Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-14
GREECE ASKS JUSTICE
OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
A Strong Appeal Comes for Greek
Nation Through Editor YIasto
of Atlantis"
ATROCITIES OF BULGARIA.
Greece Doss Not Ask for Aims But
Voices Protss, Against Wholesale
Atrocities. Murder and Rspine.

N@AANHA @AN AhFNAatAf
Read what the Rev. GustAve Mich.
ell, head Of the French Catholic NJ is
zion Of Kilkis, has 10 say. The des-
patch which We quote was sent By
him to the press Of Paris.
Most shocking crimes have been
perpetrared in this town and through.
out che surrounding country By the
B1lgarians. With my own eyes /
have seen the massacre OF helpless
human beings. In the village Of
Kourkouf band Of Bulgarians head
ed by the bandit Dontioff forced ali
the male population within the con
fine Of the mosque, which they then
burned to the ground. Compelling.
at the point Of the sword, the women
aud children TO witness the frightful
scene, seven hundred men were burn.
ed alive.
Those who tried to escape we're
shot as they ran. have visited
Kourkouf and have seen the cali
cined human remains. offered money
to some starving women and was &c
cused by a Bulgarian soldier Of coll
lecting human heads TO send az curl.
osities to France. At Plantza the
same band of marauders carried their
deyilishness TO still greater lengths
They drove the male inhabitants into
the mosque which they burned, com
pelilng, as before. the women TO wit
ness the atrocious proceedings, imme-
diately after which the women were
stacked together and burned alive in
the square before the ruins Of ths
mosque.
"ln Rainovo men and WON IN were
slain and the bodies thrown into the
wells. At Kilkis the Bulgarian inhab-
itants destroyed the mosque and mas
sacred their fellow towanmen OF the
Moslem faith. On several occasions
| have held converge with Bulgarian
fComnitadjis With unbelievable
eallousness they boosted OF the afro
tiles they had committed Among
the irregulars was surprised to find
merchants Of Sofia, students At the
Bulgarian universities, even profess
sional men. One man, a student Of
literature, assured me that with his
own hands he had killed no ass than
one hundred and forty Greeks.
81 was called to the bedside Of
dying man. He had been beaten to
death for resisting a "Comnitadii,
who had seized upon his daughter.
applied to the French Consul a. Sa-
lonics, begging him TO exert his power
to nut an end 70 the mnsFacrep. which
are the disgrace Of Europe. lie re-
piled that ne coud do nothing, be cause
the Bulgarian government had au-
thorized and organized these bands Of
irregulars that they might cooperate
with the regular army, and that con
seqdentl their acts received Bulgar-
ia sar elton.
These doeumetary proofs Of Bull
garian ferocity are bat few Of the
great mass Of dispositions, letters
anC COVE rnmentRl reportss, that lie
ready to the hand Of the investiga-
tor. An army Of witnesses attest
the truth of every dreadful allega-
ton. These witnesses are Of all ma
tions, all faiths, all walks Of life.
They are not interested. as Bulgaria
is Interested, ia endeavoring 20
justify her unjustifiabie acts; they
are interested, as all should be, in
the protection of non-combatants
and the observance of the rules Oh
civilized warfare.
tConcluded.)