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AXA VOwUME xXIX- LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDA, FFBRUARY 8, 14. NUMBE 0 GR[[tC ASKS (From "The Atlantis" a National Daily Greek Newspaper.) To those who have read these arti cles in succession, it twill be needless Lo recapitulate the indictment against Bulgaria. but we will briefly sum up the nature of the evidence as follows: 1. Oorroboration of (tihe accusa tjonv of Greece against I3ulgaria by eye witnesses of the atrocities. Those who Iidorse the assertions of Bulga ria admit that they were not in or near the seat of war. 2. Those 'who ex posed the Bulga rian atrocities were present either at the time, or immediately after the acts which called forth their protests. They were personal witnesses who saw the amoking ruins of the pillaged towns and the thousands upon thousands of mutilated corpses. It -was not until peace had been declared that any charges were preferred against the Greek army. 3. Bulgaria uttered -no denuncia tion of the Greeks until after peace was declared. Greece, it will be re membered, called the attention of the whole world to the iulgarian atrocites Kt tl., very outset of the war, and in v'ited the foreign correspondents to come gt once to the front and witness the horrors perpetrated by her bar barous enemy. 4. Bulgaria offers an excuse for her singular silence concerning the at rocites at the time 'when she now clailms they were committed. Accord ing to her present statement, she w is cut off from all communication with the outer world during, the war, and consequently was unable to register her protests against Greece. This is obviously a lie, for it is the incontesti ble fact that durinctoe whop, war, Mr. Blourchier, th q official Prws lur eau, and the notoribus Lieteazmnt Wagner, of the Vienna (Reichspost), wer' cx ceeding busy sending out war re ws, though they managed to 'olor it to suit thcir desires, a:t i to mintilm . time facts of rout and defeat. There was nothing whatever to prevent Bulgaria from protesting or for calling for dis interested witnesses to any "Greek atrocity," had any Greek atrocity oc enrred, 5. The foreign eye-witnesses who described the Bulgarian horrors, coml mnittel during the second war, number more than thirty with the Geek army and over twenty with the Servian troops. Bulgaria's indictment, brought after the close of the war, was signed by two journalists 'who never left So fla. Among those who f.,rmally de nounced the 11ulgarian atrocities were two foreign 'Consuls, t'vo Vice Consuls, mine war correspondents, represeit Ing almost every nation of Europe: a French diplomat, an ofilcer of the Biritisl Royal Nivy, the -heads of five tOroign missions and many residents and travelers of all nationalities, in cluding Americans 6. Il3ulgaria,'s savage bloodthirsti ness was demonstrated and authenti cated before the outbreak of the war with Greece. Of the 75 foreign cor respondentq attached to the various armies embroiled in the war with Turkey 7.1 united in accusing the Blul Garians of wholesale slaughter of Mo hammedan non-combatants and the torture and massacre of Turkish pris oners of 'war. These charges were officially confirmed in the iouso of Cnmmons by the British Minister of Foreign Affairs,. sir Edward Grey,' on the strength\ of the evidence submit ted to him through consular Chan nels. Nowhere is there mention of tihe elightest stain upon the honor of the Greek army, TIhe journalistic 4pport &g of Bulgaria, the only four who (lid not bring charges against her, were 54eutant Wagner, Bourchier, Wallis, Obd %'rsh,. 7.' Tens of thousands of Oreeks, Tlurks, .Jews and( teen Bulgarians fled Q 0m the districts where the Bulga Alli al'luy was operating, senking ref #l#e froin thmeil* depreciations, while not a single refugee during tile see dhdvar sought Bulgarian protection. ~They knew better than to trust such diends. '8. Th~e rulin8 of Sae-ran, 1Yfdxato and N irit anud dozen$ .bf oth~er Greek '~11nikke, bu rhbd hind lOOted by the fliliarlans, i& ' still standing--a ghastly Wihument to Bulgarian van dajisi ulad undeniable proof of her 4. On learning that their districts Vad been alioted to 'Bulgaria by thb 'treaty of peace, tile inhabitants of Mei 4pico and Strumnitza burned4 thhir 't6wns behind therm and souft Greek territory. They were not only tihe GO-deks. of the province, for 8,000 Bul garians emigrated with thlem. Greek, 'Turk, Jew and 'Bulgarian, they all Snow tile terrors of Blulgar~ah occum patlop and fled from it as from tlhe gplague, 10, Thg Oreeks are Cau'casions, they 'belong, do factco, to tihe European group of nations. Theoy have - ehlind them a gloriuf past anet before them anl Ideal of nobility and honor. Thie ligarians are Mongolian Tartars, as llnciviilzed at 'heart and as grossly ig morant as their ancestors, tihe p':teda tory ne~mfads, and inqlifedl by nature to atrociouli and barbarous acts. 