Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-21
Committee has
MADE A REPORT
N COMMISSION ON
BALKAN SITUATION HAS
FILED LONG BRIEF.
TELL OF Many ATROCITIES
All Nations Concerned Deserve
the Censure of the Word for
bInh,,nsans Acts. u
TELL OF MANY ATROCITIES
All Nations Concerned Deserve

New York, May 20.-Results of ar
exhaustive investigation into the con
ditions in the Balkans during and fol
lowing the wars of 1912 and 1913 with
a view to clarifying public opinion
which has been baffled by conflicting
reports. and befOgged by unauthentic
detail we're made public tonight by
the Balkan Commission of Inquiry OF
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace.
Unwa7rantabIy Atrocious.
Pessimism based on the terrible
moral consequences of a war which
was a series Of unutterable atrocities,
characterizes 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
a pacific solution. Under present con-
ditions," reads the report, "the case
seems well night hopeless"
5h A, Long Report.
The report contains seven chapters
and a preface by Nicholas Murray
Butler. Copies of the report may be
had upon application to the Carnegie
Endowment, Washington, D. G.
General distribution is to be made
in a few weeks.
Every Aspect Considered. -
This formidable document careful
ly considers every conceivable aspect
of the Balkan situation beginning with
a short history of the Balkan people
and concluding with the moral and
social consequences of the war.
The, Glamour Eradicated.
Stabbing through the glamor of
warfare which attended the trump
liant rehabilitation of SerVian troops
and all the customary Qualifications Of
the yictors, the commission found
conditions of %desolation, utter
wretchedness and social and moral
disintegration which defied full por-
trayal even in its comprehensive re.
port. This moral and social chaos is
the direct result according to the com
mission, of the sUnspeakable pratices
of the ontending forces.
Three Causes Of the War. s
The commission gives three causes
of the war which followed the de-
mand of the allies for autonomy of
the European vilayets, and re-division
according to nationality. These were
the weakness and want of foresight of
Turkey; the powerlessness of Europe
to impose on a constitutional Turkey
the reforms she had introduced into
absolute Turkey; and the con-
Of increased strength which
alliance gave to the Balkan states.
Macedonia the Prime Cause.
The occupation of Macedonia by
Greeks and Servians and the threat
ened decapitation of the Bulgarian
nation fostered the germs of discord
among the Balkan allies which had
not been stiRed by treaties, the terms
of which were in continual dispute.
Alleged Bulgarian violations of treat
les and Servian transgressions fol-
lowed by mutual demands for con
cessi0ns and extensions of. frontier,
precipitated q war between the allies
which for wanton cruelty and whole.
sale demolition is almost %unparalle!.
ed.
Recital Of Honors.
The second chapter of the report
under the heading Of "The War and
Non-ComDatant Population is "a
recital Of these horrors. In a review
Of the acts committed by the Greeks
the Macedonian Moslems the
commission had at. it's disposal docu-
Of undouhted veracity which.
reported ,frightfuls massacres and a
systematic prescription Of Moslems
it found typical of the Greeks
practices.
The burning Of Villages and the
exodus of the defeated population is
! normal incident. What they have
suffered themselves they inlict on
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