Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-29
A Strong Appeal Comes for Greek
Nation Through EDITOR vlaslo
Of "AtIantis"
ATROCITIES OF BULGARIA.
Greece bees Not Ask To- Aims But
Voices PrOles, AgaiOs, whole
sale Atrocities, Murder sBd
Rapine.

some three hun ired Thousand.
The editor of the Atlantis, Scion j.
Vlasto, who is president of the Allan
tbs Publishing Company, Inc, writes
as follows, and the article is repro
duced in the interest of the Annapo-
lis Greek colony, which numbers
many thrifty business men and
women. The Atlantis SAYS
For some time past the suffering
and starving hordes of Bulgaria
have been called to the attention and
sympathies of the American public
with emphasis and persistence so
be il great suffering and distress un-
doubtedly exists the consequence Of
terrible and devastating war, and the
unwillingness or inability of a grasp
ing government and people lacking
both patriotism and coordination TO
grapple with conditions and bring or
der out of chaos.
Let generous America give gen
erously if she will-Grsece does not
ask for aims but she is voicing her
protest against the accusati ons OF
wholesale atrocities, murder and
rapine publicly and officially brough
against her by Bulgaria, in an effort
to excite sympathy, and most of ALT
to distract attention from the proved
and acknowledged atrocities commit
ted by her troops, which shocked and
incensed the whole civilized world.
''By declaring themselves the vic
Tins, not the perpetrators, of I'M
speakable cruelties and wanton de-
strdction, they have sought to put
the shoe on another's fJot. Their
activities in the broadcast dissemina-
ton OF defsmatory literature con-
corning the Greeks have reached
every country on earth. In Americs
they have been given unwarranted
publicity and credit--unwarranted in
that the dreadful results of Bulgarian
ferocity are matter of public RECORD
and are at the disposal of any one
who will give the time TO ascertain
the m.
Unfortunately the 'lurid allega-
tions' proved so colorful that they
were seized upon with ayidity by GER
tain acknowledgements and, with
no thought of the injustice involved,
set forth as facts to the public. The
Greeks of America are righteously
indignant have not asked help
from any other country for their des-
titute thousands at home-they have
cooperated ia strenuous self-sacrifice
to suffice to these pressing needs
but they do demand and expect com
mon Justice and fair hearing from
the American people.
'The very paper that is now con-
Quoting a withdrawing campaign ano
passing around the hat for Bulgaria
printed in its columns not six months
ago the following: With the excep.
ton of the Greeks, who observed tht
principles OF humanity and Christian
warfare, the Balkan peoples have
shown themselves to be hordes OF
murderers and savages. The pres
emit attitude of this publication can
not he due to any change of convic
for the facts remain the sam,
to the shame of Bulgaria, they are
now part of the history of tn,
Nine teenth Century. The reason,
then. must be in the sensational ele-
ments involved.
Let the sympathizers with the
Heroes of the Balkans urge their
readers to help the stricken nation,
but when it comes 10 denuncistion of
those responsible for the prevailing
misery existing now, not only in Bull
garis, 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 Commons
or the results of the French inve SIT
cations? Yet Mr.. Pichon, Minister
of Foreign affairs, unquslifedly coo
firmed the accusations and the pro-
test of the Greek government
against the Bulgarian army, when
with the close of the second Bslksn
wa-, they began in their retreat tie
systematic slaughter of the Greer
non-combatants in Macedonia and the
footing and total devastation of the
country.
'rhe first secretary of the French
Legation at Athens, acting ur der in
structions from the Home Office,
visited Series DoxatO and NigIita
Immediately after evacuation by the
Rulgarians. His personal report was
of the most revolving nsture-hun-
dreds of defeuseless Greeks had been
massscreed in manner that only
fiendish Tartar ingenuity could havs
Imagined or executed. The Consul
of Austria and Italy at Saloniea visit
ed series, and after official inspef
ton of the smoking ruins of the One
fiourishing city and the questioning
of the few survivors, confirmed ia
every detail the righteousness of th
bitter protest Ct the Greek govern
ment.
(Continued.)