PERSECUTION OF GREEKS.

WOMEN AMD CHILDREN MASSACRED. (Received Last Night, 7.20 o'clock.) SOFIA, May 18: According to official report®, the persecution of Greeks in Eastern Thrace have been renewed with extreme vigor. Crowds of Greek peasants from Demotica have arrived at Dedeagatci, and thay report that their wives and children were! massacred. Others crossed the Marimza River in boats, with the Turks firing on them. Many were drowned.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. MANY PRISONERS BUTCHERED. (Received Last Night, 7.20 o'clock.) PARIS, May 18, The International Committee despatched to the Balkans by the Carnegie Fund declares that, although the Greek Bishops of Djiran, Kavalla, and Serres were erroneously reported to have been massacred, hundred® of villages were wantonly destroyed, and many civilian and military prisoners butchered. All the belligerents in the second war were guilty of "committing atrocities.