Two Servian officers have arrived «t Sofit from "Rgri Palahka and Kiimnnovo. They report hideous atrocities bv the retreating Turks. The roads, the? say, were strewn with the corpses of Christian peasants. In many cases the bodies, even of women and «hiltlren, were mutilated, and bore evidence of torture. Charred corpses were found, indicating that the victims had been t'.ed to"trees and burnt alive, or implied and then roasted. The majority of the villages wore burnt. In some cases the heads of those decapitated were laid in rows before the doors of houses. The testimony of these officers has •been taken before the Servian Minister, and forwarded to tho Belgrade Government.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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111Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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