BALKAN STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17949, 16 November 1918, Page 7

BALKAN STATES.

BT7LGAR ATROCITIES. A TERRIBLE STORY. LONDON, November 13. Mr Ward Price, telegraphing from Vranja, fully verified the statement that Bulgars tool; 3000 men from towns and villages in the Vranja region alone. They were divided into detachments of fifty parties, and taken nightly,' between December, 1915, and March, 1916, to an appointed slaughterhouse, where their throats were cut, or they were stabbed to death. "I saw the bones and graves of 2500 victims at Surdrlitza," ho says, " their only crime being that they were Serbians. After a night of slaughter the village dogs often brought into the streets human limbs, and even heads torn from murdered Serbs. The entire population of the hamlet of TJshertse, numbering 120 men, women and children, were killed in one day. Innocent peasants, elsewhere, were stripped naked and tied down on braziers, and roasted by slow fires, to make them confess that they possessed hidden arms."