STARVING PEOPLE.
HORRIBLE CRIMES TO OBTAIN '
FOQD.
PARIS, January 7: "The reports of the fearful conditions of -misery and want existing among' the people m the regions devastated by the Balkan war 'are not exaggerated,'* said Mr ' Siccilianoe, first secretary of the Greek Legation, yesterday. > "Especially are they true as regards the regions annexed to Bulgaria and Servia. I'am*glad to say we have been able to Telieve the distress among ouu own annexed population, although 'more could be done than we are doing. "Generosity has • been manifested m our behalf m Epirus, where/ through the agency of the missionaries, much relief was administered some mouths ago. "The great bulk of the people of Bulgarian blood who are m misery ate m the new Servian -territory, .where th« annexed population, numbers about 400,000, a majority of whom are homeless. . "On the other hand, m old Bulgaria, great numbers are near starvation. Statements come from the country of horrible atrocities . committed to obtain food, even of the*; most revolting kind, but I feel not the 'slightest hesitation m believing them. "Servia is doing her best to relieve her 400,000 annexed citizens, but he? r«s<nurc§B ore limited."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLL, Issue 13305, 14 February 1914, Page 9
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