THE ATROCITIES IN ROUMELIA.

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 3 September 1878, Page 3

THE ATROCITIES IN ROUMELIA.

' " tThtf Times'" cb'rtspondenly 'wViting froni . 1 "CoDStsntinoille on'Bth July, ksfT L , Consul-General Fawcett returned this morn1 iiig from Lagos,. and brings « repdrt of the. in- ; 11 .* 'tense sufferings of tbe rffueees and population ¦'¦ 'In l ho" districts 'south of the Khodope ll^un- r . tains. The supplies Mr. Fawcett itook with' • '"hlmwere only a drop ia .taeooehn-of starva- ” tion and misery prevailing in that region,. • In «ne instance tbe Kaimakan sold for Tns v , own benefic tho corn intended ibr the • "'Wlief of .the poor. Mr. Fawcett's report , proceeds to enumerate the horrbrg perj^-j. , > trkttd hy the Bulgarians 'and Cossacks, ana . ' soirietimet even by the regular -Russia^ , soldiers, upon the defenceless-population. The evident design of these^malefactors seems to be. - >' the ' extermination or utter dispersion of the and of Christians favorable to them. In the Doraodea District alone, fifty ? 6 , '•^tbreaf^villages wrire plundered and buru^by, „ Russian and Bulgarian troops within the ' ; last' two Triooths. Twenty' three villages have -been" 'equally laid waste and bar*' in the ' district of Haskiev. and4n the 1 Philippppplls ' Dittrict' twelve milages fwereqburnt tni , flni ! numerous tillag^i namnd in the -report there ¦'' lias 'b'en" ¦wanton- des.trn'cti6tt 'attended by ddeds of unheard "of- barbarity. The cases of' 'menf Bnd^ women being deliberately ' burnt alive are " frequent ; in one instance , ; an .old.-, woman was thrown alive into a i burning 'house " Violation of thi girls was .very frequgnt. , The report speaks of a girl who ' was tied' to tlie ground, hands and feet, and (Subjected to outrages till she died under their infliction. Jv othing more horrible : . i !; tfchan the- particulars of this ( report can be imagined, iis veracity rests on tbe official authority .of one, of the most respected among,; ' Her Majesty's servants and on that of men ii ..employed by him Upon, his conviction' 'of their perfect trustworthiness, s Mr. Fawcett intends to, lay. the report before the English^ 1 . Austrian, and French Ambassadors, with a *iew to move' those Powers ,to send out d'-fcom 1 -" " mission of Inquiry to the-spot,, and. endeavour to put an end to excesfes/ which disgrace > '¦"Kumanity/- >'¦'•" ¦ ; '••'• '