BALKAN ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7

BALKAN ATROCITIES

BULGARIAN RAID. WOMEN ANli CHILDREN KILLED. .BODIES BURNED. OT TELEGRAM—I'ItF.SS f.SSOCIATION—COrtUIOIII. (lice. Jan. 21, fl p.m.) Athens, January_2l. Bulgarian brigands attacked the Greek: villago of Dragosh, and killed cloven women and ten 'children. Their hodios wero burned. GRAECO-BULGAR)AN BLOODSHED. It is the same old story-.of raids iind reprisals. In the Fiorina district—tho. principal theatre of • the Graeco-Bulgarian' conflict—between April 1 and September 30, in a population of 44,000,, 135 persons met, with ;a.violent death, and 47 were .wounded; of the slain, 97 were Bulgarians, for tho' most; part killed.by Greeks. - Now the Bulgarians, 'who had- been comparatively inactive, have , lately inaugurated a campaign of reprisals oil a large, scale. The slate of affairs is stated; to. be ! worse than at liny previous period since the, Bulgarian insurrection of. 1903. .A band of SOO.'Bulgariahs fell upon the village of Negovani, inhabited by Patriarchist Albanians, who had harboured the Greek bands. Here they killed six men and burned eighteen Itouseßi in oiie df these, seven women had takon refuge, and were asphyxiated by the smoke' before they could escape. ; Latpr. the .Patriarchist Bulgarians of the.villago of Rakhova suffered the loss of five men killed and 93: houses burned. iU Aitos the Greeks killed eight Bulgarians, wounded four,. burned eighteen- -houses, and .destroyed fifty oxen! Then Bulgarian peasants ■fell on the villages of Polok and Jcgel, killing, three persons and'burning 23 houses.