Turks Massacre Women.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 17, 1912:
Children of Christians Are Also Slain and Girls Carried Off Into Captivity.
    CETTINJE. Montenegro, Aug. 16.— Terrible reports have gained circulation in the capital to-night of another massacre of Christians by Mohammedans in Albania.
    A band of Mohammedan arnauts, supported by Turkish troops, to-day attacked a section of the Christian population in the Berana district or Albania, which lies close to the Montenegrin frontier.
    A fierce fight ensued and women and children are reported to have been murdered by the wholesale.
    Many girls were made captive and carried off by the Mohammedans.
    A large number of Christians and their families have fled from the district and taken refuge in Montenegro.
    The Government has ordered Gen. Vukotics. the Minister of War, to proceed to the frontier and take charge of the situation in an effort to maintain order.
    The massacre of Christians at Berana, reported from Cettinje, is the second affair of this kind in the Balkans within a fortnight, and may have an important effect on the strained relations between the Ottoman Empire and its neighbors to the north.
    On Aug. 2 a massacre of Bulgarians by Mussulmans, lasting several hours, followed the explosion of a bomb in the market place of Kotschana, fifty miles southwest of Uskup. Infuriated Turks who suspected Bulgarians of exploding the bomb, by which eleven persons were killed, are said to have slain 140 Christians and seriously wounded several hundred others.
    The strong feeling aroused in Bulgaria by the acute political relations which had arisen between Bulgaria and Turkey was intensified by the outrage, and the Bulgarian Government protested vigorously to Constantinople. Turkey replied that a commission had been appointed to investigate the disturbance, and that it was determined to punish the guilty soldiers.