AFTER THE WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5

AFTER THE WAR.

JCINO FERDINANP IN MOURNING HEADS PROCESSION OF TROOPS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SOFIA, August 16. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, crowned with a wreath of leaves, headed the Sofia division of troops, and marched in procession to the city from the front. BULGARIANS EXECUTED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SAOLNIKA, August 16. Six Bulgarian soldiers who were identified as having participated in the Doxato massacres, were courtmatialled and executed over the graces of their victims.

AFTER" EVACUATION OF SERES. STORY OF "TREACHERY. (Received August 16, 8.5 a.m.) SOFIA, August 15. It is semi-oflicially stated that after the Bulgarian troops had evacuated' Seres the Greek inhabitants, under the Archbishop, formed a local mili- | tia, which pillaged Mussulmans, Jews I and Bulgarians, including a number of women,and children, -were imprisoned. -Subsequently, on .the arrival of the Greek troops, the Archbishop and reassured the prisoners. Then civilians and soldiers entered the prison and perpetrated a massacre. Only one man, a Bulgarian, escaped. The Greeks firedl the building, then the mutilated corpses, exhibiting the photographs .to the Consuls as those of the corpses of Greeks massacred by the Bulgarians. A similar ruse was adopted at iMenelik, where Greek soldiers killed and mutilated a Bulgarian.priest, exhibiting it as the corpse, of , %he Greek Bishop of Doiran, who was at the the time in a Bulgarian monastery. GRATIFICATION EXPRESSED. (Received August 16, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. , The Speech from the Throne at the prorogation of Parliament expressed satisfactoinat the Bucharest ; Treaty and gratification tJHat the <i?dwers were inconcert; Sit- • . - '••*•' - •