A GHASTLY STORY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1851, 10 September 1913, Page 7

A GHASTLY STORY.

OF BULGAR ATROCITIES.

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS.

By Telflffrapl—Press Association— Copyright

(Reo. September 9, 11.40 p.m.)

London, September 9. The "Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent has visited the districts westward' of Maritza, which have been occupied by the Bulgarians since October. He declares that the Bulgarian crimos fclicro aro worso than at Adrianoplo, or Thraco. At Saniana the bodies of 81 Turks, frightfully mutilated, wore taken from a ivell, wliero tJiey had been thrown to die. Colonel Apostoloff, who was appointed Governor! of Ortakoi, confiscated £37.000 from tlhe villagers' collective savings, and 1 then resolved upon tho foroiblet conversion of the Turks, who, declining to accept the Exarchist creed, 'were shot and bayoneted, tho Women and children being handed over to the soldiers. Hardly any of tho femalesbetween the ages of seven and soventy wore not outraged l . After killing tho majority of the men, Apostoloff baptised tho women and children, making the sign of tho cross over theiri. Twenty Mohammedans who protested against their conversion were burned alive.