Arizona republican., 1917-09-04
TELLS OF GROSS CRUE[T|Es VISITED
 UPON STREAMS
Republican A. p. Leased WireI

to the possession Of the Serbian au thorities recently Q letter, written by Serbian patriot who barely escaped hanging by the Bulgarians. He de- scribes in some detail the instructions in Serbia in April, last, the fate that they met, and unspeakable cruelties visited upon the insurrectionists by the Bulgarians.
 His letter. the original is at present in the Serbian archives but can be seen at any time, is written with his own blood from his hiding place in the Serbian mountains. and is addressed to his friend, a Serbian captain serving with the Saloniki forces The captain fell into captivity not long after re- ceipt of the missive but succeeded in smuggling it out by means of a Serbian sentry.
 The letter frankly ~rvises all Serb ians to kill themselves rather than submit to capture; it tells of the fore ible deportation of thousands of chil- dren to Constantinople; of the frightful tortures inflicted upon prisoners be- fore they are executed by the Bull garians, such as hanging by the toneue: Of Fibbets erected everywhere to dispose of Serbian prisoners of war especially of insurrectionists.
 The names of both sender and recip- tent have been suppressed for obvious reasons, but both are on file with the original of the letter, which runs as follows
 Here I am in a mountain which is actually. my sad residence. I escaped on April 25th from the Bulgarian pris- son where l vas incarcerated with
 
 surrounded and captured in the revolt near ------ There had been 25,00C of us insurgents; we had moreover fought with a German division that de- feated us and drove us to flight Ther we had been attacked by two Bulgari- an divisions armed with cannon and machine guns. 1 was taken, put ir prison and condemned to be hanged but, during the night my friend - arrived with a band in Prokouplie silled the sentinels and rescued me. IT consequence I was able to reach the mountains. There are more than 5,O0C of us insurgents. Nearly all of the other mountains are filled with in surgents.
 The Bulgarians had summoned al the male population between the age.
 
 | them in the army and send them i'm. mediately to the front. At the same | time they had gathered together al the young people between 13 and t md had sent them to Constantinople It was this vaAdal process of thest monstrous Mongols that provoked tn, I revolt. The unfortunate mothers. ex. | asperated by the cries of their childrer | as they were carried off by force. at. | tackled the Bulga ,ians with tstones | This was a genuine revolt, to whicl | the Bulgarian replied with gibbets {, | which they hanged women and chil | dren. Finally the people, exhausted anC 1 revolting, threw themselves upon tn, | Bulgarian despots. Men and womel carried off arms and ammunition, frs | 70 Prokouplie, then to Leskovatz | Lebane, Vrania, Vlassotintze, Zayet | thar, kniagevatZ, Porajevatz and tn, villages
 It was agreed that the insurgent Of Zayetchar and its suburbs shout, march on Nish, that the rest of us 1 rom Prokouplie, Leskovatz an, Vranie should do the same and, re tinted. should take possession of tn ity. unfortunately those from Zayet | mar were late; we got ahead of then ma nad, alone to withstand an attacl rom a German division. We beat then md took away two batteries and 80
 oldlers. The battle took place nea | HtofadJa. From there we carrie, LeDane Leskovatz and Prokoupie O "hlch we made ourselves masters Then we attacked Nish carrying tn iespots and half of the city.
 1 Meanwhile two Bulgarian division irrived, and bloody battle developed we should have been able to defeat tn 5ulgarlans as We had defeated tn iermans If they hao not used a COW lrdly strategy to prevent us from at lacklng them; they forced the Womel ma the children to march in front O -nelr ranks. Unable to fire upon ou lWn people, we withdrew as far a AorVlnSfad, where a new battle bega ma where the Hungarians attacked u rom behind. We made an opening an
 ook refuge in the mountains. Sine was dead from fatigue I was take prisoner and with a dozen other in iurgents was condemned to be hanged waiting While the gibbet was prepared we were lncarcerated in the prison c Prokouplie, but one of our bands kille
 ne garrison and rescued us.
 l So here l am in the mountain C
 It may be that when yo
 eau these lines I shall no longer b
 mong the living, but the insurrectio
 annot be snuffed out so easily, fo
 ne Bulgarians are proceeding system
 tlcaily to exterminate our nation. O
 he 25th of April they placed aboar
 rains at Belotintze 5000 children be l Ween the apes of 10 on1 15 honn