Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-30
GREECE ASKS JUSTICE
OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
A Strong Appeal Comes for Greek
Nation through | ditor Waste
Of "Atlantis"
ATROCITIES OF BULGARIA.
Greece Does Not Ask 10, Aims But
Voices Protest Against whole
sale Atrocities, Murder and
Rspine.


co-nstionalists, denouncing them as
assassius and bandits who spared
neither non-combatants nor their own
countrymen. The wholesale and in
human slaughter of the Mohammedan
population By the Bulgarians during
the Greco-Turkish war was officially
confirmed by the British Foreign
Minister. SIR Edward Grey's ac-
cusations were based on the British
consular reports frum Macedonia and
Thvace. The Minister declined, how
ever, to make public the details of
the matter, coutending that consular
reports were confidential and, more
over that he had refused to publish
reports from the same consuls con-
corning the massacres committed by
the turks. Nowhere is there even a
question OF Greek atrocities.
{" Forgive Us, oh, ghosts of the
Huns, if, in an endeavor to describe
the Bulgarian atrocities, we have
wronged you by comparing their
deeds TO the traditions of horror you
have left to posterity, wrote Signor
Luciano Magrini, war correspondent
of the Mesa ggero of Rome, and the
Secolo, of Milan, after his visit to
Macedonia and Thrace during the sec
ord Balkan war, when he beheld the
remains of the town and villages
burned by the Bulgarians and the
corpses of Greek and turkish peas
ants slain or burned alive by the
soldiers of Ferdinand. Captain Car
dale, Of the British Royal Navy, se-
companied one of the French officials
on is heartrending mission of invssti-
cation and reported to his govern
ment scenes of unparalleled horror.
The Bulgarian Bishop of Drama is-
sued forceful protest against the
deeds of the soldiers of his own coun-
try, while the newspapers Of Sofia
are full of admissions and even boasts
that are hair-raising.
Whosoever undertakes to defend
the barbarians of Bulgaria will find
himself face t. face with such mass
of hideous facts that he must find his
position either ridiculous or unten-
able. The fiendish fury of the Bull
gar is peculiar to his race-the Tar
tar. He has no place among European
nations. He is of the same stock as
the Huns and vandals that overran
Europe. For more than a thousand
years, since he invaded and held the
territory he new occupies he has
shown himself, once the surface Of
superimposed civilization is scratbc-
ed, to be the ferocious, bloodmad de-
scendant of the ancestors whose boast
and glory was war, torture, pillagt
and rape, to whom the ideal of truth
was laughing stock and the oath of
honor but means of duping an en-
envy.
"The same conditions pertain in
Central Asia today. Go find the
Picking Gazette and read the records
of the Tai Ping rebellion in China
so awful that even the Kurdish Off.
cials and the Kahns of India protest
ed. The little brother to the Tartar
does not affiliate with the rule Of
mercy and self-control.
'No European could have commit
ted or permitted such deeds ss Bull
garia has set to her discredit. At
her door al me lies the incredible but
only too we'll verified slaughter of a
hundred and fifty thousand non-com-
bantant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
chiIdren-drowned burned, shot or
bayoneted in this CORY advance against
the Turks at Loule-Bourgas. He
turned his murderous frenzy against
the non combatants of Greece when
the armies of that nation were div
ing him from Macedonia. All this is
no secret. By letters, photographs,
official examinations, national inves-
LEGATIONS, it is all verified.
Like the Tartar that he is, the
Bulgarian Stays, when victorious,
from sheer lust of slaughter and ma
tional enthusiasm. and when defeated
he raped, tortured and slew in sheer
hysteria of revenge. The Greeks are
the outposts of European civiliza-
| ton. of which Greece herself was the
mother. Never in all her annals has
| she shown one evidence Of Tartar
brutality. On the contrary, ma
tional spirit of force and idealism, a
respect for the laws that were even
the expression of the aspirations OF
the whole people have from time i'm
memorial been hers. Her armies
fon Eht against an army barbaric in
its methods she fought beside an
| army even more inhuman-yet she
| conducted her campaign according &c
the rules of warfare laid down by the
nations of Europe. Is her honor now
to be smirched. Is she to stand by
and permit ner racial sodl to be de-
filed by calumnyf
SHANE on those who would com
NIT such injustice. Could the mem.
bers of any nation. save the crue
Tartar, have taken as his mementoI
and spoils of war portions of bis vic
tins, dried in the smoke Of theii
burning honest Yet this was thu
common habit of the Bulgarian
trooper. On the persons Of the pris
oners taken by the Greeks during tn
last war we're found innumerably
such CHASTITY trophies-that only to-
graphically recorded the slaughter o.
men, women and babies, and not mi.
Slaughtered, but hideously dismem
bered. A Bulgarian priest who wa
brought to Athens, was found wear
! ing q necklace of such unspeaksbl'
1 souvenirs. This inhuman soldier,
| seemed wholly unconscious OF th'