The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-28
E. H. DILLON & GO. GREECE ASKS FOR JUSTICE

(Atfantis, Greek Organ, Jan. 24.)ss.
 For some Ifme past the suffering and starving hordes Of Bulgaria have been called to the attention and sym patllies of the American public with emphasis and persistence-so be it- great suffering and distress undoupT- sedly exists-t1le consequences of ter- rible and devasting war. and the un- willingness or inability of a grasp1ng government and a people lacking both patriotism and coordination to grap- pie with conditions and bring order out of chaos. Let generous America give generously if she wiiI---Greece does ask for aIIns-but she is voicing her protest against the accusations of wholesale atrocities, murder and rapine publicly and officially brought against her by Bulgariasa in an effort to excite sympathy, and most of all, to distract attention from the proved and acknowledged atrocities com 1rliffed by her troops which shocked and ineensed the whole civilized world
 By. declaring themselves the victims not the perpetrato rs, of unspeakApie scri1stties and sVanton destruction, they have sought to put the shoe on an other,S foot" Their activities in the broadcastt dissemination of defamatory literature concerning the Greeks have reached @every country on earth. In c7 7- warranted publicity and credit--un- warranted in that the dreadful results of Bu1 garian sferocity are in a matter of public record and are at the dis .posal< of aany one wIae. will give the tineqto ascertain her1- as Es1a
 Unfortunately tf1esglurid aI1egations proved so coIoTfu1 that they were seized upon with avidity by certain Journalistic interests and, with no thought efgthe injustice ihvolvedsTset for as facts to the public. eThe Greeks of Americia are righteously indignant-tl1ey have not asked help from any other country for their de- ;stitute thousands eat hone-they have co-opeTated' in strenuous self-sacrifice to suffice to these pressing heeds-but they do demand and expect common Justice and a fair hearing from the Americian people. The very paper. fhatsis now conducti tirg1a waitewashing campaign and. passing around the hat for Bulgaria printed ins it's columns not six months ago the foIlowing.+ With the exception of the Greeks, who observed the principles of hu- manity and Christian warfare, the Balkan people have shown themselves to be hordes Of n1urderers and saw ages, The present attitude of this pub Iica ton cannot be due. to any change of coIfvietion--for the facts re- main the salne-to the shame of Bull
  tory ofs the Ninefeenth Century. The reason then must be in the sensational clements Involved. Let the syInpath- izers with the Heroes of the Ba1kans.' urge their readers 10 help the stricken nation, but when it comes to denun cfaiioa of those responsible for the pre- vaifing misery existing now, not only in Bulgaria but all over the Balkans, let them place the blame where it be-, longs or else pass silently over the whole tragic subject Have they for gotten the stafementss Of Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons or the results of the French investigations? Yet MT. Pichon, Minister of Foreign fairs, u11qHalihedly confiraneH the accusations andss the protest of the Greek government against the Bun garian army when with the close of the second Balkan war they began. in their retreat the systematic slaughter of the Greek non cornbatants in Mace donia and 1.-the footing and total devast- ation Of 4the5 countryA The first See- retary of the French Legation at, At hens, acting under instructions from the Home Office, visited Serres Doxato and Nigrita immediately after evacu- ation by the Bu1garians- His personal report was of the most revo1ting nature .-hundreds of defenseless Greeks had been massacred in manner that only hendish Tartar Ingenuity could have imagined or executed. The eConsuls of Austria and Italy at Sa1onica visited RSerres. and after official inspection of the smoking ruins of the once four ishfng city and the questioning of the few survivors confirmed in every de- tail the righteousness of the bitter pro- test of the Greek government.
 .ss Even the few Bulgarian inhabitants of the deyasted area gave testimony to
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