BRUTAL BULGARIANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 10 September 1913, Page 5

BRUTAL BULGARIANS.

A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]

I Unitf.p Press Association. 1

London, September 9

The Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent visited districts westward of the Maritza, where the Bulgarians have been in occupation since October. He declares that the Bulgarian crimes there are worse than at Adrianople or Tharce.

At Samana the bodies of 81 Turks, frightfully mutilated, were taken from a well, where they were thrown to di'e.

Colonel Apostoloff was appointed Governor of Ortakeni, and he confiscated £87,000 sterling cf the villagers' collective savings. He then resolved upon forcible conversion. Those of the Turks declining to accept the Bui-, garian creed were shot and bayonetted, whilst women and children were handed over to the soldiers. Hardly any feniles between the ages of seven and seventy were not outraged. After killing a,majority of the men, Colonel Apostoloff baptised the women and children, making the sign of the Cross. Twenty Mohammedans at Dadehi protested against conversion and were ' burned alive.

EUROPE'S SOUL FOR SALE

FOR OTTOMAN BACKSHEESH.. [iiY Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Sun Special Cables. London, September 9.

The Times' Constantinople correspondent says that if the foreign Ministers of the great Powers would travel incognito through the Near East they might find Europe as a colelctive entity utterly discredited from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. Every intelligent Oriental knows that each great Power is ready to sell its European soul for Ottoman backsheesh.'