RODOSTO MASSACRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11511, 8 November 1912, Page 5

RODOSTO MASSACRE.

LONDON, Thursday,

The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports that bands of famished Nizami (soldiers of the first line of the active army) who fled from Lileh Burgas converted Rodosto (on the Sea of Marmora, seventy-seven miles west of Constantinople) into a scene of massacre, outrage and pillage. The town was set on fire at seven points, and children were thrown into the flames.

The happenings at Rodosto are unnerving people in Constantinople, where the arrival of foreign warships has increased the Moslem exasperation.

There have been numerous murders of Greeks and Jews. Thirty-six Greeks were killed while unloading a steam-

The authorities are striving to repress the disorders.

Many European women and children arc embarking on steamers, and English residents are stocking their houses to withstand a siege.

Twenty warships of the various Powers are hastening to tho Bosphorus.