TERRIBLE TALE OF WOE.
HiALiF A TOWN BUBME3).
rMLiJBSTANTS IN AiWPUIi PLJGHT.
PESTIILEOSrcIEi AND DISEASE ABIROAD.
SOFIA, December .5. Kileibjiaai, an Armenian doctor, escaped from Ada-ianopl©. He states slhells started a-fir© ait. night among wooden Turkish house® dry with age and half the town was burned i No houses were availaible, and the' inihiaibitante, niiad* witih terror, made a. rush to tlhe military quarter. The gaiTison w the hope of quelling the riots fired a, volley at themi. ' Eighty thousand! inhabitants are in a tcmble plight. They, are ulsing the woodwodc of houses to codk food. The air is polluted. Bodies of men, woman, hoi*ses;, dogs' ond otheiv dead aaimalEi a.re being'thrown into the swollen Ma^ritza. . Pestilence is certain, when tee flood reoedies.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 6 December 1912, Page 5
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123TERRIBLE TALE OF WOE. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 6 December 1912, Page 5
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