'Wie 'will now consider the so-called evidence offered by Bulgaria in proof '4 her allegations against the aGreeks, qnd contnlned 'ip a number of pam V9hlets, which hateo been dolnt brioad 4Mast oveor the whole world by the nnoe. FOR JUSTICI al Printing Olicc at Sofia. First in order 'or importance is a col lection of letters purported to have been written by Greek soldiers to their families at home, describing the hideous toll of revehge they had ex acted from the Bulgarians who fell into their hands.- The letter bag of the 'Nineteenth Regiment, Seventh, Di vision, was suiposedi to have been cap tured by the Bulgarians. Thle facts are these: Bulgaria found herself, at the close of the war, over wlelmuel with dishonor and confront ed by a mountain of prof of her in human savagery. In the lust and fury, of slaughter she had forgotten what the results might be and must find af. way out of a difficult and embarrass ing position. To distract public at tention from her crimes, and by a campaign of libel to confuse the pub lic mind was her crafty solution of the difliculty. It was an easy method, a method entirely in keeping with Bulgarian duplicity. It was also a well tried plan with which she had the ad vantage of being thoroughly familiar. She had used it on :everal occasions, notably during the years fro..i 1900 to 1903, 'when Bulgaria terrorized the Creek inhabitants of Macedonia by means of bands of CotnitadlJs, or ganized and equipped by Bulgarian au thority. Macedonia was held by Tur key, but these raids were invariably directed against the Greeks, thousands of whom were killed. Bulgarian re ports styled this terrorization "revo lution," and when at last the exas perated peasants arose and offered armed resistance, driving out the ma rauders, Bulgaria cried aloud that she was persecuted. With the assistance of Mr. Bourchier and _Mr. Brallsford, author of "Macedonia and Its Races". and one of the founders of the Balkan Committe- of London, Profesor Milu koff and a number of other profession al defenders of Bulgaria, she managed to place a great number of the Eng lish speaking peoples under the im pression that the Bulgarians had been wronge" by the Greeks, who were busi ly decimating the innocent inhabitants of Macedonia, all of whom, from mer chant to fanTmer, were "purest Bulga rian !" "Macedonia" they cried, "had two tyrants, tile Turks and the Greeks!" Again we see the same tactical move, Bulgaria treacherousfly attacked the (reek and Servian armies at Uevgeli, Pangalon and Istip, and being defeatedl and her treachery exlosicd she' prompt ly accused 'r eece and Servia of at 'king iil M, "waging war against their faitful ally and precipitating a 'fratricidal struggle" by treacheroits ly attacking their comrades in aris." Bulgarian policy has always be)en one of craft and deceit and shit! did not hesitate to use her favorite weapons to defend herself. The 'Minister of For eign Affairs, Mr. Genadieff, and Mr. 'lourichier spent a night in the oflice of the former, and the "letters from -ek soldiers' .were the result of that collaboration. To Ir. Bouchier must be given the credit of the idea, the execution of which wn the work of M1r. Genadieff. The .task was easy for the Minister, he being a renegade Greek, born in -Macedonia. and educat ed at the University of Athens, where lie matriculated under the name of Genadios. The characteristic termina tion of "eff" he assumed when, being offered a Government position, lie de cided to throw in his lot with the Bul garians. 'He is a mercenary, belong ing to no country and gypsy-like, of fering -his services and allegiance to the highest bid~er. TPhe letters once wrzitten Mi'. fouchieri wvent directly fr'om the Foreign Offcee to the palace, where for' two hours hie romnaitned closeted with the king, The royal au dience over, Mr, Bouclhier, acceinp~an led b)y two American missionaries, took the Oriental Expi'ess to Paris, ini or'der' to blegin the agitation for the~ re yleioni oj the Treaty of *I~utharest. It i1g honhi th'iAhge to the Aei1 enh iblice that an English jocitrhatiet should so demean himself, but the fact is that 'Mr. Jlourchier's residence ot 25 years in Bulgaria has madn heim al most one of thgem, an~d he had receiv edl great fzavors al iheb handls of the Bulgarian Goveihhient. notably a vast estate-4he blscated lands of the monastfit? situated among the moune talinn of the southwevstern frontier of [utgkaria--fr'om which he depivedh am ple0 revenues, When in 1888 he 'was sent as correspuondent to the Dalkans, England was openly prio--Dulgarialn, which indeed is the ease