"GIBBERED LIKE APES"
SUFFERINGS OF SERBIANS.
Afl officer in the British Army who was taken prisoner by tho Bulgars aird interned in Bulgaria has furnished the Serbian Consul in Salonika with information concerning outages on their Serbian, prisoners. "In September I arrived in the George Panildiarevo, irtiero the _ very worst samples of modern barbarism occurred during tho first week of my stay. We saw twenty-seven Serbian soldiers and interned civilians) flogged, by order of Lioutenant Samardjiev. They veto flogged before the Bulgarian battalion becauso three of their comrades . had cseaped. Their: flesh looked liko raw meat. Throughout the winter there wns no fire in the barracks, and many died of cold. All those men were either sick or crippled and maimed men, who wero unable to work. Still, the Bulgars made them work by the help of blows with a stick. "I was once inside the' Fifth Barrack, and there I saw a spi?etaelq that no< artist could paint and no writer describe. Tho' Sorbs had nearly all gone mad with sickness and starvation. They gibbered like apes. Tho spectacle was bo horrible that, although I am a, modieat student, and accustomed to disgusting sights, 1 had to come out after 20 minutes of it.
"Later on, in t)he beginning of April, more interned persons were brought from Serbia. About 4000 of them came to the camps, and it was there that nameless atrocities began in earnest. The Bulgars confined 650 persons in. barracks 30 metres long by 10 metres wide. All day long you heard the sound of blows of sticks, frequently given in the face. During tlio night tlio Bulgers would five at the prisoners. In the month of Jluy the camp had become nothing less than a typhus hospital, with doe-tow, it is (rue. but, as if by accident, deprived of all , drugs and primary necessaries for tlie sick. T. should need a thousand pages Iμ relate all the atrocities-so many did J witness."
A Reason for It.—Motorist (blocked by loud of hay): "T say, there, pull out and let me by. You sewt'A in a hurry to let that other fellow's carriage got past." Farmer: "That's 'cause his horso wuz eatin' my hay. There hain't no danger o , yew eatin' it, I reckon."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 154, 25 March 1919, Page 7
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