PLIGHT OF THE BESIEGED.
NO FOOD OR LIGHTS. PANTO IN THE! TOWN. - SOLOMEiRiS FIRiEI ON! a MOB. SOFIA, December 6. Dr. Kalebjian, ail Armenian dobtor, who escaped from Adrianople, states that tihe shells started fires every merit in the wooden Turkish hourses, diry with age, and half thJa s town had been burnt. There were no fire hoses to extinguish the flamies. The inhabitants., mad with terror, rushed to the military quarter, where the garrison, in the hope' of ruellinig tihe riot®, fired, volleys inlto them. The 80.000 inhiaibitants are in a terrible plight, Ibeing wiithouti bread or lights. They a.re using the woodwork of their houses to cook their food. The air is pollufcedi, while bodies of men, women, horses, dogs, and other dead animals are thrown into the swollen" Maritza-. A pestilence! ia certain when the flood recedes.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 7 December 1912, Page 5
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140PLIGHT OF THE BESIEGED. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 7 December 1912, Page 5
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