The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-05
BUlGARS |NO|CT
RUMAh|Ah ARMY
Investigation Shows TndcscTiba BILE
Atrocities At Hands of Cruel Sol
diery In the Dobridja.
RAp1NE AND INCENDIARIsM.
Civilians Robbed and Murdered, and
Helpless Young Women First As
saultesi and Then Slain by Captors

Berlin, via Sayville, Oct. 4.--The
Sofia correspondent. of tho Frank
furter Zeitung has just submitted a
report Of the investigation of Ru-
manian atrocities in the Dobrudta
conducted by Charge d'Affaires War
field and several newspaper cores
pondents.
Conditions in the towns OF Do
hrttich, Baltnrtd. Sflistria and their
surroundings were investigated. The
correspondent says the Trans-O Ocean
News Bureau writes:
We saw everywhere on our trip
in the towns and in the country pa
thetic expressions Of terror on the
faces Of the inhabitants caused by
these atrocities Everywhere we fol-
lowed the trail of assassination and
incendiarism. and everywhere we
heard the same complaint Of loss of
life and property
AN former reports regarding
atrocities without exception were
proved to be correct by our investi-
CATION.
zone entire village was destroyed
by fire and large quantities Of corn
belonging 10 people was carried away,
partly by force and partly by the use
Of false promises. Men Of all stations
of life were arrested and appeared on
the streets and shot. The prettiest
girls were driven into the Rumanian
trenches, where they first were attack
ed gNf then murdered This We can
state ia especially true Of the neigh
borhood of Silistrta.
It has been proved that the Ru-
manians ravaged the country In an In
descrihable manner on direct orders
Of their superiors.
The correspondent states that az
early "a In July the Rumanians had
begun their systematic confscation OF
beasts Of burden and had forbidden
imports and had seized foodstuffs
Thus already before their declara-
ton of war. $4,000 people, with an
equal number OF carts filled with pro-
visions, had been taken from the New
Dohrudja The victims were told
that they ought TO deliver the v,ctuals
az payment to the Rumanian authori-
ties The fate of these victims is UNI
known.
Saw Traces of Massacre.
In the Dobrudja. In the former rail-
road building. we saw traces of the
massacre of August 30, continues the
corresponds On August 20 sixty
men were Imprisoned, all OF whom
had been arrested on the street All
were shot on the following day. In
the village of Mastradin, north of
Dobritsch. the Rumanians arrested
thirty eight Bulgarians and Thirty
Turks and carried off sixty four other
men. The town of Ballaeia, south
OF Dorbrttshs is a heap of ruins. OF
! 80 houses only twenty remain UNI
damaged,
In the hospitals we met many
severely wounded civilians who gave
details Of the massacre. Still worse
in Slistria, the villages of Kallipe-
trovo, Aidemi. Srederna and Bahuk
were destroyed and are srnouldering
ruins. There even women and chill
dren were shot or locked up In houses
+ which were then burned and the girls
attacked
The number Of killed wounded and
exled civilian inhabitants viii reach
about 60, 600. Up to September 20 in
the Dobritsch County alone 3 500 peo-
pie were registered as missing.
The correspondent adds that every
body IN the Dobrndja knows that this
was considered only as a prologue OF
moro terrible messncres planned but
frustrated by the prompt advance OF
the bulgarian army.