Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-10
STORIES OF THE WAR
crueIties of RuIearians.
Correspondence of The Associate'
 PreSS0

1 (Correspondence of The Associated l Press.)
 There has come into the possession of the Serbian authorities recently a | letter, written by a Serbian patriot who barely escaped hanging by the Bu1garians. He describes in some de- l tail the insurrections in Serbia In April 1s,, the fate that they met, and unspeakable cruelties visited upon the ! finsurrect.onists by the Buigarians. His letter, the original is at present in the Serbian archives but can be se1A at any time is written with his own blood from his hiding place in the Serbian mountains, and is addressed ing with the salonki forces. The captain fell into captivity not long after receipt of the yrissive but suc- ceeded Tn smuggling it out by means of 8 Serbian sentry.
 The letter frankly advises all Ser bians to kill themselves rather than submit to capture; it tells of the for cible deportation of thousands of children to Constantinople; of the frightful tortures inflicted upon pris- oners- before they are exe':utkd by the
 Bulgarans, such as hanging by the tongue; of gibbets erected everywhere
 to dispose of Serbian prisoners of
 war, especially of h.su,-ectionists.
 The names of both sender and re- cipient have been suppressed for ob-
 vious reasons, but both gre on file
 with the original of the letter, which
 runs as follows:
 Here I am in a mountain which is,
 actually, my sad residence. l es-
 capped on April 25 from the Bulgarian
 prison where I was incarcerated with
 twenty comrades after having been
 surrounded and captured in the re-
 yolt oo neer There had been over fought with a German division
 that defeated us and drove us to flight. Then we had been attacked by two Bulgarian divisions armed with cannon and machine. guns. l was taken, put in prison and condemned to be hanged, but, during the night, my friend arrived with 8 band in
 Prokoupie, killed the sentinels and
 rescued me. In consequence I was able to reach the mountain. There Nearly all of the other mountains are filled with insurgents.
 "The Rulgarians had summoned all the male population between the ages of 16 and 65 in order to incorporate them in the army and send them i'm mediate'y to the front. At the sane time they had gathered together all the young people between 13 and 16 It was this vandal process of these monstrous Mongols that provoked the revolt. The unfortunate mothers; ex- asperated by the cries of their chil- dren as tney were CarfleQ CIT Dy 1Orce, atta cked the Bulgarians with stones. This was a genuine revolt, to which the Bulgarians replied with sibbets to which they hanged women and chill dren. ESsially the pesplc exhausted and revolting, threw themselves upon the Bulgarian depots. Men and wo- men carried off arms and ammunition, first to Prokouplie then to Leskovatz, Lebane, Vrania, V1assotintze, Kniage- vatz, PoJarevatz and the villages.
 IT. of Zayetchar and its suburbs should march on Nish. that the rest of us, from Prokoupiie, Leskovatz and Vra- nie, should do the same ari reunited, should take possession of the city. Un- fortunately those from Zayetchar were late; we got ahead of them and had, alone, to withstand an attack from a German division. We beat them and took away two batteries anc 800 sol diers. The battle took place near Gitoradja. From there we carried