The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
ANNIHILATE SERBS
Little Nation Suffers worse
Fate Than Belgium.
Untold Atrocities Visited on
People by Bulgars.
SAVED BY AMERICAN AID
Helps To Feed Captive People
and 10000 Held by Germany.
Serb Peasant Hung by Tongue
Illustrates Bulgar Rule.

Corfu. Island of Corfu, NOV. "a
(By Staff Correspondent of The AS
sociated Press. 1.-THE funds ad-
vanced to Serbia by the United States
Serbian people," said the Serbian
minister of public works, DR.. Mont
chic Nintchitch, who has peer
charged with the expenditure OF the
advances from the American govern
Doctor Nintchitch had been telling
of the various uses the American
money was put to. for the $4,000 SER
biAn prisoners in Germany and Tor
informed civilians, refugees, ana pen
sions. But now he turned to a story
of the cruelty and butchery which the
Bulgars are still prosecuting against
the Serbs.
any other country" said DR.. Mint
chich, "for not even the ruin OF Bel-
GUM and the devastated regions Oh
France can compare with what ser
bia has suffered The people of Bel
GUM and France had seapoIts TO 90
to and escape in ships, and they had
railways. But the Serbian people
had no ports for escape, and when
the Monastir railway line was cut BY
the Bulgars they had no. railway. So
they were literally caught in a trap,
with no means of egress, and except
for those who made the exodus across
the mountains. the whole peasant
population has come under the con-
troll of the Bulgar invaders. More
over Belgium and France have been
under the eyes of England and Amer
lea, while Serbia is cut off from the
world, with no knowledge of what
goes on there. and no mail from there
for two years.
Stripped of All Property.
1.-The Serbian peasants have been
stripped of everything. All their
horses, cattle and livestock has been
taken, and their farm machinery has
been destroyed. Men, women and
revolving manner, and on the most
flimsy pretext. In this the Bulgars go
far beyond the Austrials, for the
Austrians have trial and q formal
condemnation to death. But the Bull
gars have no trial or condemnation.
The order to kill is given. and the SOL
diers are practically free to take life
on their own judgment without any
ORDER
As documentary evidence of this
killing, the Serbian ministry of foreign
affairs have had photographs, copies
! of which were given to the cores
! pondent showing six Serb peasants
strung up side by side from rough
stakes driven in the ground. with a
cross-piece above for the moose, while
| groups of soldiers and officers are
gathered about, laughing over the
contortions of the victims.
/
Serbia and the Serbian people as an
initiated" Dr. Nintchitch went on.
ITO this end they hold that the Serbs
no longer exist, and every Serb must
become a Bulgar, take Bulgar name
and become a Bulgar citizen.
Draft Serbs To Fight Serbs.
"Our minister of war, General Ter
fitch, has just gone thru a trying fam
| lily experience of this kind. His aged
mother, over 10 years old, remained
| in Serbia after the exodus, as she was
| too old and feeble to make the jour
ney. All trace of her had been lost,
| but when she was finally located, Gen
eral Terzitch applied thru the relief
authorities for her transfer. But to
this application the reply has now
come back from the Bulgar authori-
ties that Nine. Terzitch cannot leave
the country as she had become Bull
gar citizen.
The drafting of Serb peasants as
soldiers in the Bulgar ranks is one of
the worst forms of cruelty being prac-
ticed. This is Systematically carried
out, with notices posted in all public
| places telling ell men over II years
hof age to report for military duty.
| This placing of whole population In
the military service of the enemy is
j an unheard of cruelty, and contrary to
every rule of international dealing in
time of war. But 1t is justified by
the Bulgar on the theory that Serbia
does not exist and that the Serbs are
| Bulgars
Mother Insane in Prison.
"A member of the Serbian cham
Der of deputies was here yesterday,
and gave me a narrowing report Of
his family still in Serbia. One of the
boys had already been killed. The
second boy had been ordered to be-
come a Bulgar soldier. The mother
protested, whereupon she was sent to
Nish and put in prison. where she
went crazy. Meantime the boy or
dered to become a Bulgar soldier had
escaped to the mountains and a price
has been placed on his head. This
experience in the family of the Ser
bian de .uty is merely typical of the
| thousands we are hearing of from
all quarters daily.
I'VE have received full details of
the revolt which the Serbian peas
ants remaining in the country direct
ed against this Bulgar oppression"
the minister continued. This has
come in a letter from a well-known
teacher The revolt was really a re-
volt of women-of the Serbian moth
ers, wives and sisters-in a frantic
protest against having their sons, hus-
bands and brothers forced into the
} Bulgar ranks to fire on Serbian sol