THE BALKANS
MASSACRE OF BULGARIANS. SERIOUS TROUBLE EXPECTED. 81 CABLl—mass ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT SOFIA, Aug. 19. Serious developments in the Balkans are possible as the result of a inquiry conducted by a commission appointed by the League of Nations into the deaths of seventeen Bulgarian peasants, which occurred on July 20, when a Greek lieutenant, Doxakis, arrested twenty-seven Bulgarians after an explosion of a bomb in the small village of Tarlis, on the Greek side of the Greco-Bulgarian border. Doxakis took the captives to the mountains, and it was subsequently reported that Bulgarian irregulars attacked his escort. Under cover of the attack the captives tried to escape, but the escort fired, killing seventeen. The others escaped. ' The League of Nations commission, consisting of a Greek, a Bulgarian, an Englishman, and a Belgian, unanimously reported that there was no attack whatever, and consequently the captives were merely massacred.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 August 1924, Page 5
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