Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-19
GREECE ASKS JUSTICE
OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
A Strong Appeal Comes for Greek
Nation Through Editor Vlaslo
Of Atlantis.
ATROCITIES OF BULGARIA.
Greece Does Not Ask ior Aims But
Voices Protest Against Wholesale
Atrocities. Murder and Rppire

AT Plantza the same band Of ma
rauders carried their devilishness 70
still greater lengths. They drove the
male inhabitants into the mosque,
/ which they burned, compe ling, as be-
\ fore, the women 20 witness the afro
/ cious proceeding, Immediately after
I which the women were stacked togeth-
er end burned alive in the square be-
fore the ruins Of the mosque. In
Rainovo men and women were slain
and the bodies thrown into the wells.
AT Kilkls the Bulgarian inhabitants
destroyed the mosque end mastered
their fellow-townsmen Of the Moslem
faith.
'On several occasions ! have held
converse with Bulgarian Comnitadjis. b
With unbelit vable callousness they
/ hoasted of the atrocities they had
committed. Among the irregulars /
was surprised 20 find merchants Of
Sofa. students at the Bulgarian uni
verities. even professional men, One
man, a student Of literature, assured
me that with his own hand he had
killed no less than one hundred and
forty Greeks.
~ was called to the bedside Of
dying man. He had been beaten t.
death for resisting a 'Comnitadjis,
who had seized upon bis daughter
applied to the French Consul at Sa-
lonica, begging him 10 exert his
power to put an end TO these massa-
cres. which are the disgrace e Eu-
rope. He replied that he could do
nothing, because the Bulgarian gov.
/ eminent had authorized and organized
these band of irregulars that they
might co operate with the regular
a rmy, and that consequently their
acts rect ived Bulgarian sanction
These documentary proofs of Bull
garian ferocity are but few Of the
great mass Of dispositions, letters and
governmental reports that lie ready
TO the hand Of the investigator. An
army of witnesses attest the truth
OF every dreadful allegation.
These witnesses are Of all nations, all
faiths, all walks Of life. They are
not interested, as Bulgaria is inter-
ested, in endea voring 20 justify her
uniustifable acts; they are interest
ed. as all should be, in the protection
of non-combatants.
Captain Trapman, VI the London
Daily Telegraph, in a despatch from
Denir-Hissar, reproduced in the New
York Times OF July l8, 1913 wrote
that:
after careful investigations ]
am convinced that during the past
three months more than 10, 600 men,
women and children had been massa-
cred in Macedonia alone.
This statement was reiterated by
Mr.. Stevens, another correspondent
of the same English paper, who like
wise conducted an investigation into
the Bulgarian atrocities ia Mace
donia. CaTtgin Trapman, in COM
munication dated July 10, which was
reprinted in the New York Journal,
wrote as follows:
81 will never forget what ! saw in
Nigrita. Greek village of 5000 in
babitants and about / 800 houses.
Today it is heap of smoking debris,
| from WilANn NDAlGs hAN NANA VI WI AFA
human flesh. From a distance the
roofs Of the remaining forty-nine
houses appear to be red, owing to the
contrast with the blackened ruins.
Search parties were working here
and there, trying to locate the bodies
of those who persisted. -Four hun
bred and severity were burned alive
or killed by the Bulgarians in this
village alone.
King Constantine invited Us to
continue our Investigations in the
other towns Of this district, where
an entire regiment is detailed to the
work Of disposing of the corpses Of
the murdered peasants. IN Eigrita
the Bulgarians massacred more than
1.,500 Greeks and many women were
outraged; their condition is pitAble.
| All the houses were sacked. One can
hardly find in the history Of war q
record Of greater savagery than tnac
I displayed by the Bulgarian in the
district of Nigrita.
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