WAR'S DARKER SIDE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1835, 22 August 1913, Page 7

WAR'S DARKER SIDE

BULGAR ATKOCITIES, CONFIRMED BY RUSSIAN INQUIRY. WHEN ADRIANOPLE FELL. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Bukarest, August 20. King Peter of Sevvia and King Constantino of Greece havo.ratifittl the Buckarcst Peace Treat}-. Constantinople, August 20. In connection with the exchange of Greek and Turkish prisoners it is impossible to approximate tho number of Turkish captives. The. Greeks state that several thousands of tlieiir prisoners died during internment. No cause' is given, but tho deaths were possibly duo to cholera. It is supposed there wore also escapes. (Itec. August 21, 11.15 p.m.) London, August 21. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent at Constantinople has obtained a copy of the report of the Russian Government official, who was specially commissioned'to investigate the Bulgarian atrocities. His roport bears out the fragmentary tales of horror whioh havo previously been published. WTicn Adrianople fell, he states, tho mosques and private houses were despoiled ruthlessly, and cartloads of so-called ■war booty were sent to Sofia. Numbers of corpses of Mussulmans, who had been killed during the night, woro fojind every morning. Even now, coTpses of Turkish prisoners, covered with wounds, are being found in public wells. While 200 prisoners who .were being convey cd to Mustapha Pasha (17 miles from Adrianople), ill, sick, wounded, and unable to march, they were killed. One group of sixty, who were set free, had hardly gone a dozen paces when the Bulgarians fired, killing fifty.