Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-19
BALKAN WAR INVESTIGATION


 Results 'r an exhaustive investigation into the con- ditions in the Balkans during and following the war of 1912 and 1913 with view to clarifying the public opinion which has been bafaed by conflicting reports and beguied of unauthoritatve detail were made public yesterday by the Balkan Commission Of Inquiry of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 Pessmism based On the terrible moral consequences of war which series of unutterable atrocities. characterzes the conclusions of the commission as to the possibilities of immediate peace or stability among the Balkan nations The situation at present in the final Judgment of the commission, is hardly susceptible of pacific solution Under present conditions" reads the report, "the case seems well nigh hopeless"
 stabbing through the gamor of warfare which at tended Che triumphant demobrzaton of servan troops and all the customary gorfcations of the ,ioors the commission found conditions of desolation. utter wretehedness and social and moral disintegraton which defed full portrayal even in its comprehensive report This moral and chaos Is the direct re- suits according to the of tbe unspeakable practices Of the contending forces The recital Of these barbarues which forms principal part of Che report is the first detailed and collective presenta ton of facts which have far been offered 10 the world principally in Che form of newspaper reports and charge and counter charge The list of horrors compiled from the statements Of eye-witnesses of whose reliability the commission youches is at times more startling than the unsupported rumors which were formerly received with increduliy
 In this indictment brought by the commission against all the contendug forces no one of the Bal kan nations is spared Atrocities committed upon the noncombatant Moslems in Macedonia surpassed in many instances the crimes committed by the race from which the Christian nations were supposed to have received their education in the refnements of cruelty The barbarous acts and inhuman reprsals performed by Bugarans servians and Greeks against each other would be incredible if they were not supported by unquestonable evidence. From the data supplied by the commission it is impossible to argue that one of the nations less violent than another in its ghastIy warfare
 The commission gives three causes of the war mich followed the demand of the allies for autonomy of the European vlayets and redvison according to nationality. These were the weakness and want of foresight of Turkey; the powerlessness of Europe to Impose on constitutional Turkey the reforms she had introduced into an absolute Turkey; and the con sciousness of increased strength which alliance gave to the Balkan states.
 In weighing the charges made by the Greeks against the Bugarians which have already become familiar ]
 "The Greeks usual suppress all mention of the proyocaticn which the inhabitants had given. The Bulgarian account is silent as to the manner in which their reprsals carried Both narratives con tain inaccuracies and neither of them tells more than part of the truth.
 The commission disproyed several extrayagant sto- res of the torture death and mutiaton of certain in- divduala by anding them alive in good health It  accusations made by of the diplomatic represen. atves of Greece in foreign capitals that the fingers and ears of women had been found the pockets of captured Bulgarian soldiers
 There nevertheless remains. when these manifold trayesties of fact brushed aside heavy indct. mont which rests upon ineontroyertible evidence
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