Horrors of War

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 206, 20 January 1913, Page 5

Horrors of War

WHOLESALE MASSACRES*. THE BUTCHERINC, SERVIANS. A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 19, 5.5 p.m. Vienna. January 18The Reiehpost publishes details of the alleged massacre of twenty-five thousand Turks and Albanians by the Servians since the outset of the war in the vilayet of Kossovo. The Reichpost's statement is entitled, '■Servia's Blood Guilt in Albania." It details that a hundred out of a hundred and thirty-two wounded Albanians at Uskub were allowed to die from starvation. The Servians admit that in a village where shots were fired after the •white flag had been used, the villagers. smoked out of their home*, came screaming and weaping. and were shot down, the adults hayonetted and women and girls above the age of twelve violated before the eyes of their fathers and husbands. The Servians slaughtered twelve bundled. Albanians at Ferisovitch, the entire population of Gillane. and five thousand at Pristina. The Servians at Prizrend entered the tomes of the inhabitants, slaying irrespective of age or sex, killing four hundred. They also destroyed three villages rear Prizrend, shooting thirty headmen because they were favorable to Austria. The soldiers bound Albanian women together, forced them to dance in rings, and then fired their rifles, watching them fall one by one. General Janovitch ordered the destruction of twenty-seven villages in the Ljnma district, where women and children were wrapped in straw and burnt alive. Four hundred men who surrendered were shot in batches of forty. THE POWERS' NOTE. TURKEY WARNED. WHAT SHE MAY EXPECT. : "r+«. \ ••. Received If l , 5.5 p.m. Paris, January 18. The Powers' Note draw 3 the attention of the Porte to the grave responsibility cast on her by resisting their ' counsels and presenting the re-establish-ment of peace. Turkey would only have itself to blame if the prolongation of • hostilities involved the question of the fate of Constantinople an 1 the extension of hostilities to Asiatic provinces. In such a contingency the Porte would be unable to count upon the Powers' efforts to preserve it from danger against which it had already been warned. If it would consent to the cession of Adria- ' nople and leave the question of the Aegean Islands to the Powers' decision, the Powers would endeavor to assure the safeguarding of Mussulman interests in Adrianople, and exclude all menace of Turkey's security in the settlement of the Aegean Islands. TURKEY'S ANSWER. Received 20, 1 a.m. London, January 18. Reuter's Constantinople correspondent says that the Porte's draft reply insists on the retention of Adrianople, and declines to surrender the Aegean Islands near the coast, but is ready to continue pourparlers regarding the more distant islands. Horadounghian Pasha informed Reuter's agent that the Government would not give way in regard to Adrianople. The Hamidieh, not the Merjidier, bombarded Syria. PROTESTING AGAINST MASSACRES. APPEAL TO BRITAIN. Received 19, 5.5 p.m. London, January IS. A number of Turkish Senators have memorialised King George and other sovereigns, protesting against the Balkan massacres. The Moslem League in London has addressed Sir Edward Grey. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, protesting against the massacres, and urging Britain not to press for the surrender of Adrianople. which was a holy sanctuary and the key to Constantinople. BULGARIA'S LOSSES. A BIG LIST. RAVAGES OF CHOLERA. Received 19, 5.5 p.m. Sofia, -lanuarv 18. The Bulgarian war losses are as follows: ' Men killed 21,018 Officers killed -284 Officers wounded 870 Men wounded 51.000 About 70 per cent, of the latter have recovered. Thirty-five thousand were stricken with cholera at Chataldja, and thirty thousand died. PROCHASKA INCIDENT ENDED. Vienna, January 17. Tlerr Procbaska hoisted tin- Austrian flag on the Consulate at Prizrend, and the Servian troops saluted it, thus terminating the incident. SERVIAN OFFICER RESIGNS. Belgrade. January 17. Colonel Boyovitcb. Ix'ad of the artillery branch of the General Staff, has resigned, owing to differences with tin headquarters staff on the question of promotions. General I'.ojanovieh succeeds him.