The daily Gate City., 1914-02-06

lsAotic anu "clc uOsuS 70 lu6 u6teuSS-
less non-combatants of the country. al
IISady disseminated CURING the earlier
occupation of the territory By those
lsane barbarians.
Captain Trapman, of the Lcndon
Daily Telegraph, in a despatch from
lDenir- -Hissar, reproduced in the New
York Times of July IS. 1913, wrere
that
After careful invest;gaslona / .m5
convinced that during the past three
months more than $4,000 men, women
land children had been massacred in
Macedonia alone"
This statement was reiterated by
MIR. Stevens, another correspondent
of the same English paper, who like
wise conducted an investigation into
the Bulgarian atrocities In Macedonia
Captain Trapman, in a communication
dated July 10, which was reprinted in
i the New York journal, wrote as fol-
lows:
I will never forget what I saw in
iNfgrita, Greek village of 5000 in
lhabitants and about 1900 houses. To-
lday 1t is heap .of smoking debris
from which comes the odor of burned
human flesh. From a distance the
ircofs of the remaining forty-nine
houses appear to be red, owing to the
contrast with the blackened ruins.
Search parties were working here and
ifhnro {r1- 1,a al, -
those who perished. Four hundred and
Iseventy were burned alive or killed by
1.-THE Bulgarians in this village alone
King Constantine invited us to con-
itinue our investigations in the other
towns of this district, where an entire
regiment is detailed to the work OF
idisposing of the corpses of the muir
ldered peasants. In Nigrita the Bull
lgarians massacred more than 800
Greeks and many women were out
ragged. their condition is pitiable. All
the houses were sacked One can
hardly find in the history of war a
record of greater sasagery than that
displayed by the Bnlgarians in the dis
.ttrict of Nigrita"
A despatch from Mr.. stevens, of the
London Daily Telegraph. dated July
81, 1913, reads as follows:
4 At Gay-kioy, short distance from
Xanthi, the Bulgarians gathered the
entire population into the village
church and burned them alive, a
strong force being sent to guard the
building. Three hundred perished in
this way. The systematic and com
lpiete destruction the Bulgarians have
undertaken is proof positive that,
whatever their pretensions may be,
they do not expect to reoccupy the
TERRITORY. The Turkish inhabitants
lare enthusiastically grateful to King
Constantine, upon whom they look az
their deliverer. No discrimination is
shown between them and their Greek
fellow townsmen. The Greek army
has made rapid advance by forced
marches, in order to prevent the ex-
Termination of the peasantry. King
Constantine has issued an edict order
ing that the mosques which were con.
Iverted by the Buigarians into churches
shall be returned to the Mohammed
ans. At Cavalla great quantities OF
, petroleum and many bombs were
found in the public buildings. Evident
lily the Bulgarians had intended to de
: stroy that fourishing seaport and were
only prevented from so doing by the
timely arrival OF the Greek fleet. One
! hundred and forty prominent citizens
: were taken from the town OF xanthi
their fate is as yet unknown"
: The above despatch was printed in
the New York papers. The New YORK
Times OF July 81, 1913, printed the
, following from its London correspond
| ent, an account which shows that III
common with all savage races the Bul
garians are prey to superstitiout
fears:
"The correspondent Of the Dali,
Telegraph, now with the Greek army
describes the experiences of pro
fessor Of foreign languages at Series
who by his presence OF mind ant
dramatic powers saved the lives o
over two hundred men, women ant
children during the destruction of tha
city by the Bulgarians. During thu
night the Bulgarian soldiers broke in
to the professors room; he wa
ordered out of the house, but refused
to leave until he had dressed himself
On reaching the street he saw th'
city In flames and heaps of corpses il
the streets: shops and houses wer
being looted. While passing befor'
the Austrian consulate he observes
the door to be open, and. escapfni
from his captors, darted through II
, thinking to take sanctuary under tn
. Austrian flag. But he found Bu
gar;an officer with detachment o
soldiers already in possession VIII
were demanding that the consul ac
i. company them The consul re
a fused, until he was warned tha
y in few moments the hous
. would be fred. He then yield
J ed, and ordered that the court var
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