ANOTHER BALKAN INCIDENT

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 5

ANOTHER BALKAN INCIDENT

INVESTIGATED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS MASSACRE OF BULGARIAN PEASANTS SEP lOUS DE \ T E I .OPMF.NTS POSSIBLE By Electric Cable —Copyright. (Aust. an£ N.Z. Cable Association. ) Sofia, Aug. 19. Serious developments in the Balkans are possible sis the result of the inquiry conducted by a Commission appointed.by the League of Nations into the fieaths of 17 Bulgarian peasants, which occurred on July 26, when a Greek. Lieut. Doxiakis, arrested '27 Bulgarian;; after the explosion,of a bomb in the small village of Tarlis, on the Creek side of the Open-Bulgarian border. Lieut. Doxiakis took the captives to the mountains, and subsequently reported that Bulgarian irregulars had attacked his escort, and under cover of the attack the captives had tried to escape. They fired, killing seventeen, and the others escaped.

The, l.c-igne of Nations Commission, after consulting Greek, Bulgarian, English and Belgian witnesses, unanimously report that there was no attack whatever, and consequently the captives wore merely massacred.