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A TERRIBLE STORY.

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

TURKS BUR-NED ALIVE

(Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 9. •

•Xho Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent vusited the districts westward of the Maritza river, which have been under Bulgarian occupa-' ixon since October, and declares that the crimes committed by Bulgarians there are worse than at Adrianople and Thrace. At Samana the bodies of eighty-one Turks, frightfully mutilated were taken to a well where they were thrown to die. Colonel Apostoloff, who was appointed Governor ©f Ortakeni, confiscated £37,000, being tho villagers' collective savings. He then resolved on the forcible conversion of the Turks. On the latter declining to accept an exarchist creed, they were shot or bayonetted, while the women and children were handed over to the soldiers. Hardly any females between the ages of seven and seventy escaped beinpf outraged.- After killing the majority of the men,' Apostoloff baptised the women and. children after making tho, v sign of the- cross; Twenty Mohammedans at" Dadehi, who" protested against conversion, were purned'alive. ~.■ ■■■-.,, - - ; '

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5

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167

A TERRIBLE STORY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5

A TERRIBLE STORY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5

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