A BULGARIAN BOAST
On July Ist the Bulgarians openly boasted of their plans to attack the Greeks the next day and reach Salonika in a few hours. On July 4th the Bulgarian troops streamed through Seres fror.i the battle of KochaTia, a hopelessly ; demoralised rabble. | Tho Greeks failed to appear at Seres and the Bulgarians returned on the 10th. Soon the whole town was in flames and' tho streets covered with mangled oorpsea._ j When the Bulgarians forced the Austrian Consul' &> leave his house, two hundred refugees, mostly -women and children, were marched off towards the mountains, their cantors threatening to inassacre > them. H. Professor amongst the captives challenged the Bulgarians with Austrian vengeance, and eventually j the Bulgars were prevailed upon to accept ransom.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 22 July 1913, Page 5
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