today. Mr. Biourchiler found it necessary to ein form to the policy of n~ngland and to interp~ret the news with ant eye to British advantage. TPhe pro-hBilgf r'ian jolicy, att flrst a necessity of his almnst diplomnatic position, has be come peart a id par'cel of Mr. Tlouchier's personality; anid A "flreat Bulgaria" has 'become his diream and aim. To that end lie wllt underwrite any state ment hiow~ver untrue, and seek to justify iay act, -however' criminal, In 1906 the Bulgarians burned the Gr"ok seaport of Aubialos, in Eastern inlia, andl drove 50,000 (Greeks,. .ii their honmes. The Greek population of Eastern Rtoumnelia at the time wh'len this former Turik lah province wvas seiz by -1Ulgaria, numnbered about 850,000. At ,present only 30,000 Greeks rce~nain. 'Me'. Natcheovitz, then iiister' fron) Ilulgaria to Trurk~ey, resigr ,d his post In nrntest, declaning tiat l ".meit', not debase %limnself by continuing to represent a country whose acts were a disgrace to humanity." Mr. Bou chief, however, found no difilculties with his conscience, nor did he hesi tate to justify that which a Bulgarian diplomat had foutnd inexcusable. The crimes and atrocities commit i by the Bulgarians in the Greco Bulgarian War, were, however, so shocking and so completely attest&;l that even the "Times, that official or gan of British policy, did not dare to fly in the face of pu-blic opinions and was forced to loin its voice in the gen eral chorus of Indignation. 'T'hen it was that the "Times" presented it strange contradiction to its readers. While .\Mr. IH ouch ier's letters from Nola were pieturiring the Bulgarians as spot less innocents, the editorials were de nottneing them and declaring their de Ic::t was a just punItshmient for their crimes. 'When "the letters" were produeed by the lBulgarians, the Greek Ambassa dor in Paris gave the press an officlal statement, declaringr that the docn aient.1 were forgeries and challenging the IluIgarian Govern ment to requ est 10ngland aid France to nake public th' ":lmaustive reports of their oil cial investigators, ir. II a gouet and Captain Cardale, concerning the Bul garian atroelties. Bulgaria could ac cept no such challenge. Dr. Vamvakas, formerly Deputy from Macedonia for the Turkish Parl iament, publicly pointed out the fact that all the letters, when subjecte" to careful atnaysis, proved to have been written by the same -hand. l)r. Vin vakas ft ther suggested that the plot to discredit by means of forged let ters was borrowed by Abdul FlamiId, who, when the outcry against his Ar menian massacres became uncoifort ably clamorous, caused a number of forged letters to be published in fac si'mile, purporting to have been writ ten by Armenian plotters who boasted of their awful massacres of the Kurds! We quote from the Paris "Temps" "We must admit that the Bulgarians have a peculiar talent for forging doc uments with which to meet any situa tion that may arise. This time, through very excess of zeal, they have unmasked themselves. The Bulgarian pamphlets defamine Greece contain re productions of fourteen letters, pf which only four show any destinatioh. Only that part of each letter which dieals with "atrocities" is reproduced. We would be very much interested to know what else the letters contained. The forger cfrt forgers of the letters would be it once convicted were they tp try to manufacture personal details which could esily be checkei up and verilled -so they wisely refrained f'ron doing so. It is also to be noted taut no tmnitiot of the date or llace of the s;eiztur of the mail bag is giv en. 'I lie 11lgarian government con tents itself with a vague statemnent that "the letters were tound In the i)istrict Itazlog." iland such a seizure really occurred he Bulgarians would be the first to give a setailedi account of the time, place and manner of such seizure, and, furthermore', the text l every letter would have been pub lished in full." On page 13 of the pamphlets, refer red to by the "Temps," a letter is shown purported to have been writ ten in Rodope, blt bearing the stamp of 'Salonica. HOw did it get there, when it was presumably captured be fore it started on its. Journey, and should not have gone to Salonica any way? The letters teem with inac qura cies, even the translations into other languages have been tampered with in order to give them the color most likely to suit the nation before whom the evidence 'was placed. Ten letters with no envelopes and no addresses whatever! t it,s incon ceivable that the Builgarians should not repiroduce the envelopes 'bearinig the names of the addressees had they posssed anything of the sort. They simplly did not possess antything 'of the sort. It is eqtually inconceivable that Greek soldiers confld/d their let ter's to