HORRIBLE ATROCITIES AT RODOSTO.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13568, 8 November 1912, Page 5

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES AT RODOSTO.

LAWLESSNESS AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

TWENTY WARSHIPS ARRIVING

(Received Nov 7, 10.10 p.m.) London, Nov 7. Tho "Chronicle's" Constantinople correspondent reports that bands. of famished Nizzami from Lulo 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 aro unnerving Constantinople, where tho arrival of foreign warships has increased the Moslem exasperation.

There havo been numerous murders of Greeks and Jews. Thirty-six Greeks who were unloading a steamer were killed.-

Tho authorities aro striving to repress the disorders. Many European women and children are embarking on steamers, and English residents are stocking their houses to withstand a siege..

Twenty warships belonging to the various Powers aro hasteneing to the Bosphorus.