Bulgar Attacks Greeks.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 8, 1913:
Tsanoff Says Charges of Atrocities Are Due to Their Press Bureau.
    A statement charging that the accounts of Bulgarian atrocities in the present war in the Balkans are the product of a Greek press bureau, organized before the war started, was issued yesterday by S. V. Tsanoff. Vice President of the Bulgarian Society in this city. Papers arriving in this country dated just before the war, he says, told of plans for such a press bureau to portray "Bulgarian barbarities and atrocities" In the "inevitably coming war," and one of the Greek newspapers, the Acropolis, added:
    "Such a bureau would be worth two wars against Bulgaria if it only does its work well."
    "No doubt," said Mr. Tsanoff, "some highly regrettable happenings have taken place in the war zone. Any one could go after the battling armies and write most horrible stories of carnage and destruction. The retreating sides always imprison persons or destroy properties which the enemy may use against them, and they can't be blamed for it. The exceptional conditions in the Balkans may have produced exceptionally bad results. There, besides the armies against one another, the races also dislike one another, and for this feeling the Greeks are chiefly to blame. As the Turk has been exploiting the people politically for centuries, the Greek has done so in the name of the Church.
    "When ten years ago the Macedonians began rising against the Turkish rule, Greek bands were organized against them, siding largely with the Turks. Naturally traitors and betrayers appeared and caused great damage to the revolutionary cause. Macedonian volunteers in this war who have lost dear ones through such traitors may have tried to avenge them now, but when one comes to talk about atrocities characteristics, they belong much more to the Greeks than to the Bulgarians. The world may soon have a chance to see that the Greeks, by charging Bulgaria with hideous acts, have been speaking rather of their own misdeeds.
    "Who has corroborated the Greek charges against the Bulgarians? Where are the protests of Austria and Italy for dragging away their Consuls at Seres and disgracing their families? What Americans were killed at Xanty? How could 30,000 Turks be slaughtered at Doiran when that town has a population scarcely half so big and the majority are Christians? Where are the protests of the American Tobacco Company for destruction of their property?
    "Let American people be assured that Bulgarians are not atrocious, but the Greeks are tricky and treacherous, and it is much like the Greeks to scorch bodies, cut noses and ears of the same, and say Bulgarians mutilated them alive."