The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-07

Co'u anu are dl the ulSpOSal or any one who will give the time to ascer- tain them.
 Unfortunatly the "Iurld allega- tions" proved so colorful that they were seized upon with avidity by certain journalistic interests and, with no thought of the injustice in- yolyed, set forth as facts to the pub lie. The Greeks of America are righteously indignant-they have not asked help from any other country for their destitute thousands at home-they have co-operated in strenuous self-sacrifice to suffice to these pressing needs-but they do demand and expect common justice and a fair hearing from the Amert can people. The very paper that is now conducting a witewashing cam paign and passing around the hat for Bulgaria printed in it's cOlums not six months ago the following With the exception of the Greeks, who observed the principles of hu- manity and Christian warfare, the Balkan peoples have shown them selves to be hordes of murderers and savages." The present attitude of this publication cannot be due 10 any change of conyiction-for the facts remain the same-to the shame of Bulgaria they are not part of the history of the Nineteenth Cen tu7y. The reason then must be in the sensational elements involved. Let the sympathizers with the He roes of the Balkans" urge their read CTS to help the stricken nation, but when it comes to denunciation of those responsible for the prevailing misery existing now, not only in Bull garia, 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 forgotten the statements of Sir Ed ward Grey in the House of Com mons or the result of the French in- vestigations? Yet MT. Pichon, Min ister of Foreign Affairs, unqualified ly confirmed the accusations and the protest of the Greek government against the Bulgarian army, when with the close of the second Balkan war, they began in their retreat the systematic slaughter of the Greek non4combatants in Macedonia and the footing and total devastation of the country. The first secretary of the French Legations at Athens, act ing under instructions from the Home Office, visited Serres DoXato and Nigrita immediately after evac- uation by the Bulgarians His per sonal report was of the most revolt ing nature-hundreds of defenseless Greesk had been massacred in a man ner that only fiendish Tartar ingenu ity could have imagined or executed The Consuls of Austria and Italy al
 Salonica visited Serres, and after official inspection of the smoking ruins of the once flourishing city and the questioning of the few suryiv ors confirmed in every detail the righteousness of the bitter protest of the Greek government.
 Even the few Bulgarian inhabit ants of the deyasted area gave tes timony of the insane fury of their conationalists. denouncing them as assassins and bandits who spared neither nonlcombatants nor their own countrymen.
 The wholesale and nhuman slaughter of the Mohammedan popu- lation by the Rulgarians during the Greco-Turkish war was officially con firmed by the British Foreign Minis ter. Sir Edward Grey's accusations were based on the British consular reports from Macedonia and Thrace, The Minister declined. however to make public the details of the matter contending tht consular reports were confidential, and moreover that he had refused to publish reports from the same consuls concerning the massacres committed by the Turks. Nowhere is there even question of Greek atrocities"
 Forgive us oh, ghosts of the Huns, if, in an endeaver to describe the Bulgarian atrocities, we have wrong ed you by comparing ther deeds to the traditions or horror you have left to posterity" wrote Siglor Luc- iano war correspondent of the Mes saggero of Rome and tho Secolo of Milan, after his visit to Macedonia and Thrace during the second Bal kan war, when he beheld the fe- mains of the towns and villages burn cd by the Bulgarians and the corpses of Greek and Turkish peasants slain or burned alive by the soldiers of Fedinand" Captain Cardale, of the British Royal Navy, accompanied opa Of +ha Erapch officials Ou his