BALKAN HORRORS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1838, 26 August 1913, Page 5

BALKAN HORRORS.

TERRIBLE ATROCITIES. WHAT PIERRE LOTI SAW IN THRACE. ! THE UNSPEAKABLE BULGAR. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Reo. August 25, 11.20 p.m.) London, August 25. Pierre Loti (Captain Viaud), tho famous French author and traveller and a member of the Academy, in a telegram to the "Daily Telegraph," declares that the Bulgarians are making Thrace a desert, and are surpassing in, abomination everything that can bo told or imagined. The village of Haouza, tho case of which may be regarded as typical of hundreds of is now a heap of ruins. Tlie Turkish prisoners and wounded there were compelled] to smash tho soulpturod marbles in the' mosques with sledge-hammers while tho Bulgarians harassed them with bayonets. Evory column in tho cemetery was broken and the dead exposed. The Bulgarians amused themselves by defiling soattored bones and casting tho violated bodies. of women ami children into a well. Only forty out of a thousand inhabitants were not massacred.

The last night of tho Bulgarian occupation of Adriaiiople' was terrible. Greeks were tied four and) four ana thrown into the river. Tho Bulgarians piled loot <xn to carts about to start at daybreak, but were interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the Turks. Before quitting, the Bulgarians threw into the wells a few of the last prisoners. They returned to capture Rechid Bey Fuad's son, and toro both his oyes from tho orbits and severed his aims. Four thousand Turldsfli prisoners were herded on an island in the river in order that they might die of hunger. Tho writer says ho sa.w trees despoiledl of their hark which the famished prisoners jnad devoured'. The Bulgarians a fortnight after this torture cut the throats of those still alive. BOYCOTT COLDLY VIEWED. ■ Paris, August 24. According to diplomats, the chances of Turkey retaining Adrian'oplo appear to be growing daily. Tho prospects of agreement on a financial boycott cro not promising; French investors, who have to bear tho brunt, have already made great sacrifices in deference to Russia's political views, and are unwilling to do more.

BULGARS ATTACK TURKS. Constantinople, August 24. Bulgarians attacked the Turks at Ortakeuy, but were repulsed. One hundred and twenty-four Bulgarians wore taken, prisoner. RUSSIA AND THE ATROCITIES. St. Petersburg, August 24. It is semi-officially stated that the author of the "Daily'Telegraph's'' story of Bulgarian atrocities is an ox-o(Rcial of Consular service, and now a newspaper correspondent. Ho was not entrusted with any investigation,' on bohalf of Russia. STORIES DISCREDITED. London, August 24. The secretary of the Bible Lands Missions Society, and Mr. Woodruff, an American missionary at Pliiloppopolis, both of whom rendored aid to tho wounded at Adrianople, have visited tho Foreign Office and protested against and refuted tho stories of Bulgarian atrocities.