Αναφορά της εφημερίδας Montpelier examiner για την σφαγή του Σιδηροκάστρου, 18 Ιουλίου 1913

Αναφορά της εφημερίδας Montpelier για την σφαγή του Σιδηροκάστρου, 18 Ιουλίου 1913

VENGEANCE ON BULGARIANS

DEMANDED BY GREEK KING

Soldiers Accused of Murdering Girls

and to Have Surpassed All flhe

Horrors of Barbaric Times.

Athens.—King Constantine hag sent

the following message to the Greek

minister cf foreign affairs:

"The commander of the sixth divi

sion reports that Bulgarian soldiers,

carrying out the orders .of their cap

tain, gathered together in the court

yard of the school at Demirhissar, two

priests and over 100 notables whom

they massacred. The bodies have

been disinterred in order to prove the

crime. Bulgarian soldiers violated

girls, one of whom resisting, was cut

to pieces.

"Protest in my name to the repre

sentatives of the civilized powers

against the acts of these monsters in

human forhi. Protest also to the en

tire civilized world and say that, to

my regret, 1 see myself compelled to

wreak vengeance in order to inspire

those monsters with terror and make

them reflect before committing more

outrages of this sort.

"The Bulgarians have surpassed all

the horrors of barbaric times and have

proved that they no longer have a

right to be reckoned among civilized

people.

The commander of the seventh

division reports that the town of

Seres has been burned with the ex

ception of the Jewish and Mussulman

quarters. Many men, women and

children were found murdered or

burned in their homes. Twenty thou

sand persons are without shelter.

Τι απέγιναν οι νεκροί της Ασβεσταριάς του Σιδηροκάστρου του 1913