Turks Massacre Greeks In Thrace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1913:
Eighteen Villages Wiped Out by the Army of Re-occupation.
ARMENIANS ALSO SLAIN
Greeks Again Defeat Bulgarians and Advance to the Frontier at Djuma.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, July 28.— A wireless dispatch to The Daily Chronicle from Constanza says:
    "Turkey has been running an 'atrocious campaign' most unscrupulously to cover her own misdeeds and distract attention from the appalling facts of the Thracian massacres by the Turkish army of reoccupation. The facts with regard to the cruelties perpetrated at Rodosto and continued to the eastward and northward, are now receiving full authentication, despite strenuous Turkish denials.
    "At Malgara, forty miles west of Rodosto, Turkish soldiers and Bashi-bazouks two days after the reoccupation, fired 280 houses, mainly belonging to Armenians, and killed all who tried to escape. At a rich monastery 300 Greeks were massacred. Eighteen Greek villages have been wiped out.
    The Turkish commander in chief in his report to the Grand Vizier endeavors to throw the blame upon the Bulgarians, and quotes as his authority the British Consul at Adrianople, who, as a matter of fact, is now absent.

    LONDON, July 27.— The Balkan peace conference is expected to open at Bucharest next Wednesday, but meantime serious fighting continues. The Greeks refused Bulgaria's request for even a three days' truce and, after heavy fighting, with great difficulty have got through Kresna pass, inflicting a defeat upon the Bulgarians at Simekle, capturing three siege guns and driving the Bulgarians back to Djuma. The Greeks say that they annihilated the whole left of the Bulgarian Army, and that they have forced the Bulgarians back along the Struma Valley, by which they have successfully invaded Macedonia right up to Djuma, on the Bulgarian frontier. Unless peace is speedily negotiated another great battle is likely to occur at Struma.
    No news was received to-day of fighting on the Servian frontier, but the large number of wounded men arriving in Belgrade indicates that severe actions are taking place.
    The concert of the powers seems as powerless as before to adopt any united action against Turkey. The Porte, however, has disavowed the action of its troops in penetrating old Bulgaria, and no further advance of Turkish troops has been reported. The Turks say that their spoils at Adrianople consisted of 150 guns, 50,000 rifles, and 1,000,000 sacks of corn.
    There are frequent reports of atrocities and massacres by Bulgarians and Turks. Izzet Pasha, the Turkish Commander in Chief, reports that Bulgarians murdered 200 Ottoman soldiers who had been taken prisoners near Kizily Enidje, while an admission of Turkish massacres of Armenians at Malgara and Rodosto comes in a report from Constantinople that a number of Moslems have been sentenced to death or to long terms of imprisonment for implication in the massacres.