Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-01
SERBIAN WRITES 0F BULGARIAN
 ATROCITIES Condemned To Death and Wrote Letter With His
 Own Blood.
PRISONERS OF WAR
 HANGED BY TONGUE
Children Taken From Mothers and Sent To COnstantinOple-WO Women and Children Forced To Precede
 EresMy ln Attack On Insurgents.
(Correspondence Associated Press)

Correspondents Associated Press)
 Paris, Aug. 28.-There has come into the possession of the Serbian authorl- ties recently a letter, written by a Serbian patriot who barely escaped hanging by the Bulgarians. He de- scrbes in some detail the insurrec- tions in Serbia in April last the fate that they met, and unspeakable cruel ties visited upon the insurrectlonlsts 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 ad- dressed to his friend, Serbian cap tain serving with the Saloniki forces. The captain fell into captivity not long after receipt of the missive. but succeeded in smuggling it out by means of a Serbian sentry.
 The letter frankly advises all Ser bians to kill themselves rather than submit to capture; it tells of the fore ible deportation of thousands of chil- dren to Constantinople; of the fright full tortures inflicted upon prisoners before they are executed by the Bull garians, such as hanging by the ton que; of gibbets erected everywhere to dispose of Serbian prisoners of war, especially of insurrectionists.
 The names of both sender and re- cipent have been suppressed for ob- vious reasons, but both are on file with the original of the letter, which runs as follows:
 "Here l am in a mountain which is, actually, my sad residence. I escaped on April 25, from the Bulgarian prison where 1 was incarcerated with twenty comrades after having been surround ed and captured in the revolt near
 There had been 25,000 of su insurgents; we had moreover fought with a German division that defeated us and drove us to flight Then we had been attacked by two Bull garian divisions armed with cannon and machine guns. l was taken, put in prison and condemned to be hang, ed, but, during the night, my friend arrived with band in Pro- kouplie, killed the sentincls and res cued me. In consequence l was able to reach the mountain. There are more C1l1u C,OOO OU uo lllouI SCAco. ANCeSA y ot of the other mountains arc filled with insurgents.
 "Thc Bulgarians had summoned all the malc population between the ages of 16 and 65, in order to incorporate them in the army and send them i'm mediately to the front. At the same time they had gathered together all the young people between 13 and 1e and had sent them to Constantinople It was this vandal process of these !! monstrous Mongols that provoked the revolt. The unfortunate mothers; ex- aspcsated by the cries of their children as they were carried off by force, at tackled the Bulgarians with stones 1 This wass 9 genuine revolt, to which the Bulgarians replied with gibbets tc which thcv hanged women and chil- dren. Finally the people. exhausted and revolting, threw themselves upor tho Bulgarian depcts. Men and wo- men carried off arms and ammunition first to Prokouplie, then to Leskovatz Leblanc. Vrania. Vlassotintze, Fay etcher, Kniagevatz, Pojarevatz and the villages.
 "It was agreed that the insurgents of Zayetcher and it's suburbs shoulc march on Nish, that the rest of us from Prokcuplie. Lcskovatz and VT. anic should do the same and, reunit. cd, should take possession of the city
 Unfortunately those from Zayetchel
 waro 1a4e. yue ont ahead of them anf