Turks Burning And Slaying.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 9, 1912:
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 8.— Recent letters from Gallipoli report terrible excesses by the Turkish troops in that district. The telegraph lines having been cut beyond Gallipoli, the military authorities held the Christian villages responsible for the work and ordered a detachment of troops to punish the residents.
    The troops burned the houses, held many villagers for ransom, massacred those who refused to pay, attacked the women and carried on wholesale pillage. The villages of Malgara, Keshen, Karadjali, Aloali, Grabunar, and Examili were practically destroyed.
    Turkish reinforcements from Asia Minor continue to arrive at Gallipoli.
    The authorities at Janina report that eighteen battalions, comprising the remnants of the Monastir Army, have reached there with artillery and ammunition, thus strengthening the Turkish position at that important Albanian town.