TALES OF MASSACRE.
BOTH SIDES BLAMED. SALONIKA, Dec. 2. Tho foreign attaches unstintedly 'praise tho Servian infantry, while the artillery is excellent and the envalry medioere. Macedonia is being drenched with the blood of innocents, owing to the withdrawal of the Bulgarian regulars to Thrace, leaving tho conquered territory at tho mercy of tho auxiliaries. There has been an enormous indiscriminate slaughter in the Ayrethissar district, where scarcely a Moslem is loft alive. Armenians who joined the Bulgarians were responsible for the Kavahi massacre, the leader of which revenged tho massacre of his family at Adaua. , '-Tho Servians have a' better record, while no massacres have been recorded against tho Greeks, who controlled the auxiliaries effectively. - STAItVING KEFUGEES. OOMSTANTINOPLE, D 2. Two thousand five hundred deserters a-iicl derelicts are clamouring for food and water. .Fifty die daily of cholera ana dysentery. ' SALONIKA, Dec. 2. Thirty thousand refugees from Macedonia are being succoured by Greeks.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14913, 4 December 1912, Page 7
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154TALES OF MASSACRE. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14913, 4 December 1912, Page 7
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