BULGARIAN TORTURE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7566, 9 May 1919, Page 6

BULGARIAN TORTURE.

■ , ~ SERBIAN WOMAN'S ORDEAL.

From Serbian" offeial sourceß a stoi-y comes of torture inflicted by Bulgarians oh a Serbian woman, the wife of an officer against whom they had vowed vengeance for opposing Bulgarian propaganda. As they could not r»ach th« officer himself, they arrested his wife and five children. The wife was comlielloi to go on foot under escort from Pristina to Veles. where sho was condemned to death by court-martial. Next day she was kept waiting in sight of a gibbet, but after a, period of profound mental agony was removed to prison for 24 hours. On the following day she was again, taken, to the execution ground, and for 12 hours faced the gallows, awaiting her execution. Once more she was sent back to her cell, but in the ineantimo was flogged until she became unconscious. Then she was imprisoned at Nish, and again was led out lor execution, this time to be shot. She was lined up with a number of Serbian priests and schoolmasters, who. were shot before her eyes, but when it came to her turn she was told that she would \w sent to Sofia. ■ Here she was thrown into, a cellar, and her legs were-placed in irons. In this condition she was kept for four months without % change of ■clothed. Next she was sent to a p?isonfers' camp, and, bemg destitute, was forced to beg. She waa fiaal|| released after the armistice. • ™