Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-18
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 for Aims But
Voices Protest Against Wholesale
Atrocities. Murder and Rspine.


When the Bulgarians decided upon
the campaign Of deco ptlon whereby
they hoped 70 influence the outside
world and shift the blame Of their
misdeeds. they found only two news
pa per men willing 20 aid and abet
them. They were SIR. Bourchier, Of
the Loudon Times. and MIR. Wallis, Of
the Westminster Gazette.
IN the embattled counties or at
tached 70 the various armies we're
more than seventy war correspon.
dents Mr. Boucher and Mr.. Wallis
stood alone In their partisanship for
Bulgaria for reasons that will form
the basis Of another article. Suffice
for us 70 say, for the purposes Of this
statement that both Of these gentle.
men admit that they made Sofa. their
headquarters during al the Gre CO.
Bulgarian war, and consequently
we're never eye witnesses for or
against either army.
In fact the BulRarians took good
care thst no foreign correspondents
should accompany their troops; they
had determined IN advance upon the
determination Of the Greeks In Mace.
donna, and were, therefore, unwilling
Co allow followers who might become
critics. On the other hand, all the
war correspondents who went to the
front with the Greek army are unani.
nous in giving testimony to the afro
cities perps trated by the Bulgarians,
not only during the second campaign,
but also IN the Greco-Turkieh war.
Shortly after the opening OF The
h0stiities of the war between Greece
aud Bulgaria the following despatch
was sent 70 all the Greek, Turk ish
and European newspapers. This doc
ument was signed by the most promi-
nant Mohhmmedan citizens Of The
Doirsni district and eountersigned by
three Bulgarian priests:
We wish the martydom OF the
Macedonians and the savage conduct
Of the Bulgrians to be made known to
all the nations, through the medium
Of the press Of the whole civilized
world We wish the atrocities com
mitted by the Bal gariau army 10 the
District OF DJirani from the very fret
moment IF the invasion to be made
public.
"They proianed the mosques, turn
ing them into churches. They de.
stroyed the beautiful Minaret Of the
Mosque Of Doirani They carried
away forty True Believers and
slaught red them like sheep. They
looted our homes and burned three
monastercs. They butchered thirty
thousand Mohammedans who sought
refuge in Rsdovista, Osmanice and
Stromnitza, whittier they had fed
from the devastated district of Dol
rani
fhey forced the Turks Of Guirs-
al0 and Guiria-Zir to abjure the re-
ligion OF their fathers and compelled
them, 40 the point Of the bayonet, TO
accept baptism which was administer
ed by priests brought from Sofa for
that purpose. The Bulgarisns spared
not the virtue Of women or young
girls in the village OF Sofia The wo
men and girls who were working in
the tobacco plantations we're attacked
in broad daylight before the men Of
their families.
Reed what the Rev. Gustave Michel,
head of the French Catholic Mission
Of Killsis, has 20 say. The despatch
which we quote was sent by him 90
the press of Paris
Most shocking crimes have been
perpetrated in this town and through
out the surrounding country by the
Bulgarians. With my own eyes have
seen the massacre Of helpless human
beings. In the village Of Kourkouf
a band of Bulgarians headed by the
bandit Dontsioff, forced all the male
population within the confines of the
moqsues, which they then burned to
the ground. Compelling. at the
point Of the sword, the women and
children TO witness the frightiul
scene, seven hundred men were burn
ed alive Those who tried to escape
we're hot as they ran. have visited
Kouftkoi and have seen the cslcined
human remains 7 offered money to
some starving women and was accused
by Bulgarian soldier of collecting
human heads Go send as cnriosities 70