BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1917, Page 5

BALKANS.

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• ■ : —— BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS OP SERBIANS. OS&MAM9' BOBBING WHOLESALE. _ ■ : London, Sept. 30. 'A cowtspondent at Serbian headquarters gays that, the, Bulgara are methodically destroying the population of Serbia, insurgent Serbs, when taken prisoner r are 'lnfaiiably hanged, unless their com- . radea rescue them by storming the gaols, ■which bu. often occurred. Thcire are sbh*tt *t ever street corner and women «» hanged as well as men. Children

aggg 12 to 14 are sent to Constantinople. Qlathr have committed suicide en route J>y |nmping from the train. In several towns the Serbs rose, looting tne eh<)p» and securing weapons. Taey Were victorious till the Bulgars ,' ftoght the insurgents behind a ramof tiie latter's women and chilXste Bulgars ordered the Serbs to be , and inoculated them with yrfrioiu maladies. A town clerk was Jmng.Jby Ms tongue on Easter Sunday, ' and tortured horribly before he expired. The insurgents camp in the mountains, ,and the revolt is spreading from Serbia to Macedonia, and even to Bulgaria. ' The insurgents defeated Ger'ffiatt battalions and fought their way tfai from the regulars when surrounded, Diverting death to capture, which ends in a more cruel death. Their constant raids nd ambushes score off the trdops. Th* Germans are robbing wholesale, *fafcß,written promises of payment when *s% Peter returns. They are turning the severely wounded from the hospitals and sending their beds to Austria. The Bulgars have enrolled Serbian maleß of 17 to 65 in the Bulgarian army. ' Serbian mothers, moved by the lament- ' able cries of their children, in some towns attacked the soldiery with stones imtil gibbets were erected to hang the pothers. The Germans ravished even Turkish women within earshot of their husbands Wd fathers, till the Turks murdered several German officers. A Bulgarian doctor brained 24 Serbs With hi* own hand. ! Servian books have been destroyed ana ats and schoolmasters killed or . rted. The Sejrbs are forcibly inftructed in the Bulgarian tongue. A Servian officer, who was a prisoner, i - was ordered tol take a Serbian badge from his kepi. When he refused a 8u1... ... £ujan dentist stabbed the prisoner h,' through the rungs in the presence of his v 1 £scort, and the event went unpunished. The Bulgars are everywhere extorting \ iboney from the Serbs by threats of internment and deportation. Thes obtained 60,000 francs in a single village Mar Nish.