"MASSACRE, OUTRAGE, & PILLAGE
IN THE TOWN OF RODOSTO
DISORDERS IN THE CAPITAL.
MURDER OF GREEKS AND JEWS
LONDON, Nov. 7,
The "Chronicle's" Constantinople correspondent reports that bands of famished Nizzami from Lule Burgas converted Rodosto into a scene of massacre, outrage, and pillage. The town was fired at seven points, and children were thrown into the flames.
The happenings at RodostO' are unnerving Constantinople, where the arrival of foreign warships has increased the Moslem exasperation. There have been numerous murders of Greeks and Jews. Thirty-ssix Greeks who were unloading a steamer were killed. The authorities are striving to repress the disorders. Many European women and children are embarking on steamers, and English residents are stocking their houses to withstand a siego. Twenty warships belonging to the various "powers are hastening to the Bosphorus.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 8 November 1912, Page 5
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