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BULGAR ATROCITIES UNPARALLEDED CRIMES.

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Here is a story of cold-blooded butchery, without equal evon in this war. It is the tale of a deliberate, systematic effort by the Bulgarians, extending over three months, to exterminate the national spirit of Serbia, by killing everyone in the parts of the country they occupied, whom they thought capable of maintaining it. To my mind, the facte which I aan about to relate are crimes which will earn for Bul garia the odium of civilisation. During these massnores, the Germans, by con- traat with the Bulgarians, appeared to the inhabitants of Serbia As protectora and agents of mercy.

GERMANY MUST PAY.

100,000,000 PEOPLE UNDER

TRIBUTE

YEARLY TAX OF £3.

BY SIR JOSEPH LAWRENCE, ST.) The question is asked at every election orting, Do you intend to make. Ger many pay for the war?" and the annyer invariably is: Yes. every furthing that she capable of paying

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It is atated that the Clovernment has committee of experts already at work investigating all the economic facts as to Germany's resources. In the meantine State Bank are being depleted - her monetary

reserves at the Imperial on the bank having in the last seven weeks drawn out currency to the amount of 5,000 millions of marka, or more than

tifies the Len

amount in the correspood. ing period of the previous year. Doubt- less, the seventy-five millions sterling of gold paid to Germany by the Bolshevik Government of Russia will shortly dis- appear and be passed into the people's hoardings.

in Westphalia, estimated to be worth Germany has immense deposits of coal itch 10 the Bulgarian aloue £80,000,000,000, and great deposita

WHY BE UPSET

WHEN

I have gathered during the last three days, from many different sources informa tion and evidence which ortablish tho Bulgarina guilt beyond all doubting Directly they bad established themselves on Serbian soil in this region, the Bul garians began to change the Serbians by force into "Bulgarians. After forbidding the use of the Serbian language, ch the Serbian schools, compelling everyone to change the ending of his naine from the Serbian

"off" after installing Bulgarian mayors, of fertiliser minerals, ou of both of bishops, tax-collectors, and milltary which Germany could alone well afford police, they arrested in every town end to pay the total war costs of a the village all the men who belonged to what Allies. Saue of the latter deposils are may be called the intellectual clae. They in Alson and will nulurally intre to chose out the Parliamentary Deputies, the benefit of France, though it is alleged judges, teachers, lawyers, priests, and that there are still greater deposits of employers of labour, formed them into this the Baltic Sun which are practic material in territories ganga, and arched them

From that time, until the defeated Bulgarians ally untouched. away

The coal deposits of evacuated Serbia the other day, the friends Westphalia are claimed to equal four to of these people heard nothing of their four and a half times in extent the whole - NIAS .... fate; but now the ghastly story is known.

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These statements are said to be based TJIPANAS The men, numbering at least 3,000 from on the researches and reports of a geologi the towns and villages of the Vranja tal conference, held at Stockholu, some region alone, were taken in detachments little time before the outbreak of war. of about fifty at a time to a place which Apart from mineral deposits, Leguany the Bulgariaza chose their slaughter has nearly 35,000,000 neren of forest house, and there, every night, one party lauds, which yield about 50,000,000 cubic after another, from December, 1915, to yards of timber and Brewood annually. March, 1918, had their throats cut, or Half are State or communal lands. In were stabbed to death. The

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the German States owned, in name the Bulgarians have thus made ter. March, 2014, 95,632 miles out of 39,439 rible, is a small place called Burdulitza yielding in 1912 goods and passen- twenty miles north-east of Vranja, near the gures, or $155,000,000.

of over 3,125 millions of Bulgarian frontier.

went there yester- marks, day and saw the graves and the surviving Germany has relatives of the 2,500 victims to Bulgarian lead,

I am unable to say savagery who there met their end. The how much is owned by the State and bow lead, copper, also deposits of irou, zine, doonied men, against whom the Bulgarians much by private individuals, and the had no other charge whatever, except

that same applies to coal deposits. Altoge they were patriotic Serbians, and likely ther, they would serve as good security, to keep up t the national spirit among their if seized and worked under the control fellow-countrymen, would arrive almost of the Allies, for whatever indennities every day at Burdulitza under strong Germany may be called on to pay to the Bulgar guard. They were locked up in Allies. bouses which I saw, and then at night The matter does not end there. It has marched down to a gully which I visited. been suggested that every one in Ger whore, tied four or five together with my, and Austria, too, might be called ropes, they were stabbed or bayonetted to on, as an alternative, to pay an annual death and buried where they lay. The eu, as indemnity or reparation to the peasants of Surdulitzs offered to dig up Allice, based an assessinent tax of 60

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the gravea to let me see how the heads much per head of the population, for NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO

were severed from the bodies.

TERRIBLE HOLOCAUST.

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fifty or a hundred years, until the whole debt is redeemed. Not all the killing was carried out in The population of Germany, i in 1914, was this gully. On the other side of the estimated at (roundly) sixty-eight

millions village is a little wood. Every night, the hand that of Austria Hungary, in 1910, peasants of Surdalitza, who were forbid at forty-nine millions-together, 117 mil den to leave their houses after sunset, lions. I leave Turkey and Bulgaria out, board men's screams coming from those as they are bankrupt already. Taking trees. They knew too well what was hap the combined populations of Germany, pening, but did not dare to go near. the following morning, the fierce villages

And Austria, etc., at only a hundred millions dogs would bring into the streets human then an average of three pounds a head potential taxpayers," and taxing arms and even heads which they had torn per annum, the yield would be 300 mil- off the bodies of the murdered men. Two Tion thousand five hundred in the local estimate

pounds.

