The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-05-19
ICREEk REFUGEES
| TELL OF OUTRACES
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Colony Near Saloniki Victims Of:
Dire Atrocities IN last
Five Years.
TURKS AND BuLGlRS CRUEL
FercedGto Live In Open sstsidsSer N
Duosuts and. Driven. HlshsE and .
YoBt by. Enemy -kre t3SatAtui.
70, sunjes4 SAaAss.

a&f caiOuihi.s--AAiSuN RvA tue> AuAA VI XIV
busting Macedonian city III i pic
tiresaue settlement. wheres S,000
Greek refugees,S driven, from Aaia
Minor by thesnassacfe ofo10aA. nS&ks
their homes. Hundreds OF iothtf
Greeks who were nterned by the sBui:
gHrians IN Dobrudta during The war
have Joined thsn.- recently. Tho
houses In this refugee .camp weFe scone
structe by, the aDeektgor1sznmentsaA
space eauiyalent 10 II large New York
furnished room ID allotted to- i fama
iiy Of from Ave b, eight. q /
;$ The settlement has been giSeh the
pretentious name Of 1.-THE Quarter Of
the Trlumvirate' In honor Of Greece's
three greatynnodernr patSfpfse~-Premier
yenizelps, Admiral sKonntoufidtis sand
/ General sDanglais, srwhns rep,nliating
King Constantine espOussd tho Eause
iof the allies when Germany sought to
swin9ever the 0resks arnysss .5
Grateful u tinted states.
I Many Of the people have been
helped by the American Red Cross
ind speak gratefuf1y Of the United
statessands its people, Nc
4 As the Associated Press correspond.
ent was visiting 1the viiIases itwossox
carts loaded with Greek, 1sfugees who
shad, been drivens,by the Turks from
the villages along the sea Of Marmora
hin 1913 and 1914. and who. during the
present war, were expelled from Mace.
donia by the Rulsars. made their way
slowly up the steep mountain @road.
The refugees had Just come from,
Dobrudja. to the south OF Houmania.
where they Were practically e1iled by
|; the Bulgars. They had been nearly
two monthsaen the way and virtually
all the food ands4aid they gotsica,ne
from the American Red Cross, which
has relief posts along the line leading
from Bulgaria into Macedonia. Many
We're little tots from one to Ave years
old The wonder was how these lit.
tie ones, sickly and undernonrished.
were able to survive the long trip by
train. motortruck andsox cart. ~
The faces Of these returning fefu-
gees wore an inexpressibly sud and
harrassed look AZ For I'VE. years theI
were driven hither and yon by Turk
and Bulgai. and had never known
what 1t was during that time 10 have
q roof and shelter Under t6Hlgars
they were forced to live IN tfie open
fields or I'm ydugoutss or stables. Eight
cen hours a day at hard labor under
constant intimidation was the lot Of
some Of them. Three-hfths; Of q
pound OF black bread d day was'the
pftiful recomrense they received frofa
the Rulgars. Often those too weak 10
work were beaten by their ruthless
masters. ~. H. + \
One refugee declared to the CORE.
spondent that at oneTtime there were
More than sixty tieaths q day amOrg
the refugee colony in Dobridja from
malnutrition. exhaustion and expos
ure. In. certain csectiouss he said. the
Greeks were forced to live largely OF,
the rintls Of watermslenA which the
Bulgarian soldiers threw in the
streets. - NJ
Tell Bitter Experiences.
The older residents CT this refugee
suburb" Of Salonigi. most Of whom
had fed from different parts Of Asia
Minor during the wholesale massacres
there In 1914. have bitter experiences
TO relate about theiF- treatment-by the
Turks Some of these peopfe iivedsin
the, city of Phocis. where the whole
Christian population either had been
driven out or were killed by the Turks.
| The women. wept as they told about
the cutrages Of the Moslems. The
worst story was triiat atcidIby an intel
ligent peasantaiwemsn, who declared
that III butcherslop @opposite her
home = In Phocis she saw the Turks
take . young girl who was. considered
the most attractive in,s town and cut
sher bodydnto pieoesa~ Thew hungaths
!spfeces on meat frookstGanfita offered
them for publesale, ashe saads Show
fine Turks contempt toro Greek Chris
tians. ).
What most impfesses The eve Of the
visitor sin speaking with these -unfor.
fstunats speople lsstheiFrsaa wan and
furfewedls faeesss They ,siTavasa been
DRIVER, about by the ainsaatnef ri Zoe
runtir: they, flnrs. reached thesa point. AZ
/ a,ntsf. Of desnais and distraction.