BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14759, 1 September 1913, Page 7

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.

BRITISH TESTIMONY. (raoii ouit own correspondent). LONDON, July 25.' Commander Cardale, ono of tho British naval officers lent to the Greek Government for instructional and training purposes, happened to be at Kavala When tho news came through of tho horrors committed by tho Bulgarian troops at Doxato. The Commander left immediately for that placo, and he has given the Athons correspondent of tho "Duily Telegraph" a description of what he saw. At the entrance of the town the first things that met his gazo wero bands of dogs feeding on human remains. The burnt town appeared to be deserted, and a great deal of shouting had to be resorted to before somo women issued from the ruins. In ono courtyard about 120 women and children were massacred. Tho bodies of thirty of them were still there when Commander Cardalo visited the place. All tho bodies had bayonet thrusts and boro marks of unspeakable mutilations. The walls wero spattered with blood to a height of six feet from the ground, -and ho accounts for this by tho narrative given him by the surviving inhabitants, who say tliat tho victims were not dono to death at once, but wero slowly brought to their end by bayonet thrusts. Into the courtyard of a rich Turk's house a similar fleck of women and children wero driven for slaughter by tho Bulgarians, bub before they had timo to despatch them all some broke through the cordon of soldiers placed at the entrance and ran upstairs into tho house of tho Turk, seeking refuge under the carpets and divans of the place. Commander Cardale found the cushions and carpets slashed by sword cuts and tho walls reeking with human blood and hacked remains. In another room .he was shown the placo, still bespattered with blood, where a woman and her child had been crucified on tho wall. The impressions that tho bodies had leftwas plainly visible, as wero also the holes left by tho nails driven through tho outstretched hands and feet of the victims. Throughout the town he personally counted GOO bodies still left unburied, mostly of women and children. Ho verified the following story, showing how the precepts of Christianity aro understood by the so-called Christian Bulgarians. Thirty Greeks and one Turk sought refuge in tho sanctuary of a Greek Church while the massacres were going on outside. A squad of Bulgarian soldiers entered tho church. To the Greeks they said that if they had found them outside they would have killed them all, hot, as they were Christians in a Christian church, they would spare their lives. But as to tho Turk, he must die, and, suiting tho action to tho word, they killed the Moslem ou the steps of the altar.