MASSACRE BY GREEKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 138, 10 June 1905, Page 13

MASSACRE BY GREEKS.

The following account of the massacre j of Bulgarians at Zagoritehani. in Mace- ! donia, is supplied by Reuters Agency:— 1 "Abuse of Bulgarians has for months ! past formed the staple of the Sunday ser- | ; inons of the highest Greek dignitaries in i ; the Mona*tir vilayet. One of them told a foreigner that he thought all Bulgarians I and all who sympathised with them richly ■ I deserved to die. "A few days before the massacre the •' Turkish authorities sent Zagoritchaui a | party of soldiers to reassure the villagers, ; aDd to rell them that they need not be alarmed if ever a party approached the ! village with sound of trumpet, as it would I jbe soldiers for their protection. At five I • o clock on the morning o£ Friday, April 7, I ! a tremper was heard outside the village. : '"A band of 3UO Greeks under three leaders in Greek military uniform had snr- ! rounded the village and at once began to j JUtack. The Greeks had everything their | ■ own way. and seem to have massacred iv- \ discriminate]}-, shooting, stabbing, hack- ' i ing-, and dynamitiug. Foreigners who visit- I ed the place found 62 unbtrried corpses of I villagers, including six women and two 1 children. The latter had been first bayo- i noted and then disembowelled. "Only six villagers were reported wonnd- ! cd. v proportion so small as to suggest ! thiit no quarter was given. The Greek ; band appears to have retired unmolested. carrying off some -jr, prisoners, of whose ' ! Hate nothing positive is known. ••The Procurator-General eg Monastir, who had visited Zagorltchani, has obtained j from the villagers the name of some 130 persons whom they recognised among their ; .assailants, many of whom belonged to neighbouring Patriarchist villages. -.