Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-10
GREEGE ASKS JUSTICE
OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
A Strong appeal Cones for Greek
Nation through Editor VIsslO
al Atlantis"
ATROCITIES OF BULGARIA.
Greece Does Not Ask tor Aims But
Voices Protest Arainss Wholesale
Atrocities, Gurdsf and nspiss


American Tobacco Company. station
d az the Macedonian seaport Of Ca
vaila, to bis relatives in America,
here il was given wide publicity by
The general press
No doubt you have read ia the
3apers that the Greeks hsve occupied
9availa and that their fee has arFiv-
d here The few days prior TO the
evacuation Of the town hy tho Bulua-
rians were the most dramatic expert
ance OF my life. On June 80 we
learned % the declaration Of war.
he Bulgsriana Immediately placed
about thirty Of the most prominent
citizens under arrest and took them
p the mountains They were to be
executed IL any signs Of aprifing
were shown by the townspe ople.-
Comnitadjis' began 70 pour into the
,itY. One must see these Comnitad-
lis in order 20 understand what man
asr Of men they are nothing more
or less than bFigands. And their ar
rival in q place IS usually the fore
runner Of massacre.
Naturally, the inhabitants were
panic stricken Terror grew from
day TO day until early in the morning
of the 7th inst, it reached it's climax
lhe news was circulated that the Bull.
garians intended Go evacuate the city
.he following night, and that they
would order a general burning and
massacre before retiring did not
st frst believe these reports, but IN
the afternoon new arrest of inauent-
ial Greeks were made. One Of our
empoyes was among those they sought,
but he escaped by hiding ia the ltal-
ian Consulate. When &C last he dared
10 return home be found bis whole
family Frustrated by despair for his
afety
1.-THE anxiety continued ia spite Of
he fact that the Bulgarian3 begsn
their retreat on Che aftern ION Of the
9Th. "A boat was secretly Despatched
chat night t0 the Island Thasos. not
FAR from Cavalla, 60 notify The Greek
deet oi tho impending danger. -Four
garships we're sent to our aid, enter
ing the harbor the following morn
ing. There was on demonstration Of
enthusiasm; the enemy was still too
loas for safety The Bulgarians in
their fight have committed frightiu
depgedationa Ia the neighboring towns
Serres was totally destroyed We
lost more than half million dollars
by the burning OF our warehouses,
and our men fled for their lives TO
Salonic0.
can Englishman, another Ameri-
can and ] went to Doxato, about
twenty miles from CagallR, 20 see
TIE ruins Of the town. ] hope ] shall
never have to lock at such a. sight
again. Not house was left stand-
ina. Over two thousand men, women
and children bad been massacreed
there. Infants had been impaled on
the pointed ends OF the fenc es
around the houses II was five days
after the catastrophe when we arrived
there and the survivors, who had man
managed 20 get away TO the Mills were
slowly beginning 70 drift back. 1t
was pitiful. was riding dew a
steep street when bad to turn out
for . man who was standing in the
middle OF the road His face was
utterly exproasionless, he did not
even see me- Here and there women
wera sitting among the ruins, some
AZ them weeping, some of them NUT
tering to themselves like mad Chiugs.
"Almust an the neighboring vile
lagos met ith the same fate AZ DoSa'
20. TIE countryside ia entirely de-
ssyte !. have not even begun 20 tell
YOU all the horrors. J don't believe
3ou ia Anne RIGA can comprehend how
ehastly It all is, or we would have had
an American warship here long ago.
In Cavalla we are, for the time being,
cut { Il from all communication and
unable 20 get into touch with our
Consul st Seloniea.
Shortly after the opening OF the
hostilitiesEof the war between Greece
and Bulgaria the following despatch
was sent 70 an the Greek, FUrkish
and European newspapers. This
document was signed hy the most
prominent Mohammedan citizens Of
! the Doirani diitrict and conutarsign-
"a by three bulgarisn PRIESTS
we wish the martyr3om Of the
/ Macedoniana and the savage conduct
of the Bulgarians to be made known
70 ali the nations. through The nee
dium Of the press Of the whole civi-
! lied world. We wish the atrocities
committed by the Bulgarian army il
tbe District Of Dirani from the very
first moment OF the Invasion 60 te
made public
They profaned the mosques, ,urn-
ing them into churches They Der
,r0yed ih beautiful Miaarrt 81 the
Mosque 81 Dirahi They carried swag
forty True Believers and slaughtered
I p n like sheep They looted our
/ homes end burnai three meuasteries.
they butchered thirty thousand Mo-
/ hsmme6ans who sought refuge n
Raaarista. Osmania and Stromniiza,
whittier they had fed from tins de-
vestatea district q D0irani
"They forced the Turks # GiTia-
Bala and Euiri SIR 70 abjure the
religion Of their fathers aud comFsll.
"a them, st the point Of the bayonet,
/ 20 aceept baptism which was admin.
isters hg priests brought from Sofa
for that purpose. The Bulgarians
snsYea rot the virtue q women and
u T.. Az. ill go Co..