"CRUCIFIED."
THE BALKAN' ATROCITIES.
UXSPEAKA DUE MUTILATTOXS
[By Electric Telegraphy-Copyright] [United Press Association.]
Athens, July 21
Commander Cardale, a British naval officer, visited Doxato and sjtw bands of dogs feeding on human remains. Ho counted six hundred bodies, mostly those of women and children,<, lying unburied in the streets. He saw 121) massacred women and children in one courtyard, unspeakably mutilated. The walls were spattered with blood tb a height of six feet. The victims Had not been killed at once, but were slowly done to death with bayonet thrusts. Commander Cardale was shown a room where a woman and a child had been crucified on a wall.
ROUMAXIA AXD TURKEY. (Received 10.10 a.m.) Bucharest, July 24. The King of Roumania telegraphed to the Sultan of Turkey urging the in-expediency of a Turkish advance.
ANOTHER STORY BUDGET. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Sofia, July 24. Roumania has agreed not to interfere with the ; Northern Bulgarian
railway or telegraphs, and will repair the railway.
Thracian refugees bring stories of Turkish excesses. The inhabitants of the border towns are alarmed and are fleeing inland. Many of the Bulgarian villages near Upsaia were burned, while the inhabitants of an important village in BuJgaiken were massacred. Athens, July 24.
Sixty Bulgarian irregulars who arrived northward from Lake Ostrove attempted, on the 16th, to blow up a Liam conveying Premier Venezelos from Salonika to Monaster.
(Received 1.0 p.m.) London, July 24
There is an ominous report tnal the lurks are advancing on Piulippopolis.
it is understood that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has asked for the To uor s’ interven lion.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 68, 25 July 1913, Page 5
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