Saturday, July 20, 2013

More Bulgar Atrocities.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 20, 1913:
Brigade Surrenders to Rumanians with Its Guns.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    SALONIKA, July 19.— New details of Bulgarian atrocities committed in Seres are being discovered daily by the Parliamentary Investigating Committee, which reports that new victims have been transported to the hospitals.
    One of these was a woman who had been run through the stomach, while her infant, four months old, had been perforated by some weapon through to the back.
    Twenty persons resorted to a church for protection. They were ordered by the soldiers to come out. Other Bulgars, stationed outside, fired as they came out and killed all of them.
    A prominent woman was disfigured pitiably by the explosion of a bomb, thrown purposely in front of her.
    The atrocities are inhuman — far more ferocious than those committed in the Middle Ages.

    BUCHAREST, July 19.— An entire Bulgarian brigade of the Ninth Division, with its commanding General and twelve field guns, surrendered to a Rumanian flying column yesterday at Fernandovo between Lom Palanka and Sofia.
    The captured brigade was acting as a rear guard and assisting in the retirement of Major Gen. Kutintcheff's division when it was overtaken by the Rumanian cavalry and artillery and surrendered after a brief fight.

    ATHENS, Greece, July 19.— Peace between Greece and Turkey is about to be concluded formally. The Hellenic plenipotentiaries started from here today for Constantinople to sign the treaty.

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