The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-28
FOES TORTURED
SERBS TO REVEAL
HIDDEN SAVINGS
Commission Submits Report
of E!ideous Crimes Com
mitted by Bulgars.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The in
ternational commission of inquiry to
investigated the crimes committed by
the BulGars upon the Serbian popula-
ton during the war has submitted
several reports to the Belgrade gov
eminent concerning the rule of terror
and the determination of the Serbian
people in Macedonia and Moravia dis
trfcts during the Bulgarian occupa-
ton.
Dispositions of inhabitants, describ-
ing the horrors of the Bulgarian rule,
and numerous Bulgarian official docu-
ments discovered by the commission,
establish that in the majority of cases
these crimes were committed in ac-
cordance with the superior orders of
the Bulgarian authorities.
DR.. Voyslav NJ: Yovanovitch, direc-
tor of the official information bureau
of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes in Washington, has re-
ceiyed from his government the fol-
lowing extracts from the above men,
toned reports:
Killed All influential Serbs.
The Bulgarian invasion Of Serbia,
tricts, was accompanied by the most
barbarous acts committed in this war,
unsurpassed by the excuses of any
other enemy army. AS they passed
through the villages the Bulgars put
TO death all influential Serbs, nor did
they spare either their wives or their
children. The villages of Macedonia
were the greatest sufferers.
There is not a family in Bogumil,
Tetova, Bistritza and Kraynovatz
which has not several membres killed
by Bulgarian soldiery Widely rami-
fled families were reduced 20 two or
three survivors after the massacres
organized by the Bulgars One peas
ant of Bogumil who escaped the mass
acre owing TO his absence at the time
when the Bulgars arrived. lost his
wife, daughter and daughter-in-law,
who were killed. .
Another peasant reports that the
Bulgars killed his father, aged so, his
younger brother and his sister with
her three children, the eldest being
years of age. A third peasant of the
same village reports that the Bulgars
killed his wife and son, two daughters
in-law and two grandsons.
Men Tortured for Money
Men were first tortured to make
them give up their money. They We're
told that their lives would be spared
if they gave all they had. But when
they had given up everything they
were killed. The women were all first
outraged and then murdered and in
many cases mothers were outraged
before their daughters, and daughters
before their mothers. The best proof
of the refinement of cruelty to which
the Bulgars proceeded is, that they |
would not even permit families to |
bury their murdered and martyred re- |
lations.
In Bogumil the Bulgars placed ma
chine guns in the villages and fired
at the houses. The terrified inhabi-
tants endeavored to escape by the
road to Prilep, but in the village of
Kostolitch they fell in with a detach-
ment of Bulgarian officers and men
and were killed.
There is not town or village il /
Macedonia where the Bulgars have !
not inflicted corporal punishment upon /
women; but nowhere are the victims |
more numerous and nowhere have /
they been beaten more brutally than
at Kumanovo. A schoolmaster's wife /
was beaten three times, each time re |
ceiving % blows with stick. On the .
third occasion she was also violated /
All this took place in the town jail. !
The wife of tradesman was also |
beaten three times. Another Serbian |
woman was beaten until she became |
A Bulgarian doctor ex-
amined her and pronounced her to be |
eft for further corporal punishment"
and the Bulgarian authorities had her
beaten again.