The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-02-18

not dcbase himself by continuing to
| represent q country whose acts were
a disgrace to humanity" MIR. Bou-
chief, however, found no difficulties
with his conscience, nor did he hesi-
tate to Justify that which a Bulgarian
diplomat had found inexcusable.
The crimes and atrocities commit
! ed by the Bulgarians in the Greco
Bulgarian War, were, however, SO
shocking and SO completely attestGd
that even the Times, that official or
gan Of British policy, did not dare to
| fly In the face Of public opinions and
was forced to Join it's voice in the gen
cral chorus of Indignation. Then it
was that the Times" presented a
strange contradiction to its readers.
| While Mr. Bouchicr's letters from S'ola
were picturing the Bulgarians as spot
less innCccnts, the editorials were de-
nouncing them and declaring their dc
feat was just punishment for their
crimes
When "thc letters" were produced
| by the Bulgarians, the Greek Ambassa-
dor in Paris gave the press an official
statement, declaring that the docu-
mcnts were forgcries and challenging
the Bulgarian Government to request
England and France to make public
the exhaustive reports Of their OIL
cial investigators, Mr.. Halgouet and
Captain Cardalc, concerning the Bull
garian atrocities. Bulgaria could ac-
ccpt no such challenge
DR.. Vamvakas, formerly Deputy
from Macedonia for the Turkish Parl-
lament, publicly pointed out the fact
| that all The letters. when subjectcd to
| careful analysis, proved to have been
written by the same hand. DR.. YAM
| vnkaS further suggested that the plot
to diScredit by means Of forged let
ters was borrowed by Abdul Hamid
who, when the outcry against his Ar
menian massacres became uncomfort-
ably clamorous, caused number Of
| forged letters to be published in fac
simle, pnrporting to have been writ
ten by Armenian plottcrs who boasted
OF their awful maSsacres Of the Kurds!
| We quote from the Paris Temps
I'VE must admit that the Bulgarians
have a peculiar talent for forging doc
uments with which to meet any situa-
ton that may arise. This time
through very excess Of zeal, they have
unmasked themselves. The Bulgarian
pamphlets defaming Greece contain re-
productions of fourteen letters, of
which only four show any destination
Only that part Of each letter which
deals with atrocities" is reproduced
We would be very much interested to
know what else the letters contained
The forgcr or forgcrS Of the letters
would be at once convicted were they
to try to manufacture personal details
which could csly be checked up and
vcrilicd-s0 they wisely refraincd
from doing SO. 1t is also to be noted
That no mention Of the date or place
Of the seizure OF the mail bag is Civ
en-. The Bulgarian government CON
tents itself with a vague statement
that the letters were found in the
District Razlog." Had such q seizure
really occurred he Bulgarians would
be the first to give a detailed account
Of the time, place and manner Of such
seizure, and, furthermore, the text
Of every letter would have been pub
lished in full"
On page 13 Of the pamphlets, refer
red to by the Temps" letter is
shown purported to have been writ
ten In Rodope, byt bearing the stamp
of 'Salonica. HOW did it get there,
when 1t was presumably captured be-
fore 1t started on it's journey, and
should not have gone to Salonica any
way? The letters TEEN with inaccura-
cies, even the translations into 6ther
languages have been tampered with
In order to give them the color most
likely to suit the nation before whom
the evidence was placed.
Ten letters with no envelopes and
no addresses whatever! 1t is incon-
ceivable that the Bulgarians should
not reproduce the envelopes bearing
the names of the addressees had they
possessed anything of the sort. They
simply did not possess anything Of
the sort. 1t is equally inconceivablc
that Greek soldiers conflded their let
ters to the mail bags without envelope
or address.
Another pamphlet contains ,hoto-
graphs Of four wounded men, one
boy. These. they assert, are non-com-
blatant Bulgarians who were mutllatod
BY the Greeks. Even were this true,
the display Is ridiculous. Incidentally.
the pictures were taken by official or
der long after peace was declared The
rest Of the pamphlets are made up Of
assertions without proof Of any kind.
and pages OF impassioned .rcrcimina-
tion and wordy sophistries.
Hundreds Of photographs OF IT,
burned cities Of Macedonia are obtain
able. Hundreds also of the piled VIC
tins OF Bulgarian fury. The testimony
of scores OF disinterested foreigners Of
unquestloned veracity support in lc
tail every protest OF the Greek Gov
erpmenf Tho cnptanfiopa oP tho Dn1