THE WAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3569, 2 October 1916, Page 5

THE WAR.

TO-DAYS NEWS.

'A' TALK OF HORItOIt

MASSACRE OF ROUMANIANS

A'BULGAR-GERMAN COMPETITION

WOMEN AND CHILDREN JOIN THE "REVEL."

(Received Octeber 2, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, Octeber 1. .

Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Bucharest correspondent states:—lt is more than probablo that when all the horrors perpetrated by tho Bulgarians and Germans at Turfcakai aro officially confirmed, they will rival auything yet recorded in Balkan warfare. , It was a. competition between the two allies as to which could inflict the 'iriost.atorture,. •■ The Germans usually; diid; tmngs systematically, putting -the Roumanian, pil isonirs in • batches' ■ and I shooting them: in the market-place-or squares. - ! . A' regular -massacre of- the Roumanian civil population was organised, Bulgarian soldiery, aided by' Bulgarian in- \ habitants, going from street to sweet 1 killing, maiming, and torturing. Somo of those who escaped, narrate that among the Bulgarian participators were well-dressed women and young men in light suits, the women inciting the children to share in the revel. Knives and hatchets were employed, and tho women even used their teeth.

There is in tho .Bucharest Hospital to-day, a raving lunatic, a laxly of good Roumanian family and tho wife of a judge. Hearing that the Roumanians were being massacred, slio rushed to tho tribunal to save her husband, but arrived just' in time to see a hatchet descend pn his head and cleave his body nearly in half. Some Roumanian officers found and recognised hoi- and brought her to Bucharest. During the. previous fighting, Bulgarian .women and children followed tho lines, stabbing and , torturing tho wounded. Corpses were found with 20 arid 30 cuts. Dozens of Roumanian soldiers are in hospital who have been tortured similarly, after battlefield wounds, and more than one has boon shot in the back.. They state that many of the women were armed with rifles. A strict inquiry is proceeding, and an official report will be addressed to the Allies and neutrals.