HORRIBLE DETALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 92, 22 August 1913, Page 5

HORRIBLE DETALS.

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. COMMISSIONEIIS KEI’OHT. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, August 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Constantinople correspondent lias obtained a copy of the report of the Russian Government’s official specially commissioned to investigate the Bulgarian atrocities. The report hears out the fragmentary tales of horror previously published. When Adr-ianoplo fell, mosques and private houses were despoiled ruthlessly. Cart loads of so-called war booty were sent to Sofia. Numbers or corpses of Musslemans killed during the night wore found every morning. Even now tiie corpses of Turkish prisoners covered with wounds are found in public wells. While 2UU prisoners were being conveyed to Mustapha Pasha, the ill, sick and wounded unable to march were killed. One group of 60 prisoners se free,had hardly gone a dozen paces when the Bulgarians lired, and 50 were’killed. TOO AWFUL FOR WORDS. A SHARP CONTRAST. (Received 8.25 a.m.) London, August 21. The report continues: “What the women of Adrianople suffered passes all imagination. Greek, Jewish, and Turkish women were violated. Xeither social position nor age were respected. The details were so terrible that it is impossible to print them. In is sufficient to say.that the enormities practiced equal, where they do not surpass, anything written in history.” When General Veltcheff’s attention was called to the report, he replied: “One should not deprive the poor soldiers of innocent amusements.” The French and Russian Consuls, alarmed at the Bulgarians’ open menances intervened, and saved many lives. The conduct of Servians was a sharp contrast to the brutality of the Bulgarians. The former treated the inhabitants courteously. The Turks return was welcomed, and complete order has boon maintained since their arrival.

ESCAPE FROM SHELL.” In a further report, a story is given by two Turkish prisoners from Stara/.agora. On March 13, they relate, we were sent to Bulgaria in thousands. All the laggards and the sick and wounded were pitilessly bayonettod on arrival at Haskovo and barely live hundred were left. At Starazagora 6000 prisoners wore coralled within a barbed wire enclosure, when suddenly a battalion of Bulgarians opened fire on the prisoners, who were killed and wounded on masse. The Servians hurled themselves against the barbed wire. The bodies, of the victims who fell close to the fence enabled some to climb over, and about 100 escaped this hell. A party of horsemen sabred many of the fugitives. The rest reached the foroset and escaped. EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS, (Received 8.25 a.m.) Loudon, August 21. Router states that Turkish official '■i roles believe the Powers are. unwilling to give a ■ mandate to any singh power to take forcible action against Turkey in view of the European coin plication- that might arise. St. Petersburg, August 21.

The tension between Russia and Turkey is increasing. The press make hitter attacks upon .Turkey and Greece. AFRAID OF THE BULGARIANS. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Salonika, August 21. Learning that the town of Melanikon will fall to the Bulgarians, the inhabitants are abandoning it, destroying vineyards, breaking wine vats and firing the town. Owing to a iopart that the Bulgarians are re-occupying Dedeagateb, the inhabitants b»jke into panic, and many .re quitlina • l>« place.