Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-08-19
From the

FROM the Atlant1C.
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 it-great suffering and
distress undoubtedly eXtsts-the conse-
Quence Of terrible and devastating war.
Let generous America give generously If
she does not ask for aims
but she is voicing her protest against the
accusations of wholesale atrocities. muir
der and rapine publicly and officially
brought against her by Bulgaria, in an eff
fort to excite sympathy, and most of all
10 distract attention from the proved and
acknowledged atrocities committed by her
troops, which shocked and incensed the
whole civilized world.
BY declaring themselves the victims, not
the perpetrators. of unspeakable cruelties
and Wanton destruction. they have sought
to put the shoe on another's foot Their
activities in the broadcast dissemination
or defamatory literature concerning the
Greeks have reached every country on
earth. In America they have been given
unwarranted publicity and credit-unwar-
ranted in that the dreadful results of Bull
garlan ferocity are a matter of public rec
ora and are at the disposal of any one
who will give the time to ascertain them.
Unfortunately the ''lurid allegations
proved so colorful that they We're seized
upon with avidity by certain journalistic
interests and, with no thought of the in
justice involved. set forth as facts to the
public. The Greeks OF America are right
eously ind~ignant-they have not asked
help from any other country for their des-
iltute thousands at ~home-they have CO.
operated in strenuous self-sacrifice to suf-
flee to these pressing needs-but they do
demand and expect common justice and a
fair hearing from the American people.
| The very nanpr that iS now CONDUCTING a
embarrassing campaign and passing
around the hat for Bulgaria printed in it's
columns not six months ago the follow
ing:
With the exception of the Greeks, who
observed the principles of humanity and
Christian warfare, the Balkan peoples
have shown themselves to be hordes of
murdeTerS and savages."
The present attitude of this publication
cannot be due to any change of convic-
tion-for the facts remain the same-to
the shame of Bulgaria. they are now a
part of the history of the Nineteenth CEN
tury. The reason then must be in the
sensational elements involved. Let the
sympathizers with the Heroes of the
Balkans urge their readers to help the
stricken nation. but when 1t comes to de-
nunciation of those responsible for the
prevailing misery existing now, not only
in Bulgaria but all over the Balkans, let
tnem place the blame where 1t belongs or
else pass silently over the whole tragic
subject. Have they forgotten the state
ments of Sir Edward Grey in the house
of commons. or the results of the French
Investigations? Yet Mr.. Pichon, MINISTER
of foreign affairs. unqualifiedly confirmed
the accusations and the protest of the
Greek government against the Bulgarian
army, when with the close Of the second
Balkan war they began in their retreat
the systematic slaughter of the Greek non
combatants in Macedonia and the looting
and total devastation of the country.
The first secretary of the French legation
at Athens, acting under instructions from
the home office. visited Series DoXato and
Nigrita Immediately after evacuation by
the Bulgarians. His personal report was
of the most revolving u~re-hundr of
d~efenseless Greeks had been massacred
in a manner that only fiendish Tartar in
genuity could have imagined or executed.
The consuls of Austria and Italy at Salon
lea visited Series, and after official in
spection of the smoking ruins of the once
fiourishing city and the questioning of the
few survivors confirmed in every detail
the righteousness of the bitter protest of
the Greek government.
The wholesale and nhuman slaughter of