Fleeing Turks Slay, And Burn Villages.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 4, 1912:
Fresh Evidence of Moslem Atrocities Found by English Correspondent.
NO MERCY TO CHRISTIANS
Captives Killed to Save Further Trouble — Only the Turks' Houses Spared.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Nov. 3.— The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Bresnitzas has been collecting evidence of Turkish atrocities.
    He says he has ocular proof of them, having seen the graves of women and children, who were recently slaughtered, collected chains and instruments of torture, and spoken with survivors of the massacres. He goes on:
    "Col. Nycobt personally accompanied me to-day and showed me more than a dozen villages between Djumaya and Krupnik that have been completely burned by the Turks. Every house was razed to the ground. Not a vestige of property of any kind had been left. All had been pillaged by the Turkish soldiers. The only villages that remained intact were the few inhabited exclusively by Turks.
    "One village, which had some 300 houses, has not a single house left. All were in ashes. Grodove, Mestantza, Osenova, Serbin, and dozens of similar Villages have only ruins left. "Simetli was spared only because it was Turkish, but all the Turkish inhabitants have fled, as if they believed what the Turkish soldiers do to Christians the Bulgarian soldiers would do to Moslems.
    "Yet this is not true, as every house and piece of Turkish property has been respected, and even the mosques are being guarded from profanation by the Bulgarian soldiers.
    "Coming to Serbin, I saw the graves of nine Bulgarians or Macedonians, seven men, one woman, and a boy of 9, who had been dragged that distance in chains from Djumaya, and whose throats were pitilessly cut here at the roadside by Turkish regulars. Near by, in a field, were small chains with padlocks, which the Turks used to chain men and women together in pairs.
    "They drove these captives before them as far as Krupnik, then, finding it a nuisance to have to drive them on, took them in pairs into the brushwood at the roadside, and cut their throats or hacked open their skulls with swords."