The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-18
FLAMES ALL OF BALKAN
STATES FOR ATROCITIES
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,i,,Is that the fingers and ears OF
',,,o,, had been found in the pockets
~, captured bulgarian soldiers
.rhore nevertheless remains, when
hose manifest travesties of fact are
,'..,,sho, aside. a heavy indictment
-, rests upon incontrovertible evil
dence.'
r,,s indictment which consists
.,t,lv or the events ut DoNato ana
ncmI- Hlssar, with the burning OF Sc
10 carefully weighed and inVcst-
,,od I'm the report of the commission
,,hicb SAYS in conclusion;
Case Against Bulsarians.
"rhc case against the Bulgarians
,,bich remains after critical eNalnl-
.,tton of the evidence. is sufficiently
,,ravc I'm each case the Bulgarlars
octed under provocation ana IN each
,ase thc accusation is greatly eNagser-
,tod but their reprisals were none the
,oss lawless and unmeasured
The commissions Judgment ON re-
r,rted excuses committed by the
creeks among the bulgarian peasantry
,,.oy founded on vivid narratives told
lac oyc- witnesses for whose Veracity
tho commission holds itself response
iJo An intelligent Bulgarian boy of
r,urteen who escaped the onslaught ol
the Greeks by feigning death. told the
commission that he saw his mother
shot and killed by a Greek cavalry
man that he saw his village burn, ana
,b,t a Greek trooper had all but killed
him with "a revolver shot ana SABRE
emf the marks of which he bore. the
story WAS corroborated and ii was the
oniniou of the commission that the in
cident was typical.
Evidence gathered regarding the
village of Akanjeli satisfied the COM
mission that, although the village SUB
mittcd from the first. ii was sacked
and burned: the Greek troops gave
Themselves up openly 20 debauch OF
Inst; and that many of the peasants
were killed wantonly and without pro-
vacation The mass of evidence at-
cording to the report, goes to show
cases which the commission Itself In
yestigated. In one instance number
Of Europeans witnessed the brutal
conduct of detachment of Greek reg
ulars under three officers. Fltteen
wounded Bulgarian soldiers took re-
fupe I'm the Catholic convent of Pail
ortsi and were nursed by the sisters
t,i fn 1 In
Greek commandment whereupon Il de-
tachment was sent To search for Bull
garlan chief who was not there. III
the course of the search the bulgarian
Catholic priest was severely logged ~
the presence of Greek officers. y Greek
soldier attempted To violate nun, fio
bulgarian women and young SIR
we're tortured and IA large number ~
pcasants carried off To prison without
reason. The officer in command threat
cncd To kill Father Alloat on the spot
and tu burn down the convent.
Greeks Admit Truth.
IF such things could be done t.
Europeans i'm building under the pro
lection of the French flag" continues
the report. lit is not difficult To believe
that Bulgarian peasants Jared incoIn
parably worse. Denial unfortunately
is impossible. No verdict which coulC
be based on the evidence collected b.
the commission could he more severe
than that which Greek soldiers have
pronounced upon themselves.
4 series of twenty letters writ
ten hv Greek soldiers. containing den
nlto avowals of the brutalities the.
had committed were studied with par
tcular care by the commission.
The commission was unable To IN
form itself fully on the conduct ol III
Scrvian army toward bulgarian non
Combatants. but it regards the dcsoIat
waste of burned villages as slSnlhcah
No moral judgment is ventured upo
the conduct of the Balkan races. Far
. tial Cundoncment of their oitenses
found by the commission in the IA
that the Balkans grew Up amid Turk
iSh models of warfare, the memory q
which was still an open wound.
I'm "A subsequent chapter there IL u
exposure of the atrocities commute
at Adranoplc by the Bulgarians an
rcprisals by the Turks. The recital {
murder. massacres, torture, pillaS
rape and unspcakabe cruelties rs con
tinucd. Instances include the drown
ing of forty five Turks at kaNagatc
10y Bulgarians the numbering OF thre
hundred people in and about Rodos'
as Turkish reprisal. \ Greek repol
states that the Turkish army kllle
burned and disbursed a total popuit
ton OF 1880 in the Niagara district
Duty of Other Nations.
In commenting on the bulgarian
Scrvan country the commission SAY
the things we have described horrip
as they are. are evidence of an abno
mai condition. which cannot contlhu
Nature herself revolts against such e.
ccsses as we have observed on the pa