the mail bags without envelope or address. Another hiamphiet contains puhoto grapihs of 'four wounded men, one a boy1 These, they assert, are non-com batahit thigarians 'who were mutilated by the Greeks. I~ven were this true, the displ,ay is ridiculous. Tnciden tally, the pictures were taken by ofIeial or der long after peace was declared. The rest of the pamphlets are made up of assertions without proof of any kind. and pages of lmp~assionedl ,rorimia tion and 'wordy sophistries. Hundreds of photographs of th' burned cities of Macedonia are obtain able. ilutpdreds also of the lpiled vic tilms of Bulgarian fury. The testinboy of scores of disinterested foreigners of' unquestioned veracity supplort in -Ie tail every priotest of the areek dov enment. The contentions of the Bul garians 'become absurd in the face o, the vast mnas of evidllo against t'hom. It in not a matter of four wounded thlen or the assertions of two or three int'orested par'ties, it is the overwheliping accusation of the (lentihs of 200,000 humtian beings, meni, women and little children, a gory holocaust and a ghastly sacr'ifice to the most in human, barbarous and treacherous na tion on earth., The Best (Cough Medicine. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Rletmedy ever since I have beeni keeping house,' says L,. 'C. flames, of Marbury, Ala. "I consider it one of the best rem edies I efver used. My ('hilhdren have all titken it rnd it works likec a charm. For colds and whooping coutgh it is excel lent. For salo by all dealers. CROSS HILL NEWS Cross Hill, Feb. 14.-Another sad death occurred here Wednesday morn ing when Mrs. liessie Smith, wife of Mr. .John Sm ith, died at her home two miles out of town in the Longview see tion. She h:td beens unwell for a year or more, -but her condition becatme worse about the beginning of this year and gradually grew uncontrolable. I low e((r, she was perfectly consciots :; ti ha death anid bore her suffering with marked Christian fortitude, even pleasantly talking and laughing on Tuesday the (lay before her death. As death s eizecd the .mortal body the soul w:'s stilI clinging with brightness to that eternal hope which had so evi dently charaeterized her life. 'rium phant is the death in the faith that makes a I rue life. The remains were placed iln the cemt etery at :'ross ill 'T hursday afternoon The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. .1. A. Martin of the Baptist church in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends. M\rs. Smith was forty-two years of age. Before marriage she was Miss ilessie Culbertson. Ilesides her lus band andi nine children, she leaves a mother, three sisters and two broth ers. The brothers are Rev. .1. M. Cul bertson of Lockhart, Union county and Mr. S. Y. Culbertson of Trough Shoals in the same county. The sisters, Mrs. Kanie Wells and Mrs. Olive Hill of the Mt. Olive section and Miss Kora Cul hertson of this place.. Mr. Homer 11111 and Miss Florence Goodwin, just ovrt the line in New berry county, were marriedi a few days ago. Another company of sportsmen, an even half dozen. took an outing this week to the lower part of the state on a fox and bird hunting tour. Messrs. .1. Wade 11111, A. M. 11111, .1. I. Rasor. ii. 11. Fuller, W. B. Fuller and R. S. (rillin made up the gleeful company. Miss Lila Compton of Coronaca has been engaged to teach music in the Cross .]ill high school and has already entered upon her work. Miss Co-mp ton is a Splendid teacher, well eqCuip p('d for ler work, having Studied an1d taught' music in Coker College for some time. She ha; an interesting class here of about twenty boys and girls and the work is moving off even beyond expectations. -Mr. John B. Rasor of Greenville, was here this week. Mrs. Etta Garrett of Atlanta, visited her brother, Mr. 31. L. Nelson this week. Cross Hill, Feb. 16.-We have $ ready spoken of the good work done on the roals of thisteetion by Super visor H. B. Humbert and Commission or J. Bl. Hitt. But the last work is so fine that It needs special mention. On the road leading to Harris Spring and Waterloo there have been some red ,muddy 'places. For years travel has been difficult In winter. Two weeks ago thlese ofmeers had 950~ wvag on loads of sand hauled to these bad places andl now they are in splendid condition. WVhere on1ce travel was a burden now it becomes a pleasure. Bad places on other roadJs hlave been put in the same goodl condition. Super visor Humbert and Commissioner HlItt have been faithful to duty wilth an eye to plermanlent road building, and de servo much. credlit for the imp~rove ments made hero. Miss Bianche Martin of Greenwood, visited 1her slot'r, Mirs. L. F. Mc~lwain Saturday nd Sunday. Mr's. 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