A Year of Slaughter and Rapine Directed Against Mussulman and Christian Alike.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 18, 1913:
BEGUN AT PETROVO IN 1912
Since Then the Bulgarians Have Perpetrated "Horrors Such as Human History Has Never Before Recorded."30,000 SLAIN AT DOIRAN
Women and Girls Outraged and Then Burned in a Mosque to the Music of Bagpipes.
NEW TORTURES INVENTED
Described by the King as "Refinements of Cruelty Which the Imagination Refuses to Comprehend."
WHOLE REGION DESOLATED
"Everywhere the Bulgarian Has Passed One Sees Only Blood, Dishonor, and Ruin."
CONSULS HELD FOR RANSOM
American Flag Fired On at Serres and Million Dollar Warehouse of American Tobacco Co. Destroyed.
ORDERED BY THE OFFICERS
Not the Work of Camp Followers — Greece Will Not Suspend Hostilities Until Satisfaction Has Been Obtained.Special Cable to The New York Times.
    SALONIKA, July 17.— By order of his Majesty King Constantine I have the honor to address to you the following dispatch in response to your telegram, requesting from his Majesty a full account of the atrocities perpetrated by the Bulgarian Army:

    SALONIKA. July 17.— Without going over the motives which have led Greece, Servia, and Montenegro to repulse by force of arms the unexpected but well-prepared attacks of the Bulgarians on their allies of yesterday, which attacks have dictated to the allied governments their actual attitude, the atrocities committed every day by the Bulgarian armies and the outrages, long concealed, committed by the Bulgarians on the Turkish and Greek peoples since the first days of the Balkan war, impose on the allies an energetic attitude and the obligation to exact and to obtain for the future all necessary guarantees.
    As the Greek army advances crimes of unthinkable cruelty are discovered. The Bulgarian authorities have silenced the voices of thousands of innocents who perished under horrors such as human history has never before recorded. There is not a village which has been occupied by the Bulgarians that has not had its men, women, and children massacred, its young women outraged, its houses robbed and burned.
    At the first invasion of Demir-Hissar, last October, the Bulgarians massacred all the men of the village of Petrovo, and, after having outraged women and young girls, locked them in the mosque and set fire to it. They played on the bagpipes while the victims were dying.
    At Petritch they made the wives and daughters of the victims dance before the bodies of the Musulmans. At Doiran 30,000 Mussulmans were slaughtered and all their goods were plundered. At Nevrokop it was the same. At Melnik, Drama, Seres, Dedeagatch, Strumitza — everywhere the Bulgarian has passed — one sees only blood, dishonor, and ruin.

Slaughter of the Greeks.
    To the tortures endured yesterday by the Musselmans come now those of the Christians. Even before the new war began the Bulgarians were oppressing all the Greek population of the territories occupied by them, and at the time of their sudden attack at Pangheon they did not hesitate to quench their thirst for blood on the inoffensive Greek villagers.
    After their first defeats the Bulgarians turned upon the Greek population with unspeakable acts by the hundred against men, women, and children. By order of the officers the Greeks were horribly mutilated, their houses were burned, and their goods were stolen.
    At Doiran the Greek Bishop and thirty notables were slaughtered.
    At Cavalla the Archbishop and twenty-eight Greek notables were assassinated by the Bulgarians before they abandoned the village.
    At Pravi the Bishop and more notables perished in the same way.
    At Demir-Hissar the Bishop and three priests, with many notables and some women, were tortured and put to death.

The Destruction of Seres.
    Seres, a flourishing and rich city, was almost completely destroyed by fire. The Vice Consuls of Austria and Italy tried officially in vain to protect their consulates. The Bulgarians did not even respect the persons of the Consuls, but carried them to the mountains and only released them on the payment of heavy ransoms.
    The national flags of foreign countries were raised on European and American buildings, but had no effect. On the contrary, the Bulgars concentrated their fire on the foreign houses because they knew that these houses sheltered numerous refugees.
    They cannonaded the city. The defenseless citizens abandoned all their possessions, and in many cases their infirm relatives, to flee from the rain of shot which pitilessly pursued them. The great warehouses of the American Tobacco Company were burned, causing in all a loss of more than $1,000,000. The managers, Messrs. Harrington and Moore, escaped to Salonika during the conflagration.
    Bombs and shells raked the city, wiped out thousands of families, and left hundreds of victims.
    The Bulgarians cried "Hurrah!" and dragged to the flames all which they could carry from the business houses and stores.
    All the houses were sacked. Neither the many churches, the mosques, the synagogues, nor the hospitals were spared. Before the destruction of the city the distinguished Greek residents were massacred in cold blood.

Desolation Everywhere.
    The scenes in the country are even more shocking. Everywhere are the mutilated bodies of peaceful peasants, everywhere are ashes and ruins where were joyous villages — a poignant desolation.
    Ordinary massacres no longer satisfy the Bulgarians, and they have invented refinements of cruelty which the imagination refuses to comprehend. Girls are outraged before their parents, wives before their husbands, young men and old men are mutilated. Before the work is done their limbs are broken, their eyes are torn from the sockets. They disembowel one, burn another, cut off the noses and ears of others.
    At first it seemed that these crimes had been committed by camp followers, but investigation has unmistakably shown that all was done by regular soldiers under the orders of their chiefs.
    The Bulgarian authorities prepared everything, and directed everything. A Bulgarian Captain, Dimitri Botsanoff Anguet, was seen presiding at the massacres at Demir-Hissar. Elsewhere there were officers of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Regiments.
    It is unbelievable that a civilized people could be so primitive as to commit such monstrosities, and one shudders to think of what may happen in the future to the Mussulman and Greek populations that may remain under Bulgarian domination.

Guarantees to be Demanded.
    The Hellenic Government has already protested against acts without number committed by the Bulgarians, and among the peace conditions our Government will exact genuine guarantees to assure the complete safety of the Greeks from the Bulgarians. These guarantees, as well as all the other clauses of the compact, ought to be discussed and signed upon the field of battle before the end of hostilities.
    After the experience which we have had of Bulgarian duplicity, there can be no question of suspending hostilities before we obtain satisfaction for all our just complaints and before there are assurances to the Greeks and Turks who live under Bulgarian administration of an existence safe from oppression and from the massacres of which the Bulgars have given thus far this horrible example.