Three pounds a year (for interest and

of the number of the Serbians who, at sinking fund) would represent a formid Surdulitza, forfeited their lives to their able sum in capital value at the end of during the first three months hundred years at 4 per cent. Reckoned as simple interest, it would represent a um equal to £20,000,000,000, bit, with 2 sinking fund, the Allies could borrow at least £20,000,000, against it.

Three

of this

of Not more than forty people were actually killed at. Vranja itself, but once & fortnight all the surviving men were ordered out of the town while the Bul- garians ransacked and robbed their houses, under pretext of searching for arms, and sum to be paid as an average

pounds A year is not a heavy sometimes also outraged their women. whole of the two nations. Bome German At Ushevtse, a hamlet to the north of millionaires might have to pay £5,000, Vranjo, 120 men, women, and children, the entire population, were killed in one £10,000, or £20,000 each a year, which

would

the enormously reduce day. At Vladichi, all the women were payable by the very poorest. That would collected and some of them violated. The rest were tied up and left, until two not be our affair, but the affair of those days later the Bulgarians came buck and who regulate the internal revenue an- completed the work of outrage. Last year, Income-tax.

ances of Germany, as we do our own

amount

at Yelashnitse and Krivalaja, innocent £300,000,000 per annum, both Germany Ae against a war tax of peasants were stripped naked, tied down und Austria might save nearly two-thirds, to braziera, and roasted over slow Ares to make them confess that they possessed by disbanding the bulk of their armies hidden arms. Lebane aud Leskovats were and navice. probably the worst martyred towns of

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Anything is better than the present half-hearted way of saying that we mean to make Germany pay what sho brutally- can bear to pay. She can pay if

made

bonkers, of whom there are some in to pay. My fear is that cosmopolitan London, Paris, and New York, may be influenced from Berlin, Vienna, Frank-

At the former plast, twenty people tione for consideration, and to evoke dis ere beaten

death And now what is to be done to punien this cynically-planned executed policy of murder! The names of the Bulgarian officers directly respon sible for the butchery are known. As the only British witness, who has you had the opportunity to investigate these crimes fort, Amsterdam, and other European I would sincerely suggest that we owe it to our Serbian Allies, who have suffered a terribly in the common cause, that we should immediately demand the appear- ance before an Inter-Allied Court-martial of the Bulgarian officers thus accused by common.report.

SYSTEMATIC BRUTALITIES,

At Uskub, the Bulgarians are pused of having committed, during their occupation, a systematic series of outrages, which call, for bution by the Allies se manifestly

retri-

money-centres to say: "Don't be hard on Germany. We must steel ourselves against these biandishments,

is

Germany had no mercy on France in 1871. We must be firm with Germany now. As President Wilson said, "Sho

without

and I would add, taught a lesson which will ring down throughout the centuries--that " wor does not pay.

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as their deliberate massacres in cold blood with a stout club. A seventy-year-old

at Surdulitzo. My information about the woman was arrested by night, taken to crimes of these men and their subordinates the Bulgarian Headquarters, and beaten comes from

on the Serbian Prefect of the till she died.

place, whom

Uskub Departinant, and from some of the inhabitants of the brought together for me to question. As cording to their storice, outraging young girls was made a matter of routine by the Bulgarian authorities at Usküb. Orders were issued for the girls to report themselves at the Bulgarian Headquar

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Each returning party of British officers, who have been prisoners of war in Bul garis, brings fresh details of the brutality of the Bulgarians. There is a prison camp of Borbian civilians which was near our lines at Philippopolis," an English R.A.F. pilot told me, wo daily saw Hero is 4 general would walk down the ranks pick typical instance. One morning I

heard ing out the ones that pleased him. This a woman screaming, and, Jocking round, story ecete so. extraordinary that I ex-I saw a Sorbian girl held face downwards pressed doubt about it, but the Prefect by two sentrice on the ground, while two maintains that the fact is established by others with sticks, an "inch thick, were the fullest corroboration. The girls giving her twenty-five strokes on the hare chosen for the amusement of the Bul- hok I had learned to speak Bulgarian; garian officers were given the choice be and I said to another sentry: Why are tween subunitting and boing exiled to Bul you beating that woman. The explana enria

tion which I gradually got out of him was Lesser outragre were frequent at Uskub, biis. One of the Bulgarian guards had even though this is the chief city of the wanted to make love to the girl. She ran Macedonia which the Bulgarians claim to away from him, and took refuge in s be theirs by right of race. A young girl shed where the Horbian men-prisoners was charged by the Bulgarians with like-wore kept The guard onto after her, and ing been visited secretly by her brother, dragged her out again, and they wore soldier in the Sochian Army. Bha wasow beating her on a dinege of being ordered to be. bied up in a sack and flogged found ur thio mon's quarters contrary to

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