ke.ts Found.
Special caoIs Despatch 10 TIN sra

Spec'a tdbIs Despalch 10 THn SrN
LONDON, May 1s.-The Times prints to-
day two hitherto unpublished sonnets by
Keats, One 10 inscribed "on Receiving a
Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt" and tho
other ITO tho Ladies Who Saw Ne
Crowned
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All Laws Of Armed Combat
Broken by All Armies,
It Finds.
REVIEW OF THE CONFLICT

The report OF the international commits
sion sent into tho Balkan Peninsula In
1918 on behalf OF the Carnegie Peace
Foundation to investigate conditions in
Macedonia following the war aud charges
OF atrocities made by all sides In that
conflict II made public this morning. II
consists OF some zoo book pages with
maps and photographs. while IN tho APP
pendiccs Is given the testimony In extenso
OF tho witnesses examined by the COM
mission and from which the most i'm
portant excerpts bearing on the text have
been taken.
Tho average American knows little Of
the true conditions IN the Near East, and
the report of the commission will serve
as history OF the Balkan war. its causes
and results as authentic perhaps as any
that could be written.
The effect OF this document on world
peace, the argument which the commits
sion endeavors TO drive home I'm its sum
ming up. Is likely discounted by the COM
missions own admission that conditions
in the Balkans to-day are the same II not
worse than before the war and It's ex-
preston of fear that. due TO tho injustice
OF the treaty Of Bucharest. the stability
of the forced peace In the peninsula will
not long be maintained
one of the most important parts Of the
report is the scathng arraignment OF tho
Greeks for their conduct In the second
war. when. allied with the Servans, they
drove the Bulgars out of western Mace
donia. Atrocities, II was found, were
committed on all sides to greater oi
lesser extent, the Bulgarians in this mat.
ter having tho cleanest record. The &C.
cusatons against the Greeks on tn,
other hand. are presented go strongly a,
to discount denial. as the commission pre-.
sents unmstakable proofs with all II,
charges.
This part OF the commissions finding.
is particularly enllghtcning when It Is re
called that King Constantin, members o
his Cabinet and minor officials wer
quoted TO great length in the American
press as denying all charges or atrocitle
on the part OF the Greek army and bring
ing serious accusations against the Bul
CARS
II Is also interesting 10 note IN this con
nection that when Queen Eleonoro of Bul
garla announced her proposed visit TO IN
United States she received numerous let
tiers threatening her life II she made tn
trip. These letters were supposed to hav
I, originated in the Greek colony in Ne,
York, some of the members OF which wer
the strongest In their denial of Gree
, atrocities in the second Balkan war.
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Inburicd Bodies n Menace.

THO Federal dead during the nrSt uayS
OF the fighting were buried ia shallow
graves about the city. Hundreds OF these
graves. just deep enough to hide bodies,
were found on premises vacated by those
leaving the city. The bodies of the hun
drcds killed In the last day of the bat
= tlc, when the fighting was carried to the
heart OF the city, were left to be disposed
o. by the rcbcls. and are menace TO the
entire population.
Gen. Gonzales has announced that the
EraN.s Ia the city will be- enptied ut once
and tine bodies burned. Without the city
and near the fortiiications where other
Federal soldiers were hastily buried the
ZANE process will follow. one thing which
10 meuaciug the Constltutioualst victors
row Is tho water supply Of the city. The
yatcr used by the soldiers and the iuhabi-
;auts Is far from standard in purity. The
rebel chieftain Is rernedying this and
other conditions rs rapidly as possible,
hut resources are lacking and 1t is thought
foreigners will have TO come to the rea-
cue. one reason why Gen. Gonzales IL
anxious Tor foreigners 10 return 70 the
city is that they will assist in bringing
order, sanitation and money back to Tam
pico.
Financially there Is nothing to Tam.
pico. There is plenty OF money. yet Their,
IS no money. Every kind OF Mexican
money, from the ordinary two color shir
plaster of both the robels and Federals
10 the silver coin of the republic. is found
but II has deprecated so much that II
- almost worthless. Indeed the shin
plaster variety lie worse than worthless
u is not wanted BY any person. IN,
Mexican silver coin is little better, anC
rs for god II Is unknown unless in coin.
Of foreign country. The banks all sus-
pended business weeks ago, and while
there is some real money Ia the city 1t /.
boarded.