New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-08
Peace Foundations Find
ings as to Atrocities
Taken Exception To.
HELLENIC LEGATION
PUBLISHES CHARGES
Says the Commissions "Inexcusa.
bic Work" Contains "UnWar-
ranted InsinuatiOnS."
from The Tribune Bureau !

Washington. June IA sensational at
tack is made on the Carnegie Peace
Foundation by the Greek government in
an official statement issued here to-day
by tho Greek Legation, as a result OF
the report of the foundations commits
sion which went to Europe to investigate
the alleged atrocities in connection with
the Balkan war, the charge being that the
commission slandered Greece through
msstatements and ignored documentary
evidence regarding the barbarity of the
Bulgarians.
The statement, which was given out oy
Alexander Vouros, the Greek Charge
d'Affaires. says in part:
I'm the first place, the commissions re-
port charges that in each instance OF
atrocities committed the Bulgarians acted
under provocation, and that in each case
the accusation was greatly exaggerated.
What does the report mean by 'provoca-
ton?
1T is a notorious fact that in Nigrita
more than 100 inhabitants were slaugh-
tered and the town was sacked by the
Bulgarans.
"In Dorian the Bulgarians killed the
Greek Bishop and thirty leading Greek
citizens
"In Stromnitza the Bugarians killed
three Greek men, one Greek woman and
sixteen Mussumans.
Killed a Bishop.
I'm Demir- Hissar 195 men were killed,
including the Bishop and one priest
I'm Series the Bulgarians bombarded
the city and burned it. after they had
pillaged II. The victims numbered more
than 100 according TO the first list. which
did not include the missing. Four thou
sand and fifty houses were burned, 1000
stores were looted, and eighteen churches,
the synagogues. the mosques, the schools
and the hospitals were burned. The Aus
tro-Hungarian Consulate was burned. and
the consul, his wife, children and refu-
gees In the consulate were taken prison
ers to the mountains and released only
after payment of ransom. The italian
Consulate was spared because of the pay
ment of ransom.
an Doxato, a city of only 1900 inhabi-
tants, 600 were slaughtered
garians have to burn these cities and
commit these wholesale murders? And
what excuse has the foundations commits
sion for daring TO excuse butchery OF
women, children and bishops?
"Why is it that in the foundation COM
missions report we find accusations only
against the Greeks? The report. which
was supposed to concern itself with the
affairs Of the Balkans. goes out Of its
way to charge the Greek colonists In New
York City with writing threatening letters
TO Queen Eleanor. stating that she woula
be in danger of death IL she made her
proposed trip TO New York
"The Carnegie report lays stress on the
fact that Greek accusations against the
Bulgarians have been quoted in the Amer
lean press It omits TO mention that ac-
cusations against the Greeks by King
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria were also quoted
in the newspapers Of America, as were
charges against the Bulgarfans made BY
the Servian6
THE commissions report asserts that
the rules of war were violated by all the
belligerents in the Balkan wars The laws
Of war were violated, but by the Bull
garians and not by the Greeks.
The full. detailed statement OF the
Greek government In reply to the abso-
lutely unwarranted and baselees charges
and insinuations in the Carnegie commits
sion's report viii be widely disseminated
within the next few weeks The report
gives extended and detailed proof Of Bull
garian atrocities committed against the
Greeks at the time when Greece and Bull
garia were allies II will represent the
Greek governments earnest effort TO cor
rect in some measure the terrific injus-
tice done to the Greek nation by the Car
negie commissions inexcusabe work"