Another Bulgar Massacre.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 22, 1913:
Doxatos Destroyed — Inhabitants Surrounded and Butchered.
[Official Report from King Constantine's Headquarters.]
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    SALONIKA, July 21.— The formerly flourishing town, of Doxatos has been completely destroyed and is now only ruins and ashes. A small mound marks the spot where the innocent victims of Bulgarian savagery lie.
    The massacre took place on a Sunday. Low mass was not over when the villagers saw the Bulgarian cavalry approaching Doxatos by the road from Drama. The frightened inhabitants thought to save themselves by the road to Cavalla, but the Bulgarians has foreseen this and had blocked the road by squads of cavalry, while from one side a battalion of infantry came up.
    The people thus surrounded, the massacre began at once. Women, children, and old men begged for pity in vain. It was a veritable butchery. The road was filled with bodies. Some inhabitants were able to save themselves by fleeing to other Turkish villages, where they were received with eagerness.
    After the massacre the town was plundered. The fate of 500 persons who started to flee is not known.
    The professional bodies and workmen's associations of Salonika have addressed a telegraphic appeal to the workmen throughout Europe and America denouncing the Bulgarians' atrocities — the innumerable massacres of old men, women, and children, the burning of towns, and the devastation and destruction of a whole province.
    It is declared that these outrages, being committed by an army drawn from the Bulgarian people, have shown what a menace they are to enduring peace, so necessary to the development of the common people. The appeal invites the labor organizations to proclaim the incapacity of the Bulgarians and the danger of allowing them to organize themselves further for war, and it calls upon the organizations to work to obtain the civilizing tutelage of foreign nations.