SERB PRIESTS
BURNED ALIVE
BY BULGARS
PIROT, Serbia, Feb. 1 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—Con
firmatory evidence of the slaughtei
of Serbian priests by Bulgarians dur
ing the wgr was given to a represen
tative of the Associated Press todaj
by the Rev. Miliya Yontschitch, pas
tor of one of the churches here, who
personally witnesses the massacre ol
twenty of his colleagues and one
Serbian officer. All, he says, were
shot and many were burned alive.
Father Yontschitch escaped a simi
lar fate only by feigning death after
he had been shot. He exhibited to
the Associated Press correspondent
two bulleb wonds in his left shoulder.
Another priest, the Rev. Thomas Popo
vitch of Pirot escaped by fleeing
across the mountain road.
The murder of the priests took
place November 25, 1915, in the village
of Kremaencia, about thirty-five miles
east of Nish, according to the story oi
Father Yontschitch, which follows:
Father Yontschitch, in company
with twenty-two other Serbian priests
was taken by Bulgarians from Pirot
to Nish, where they were thrown into
a cell and forced to live for five days
without food or water. After his re
lease he and his companions, who in
cluded Lieutenant Tasa Gorgevitch of
the Serbian army, were marched by
their captors for thirteen hours to
Bela Palanka, thirty miles east of
Nish, an armed guard walking behind
each.
After about two hours’ walk from
Bela Palanka the priests came to a
halt and were ordered to turn off the
road into a very small valley to the
right. It was after midnight and half
a moon gave the only illumination to
the lonely mountain roads and valleys.
The priests had not gone far when the
guards shot them in their backs.
Father Yontschitch dragged himself
in the darkness behind a large rock,
whence he could see the whole scene
of murder being enacted by the Bul
gars.
He saw his colleagues dragged,
some dead, some half alive, to pyres
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which had been prepared for them,
and their bodies thrown to the flames.
Many of the men, said Father Yont
schitch, were still alive when the Bul
gars saturated their bodies with gaso
line and set them afire. Flames
spread about them and they pleaded
piteously for mercy but their pleas
. were met with sneers. After the
I flames had spent themselves, said
Father Yontschitch, the charred
bodies of twenty-one victims were
thrown into two holes. Arms, legs,
heads, he said, were left protruding,
exposed to the ravages of dogs and
wolves that invest the mountains in
the neighborhood.
The Bulgers left the scene before
daybreak. Father Yontschitch made
his way on foot to the village of Po
nor, and eventually to Pirot, his home.
From that time, twenty-one months,
he concealed himself from the Bulgars
under the floor of the house. He
lived almost like a rat, food being
lowered to him through a hole in the
floor. The Associated Press corre
spuondent visited this place and saw
the wretched conditions under which
Yontschitch lived. When the priest
emerged from his self-imposed con
finement, his appearance had so
changed that his friends failed to rec
ognize him. He was later' seized by
the Bulgars and sent to a prison camp
at Eski Djuma, near the Rumanian
frontier, where for three months his
only food was a slice of bread and a
few pieces of leek each day. When
the war ceased, Father Yontschitch
and 150 other Serbian priests were re
turned home.
To confirm the priest’s story, the
correspondent visited the spot where
the victims of the massacre were
buried. The place is obscured on all
sides by mountains. Many bones,
skulls, and parts of the priests’ vest
ments being scattered about in con
fbusion. The correspondent found
near the bones a number of empty
cartridges of Bulgarion manufacture.
Little candles had been placed in the
ground by local peasants who came
each day to say prayers over the
graves after the Bulgarian evacuation.
An international investigation com
mission is expected soon to examine
the scene.
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BOLSHEVIKI!
IN RUSSIA NOV
FACESFANINE
LONDON, Feb. 5 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Russian
Bolsheviki have a well-equipped and
disciplined army of one million men,
and will have doubled its size and
effectiveness in another six or seven
months, says the Rev. Cyrus Richard
Mitchell, American Young Men’s Chris
tian Association secretary, who was
in charge of the association’s work at
Kazan, on the Volga river, and who
has returned from Russia after fifteen
months of service in Bolshevik Russia.
Dr. Mitchell has just filed his report
on the Russian situation as it applies
to the American Y. M. C. A. work with
the headquarters for the United King
dom here.
The gravest danger to the Bolshe
vik regime, Dr. Mitchell believes, is
famine. If the Bolsheviki can feed
Russia for the next six weeks they
will continue in power indefinitely,
is the conclusion reached by Dr.
Mitchell.
“If the Bolsheviki can hold control
until the end of March they will
probably carry on for another twelve
months,” he said. “In spite of the
fact that I am not a Bolshevik, I do
not believe it is possible for any non
Bolshevik party or combination ever
to overthrow the Bolsheviki without
a very liberal allied assistance. But
the Bolsheviki have no right in Poland.
Should the allies take control from
the Bolsheviki and hand it over to
non-Bolshevik Russia, I question very
seriously whether these other parties
could keep peace among themselves
for more than a few months. The
thing that makes the Russian situation
so difficult is the fact that the Rus
sian peasant and the Russian work
man will not fulfill his usual obliga
tions, or carry on his work. He is
lazy, selfish, and refuses to espouse
the cause of either the Bolsheviki or
the non-Bolsheviki. I know this to be
true in the conflict between the Bol
sheviki and Czecho-Slovaks along the
Volga, and I have abundant evidence
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to Inspire we to believe that this is
true all over Russia.
“The intelligentsia and bourgeois
are totally incapable of doing anything
against the Bolshevik power. They
take it out in talk and abuse. Person
ally they are fine people, and my Rus
sian friends are all numbered among
them, but patriotism and nationalism
with them are words which have not
the connotation which we attach to
them. I met one man in my fifteen
months in Russia who seemed to have
a suspicion of what these words mean.
They are learning now but learning
very slowly.
"It seems as if the capable and ef
ficient Russian woman will have to
stem the flood of disorder and compel
this Russian tumult and chaos to take
on order and power. It is there. It
will come. But it will come slowly
and only after the heart of Russia is
tortured by the tragedy of its present
situation, which it has not yet fully
begun to realize. Today and tomorrow
morning it is theatricals—the outpour
ing of the native dramatic instinct of
the Russian; but tomorrow noon will
begin the serious, Bober reality to
which we can build an international
structure.”
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FAME OF HI
MILITARISTS
SOONWANES
MUNICH, Feb 1 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—An example
of the effect of the revolution upon
the fame of German military celebrit
ies is afforded in the fact that the
retirement of two well known gener
als, Kraff von Dellmensingen and
Count Bothmer, apparently caused not
even a ripple of public consciousness.
With scarcely a word of requiem these
two formerly famous army leaders,
both Bavarians, slipped into retire
ment and apparent oblivion. Even the
monarchical papers announced their
action only in small type paragraphs.
General Krafft formerly was chief
of the Bavarian general staff and
afterward until tfie end of the war,
leader of one of Germany’s most fa
mous military units, the Bavarian Al
pine corps. His corps probably saw
as much heavy fighting as any in the
German army. After serving as chief
of staff to Crown Prince Rupprecht,
General Krafft led his corps through
the battles against the Italians, Serbs,
Rumanians, in Macedonia and at
many points on the western front, in
cluding Verdun. General Krafft came
into conflict with the new government
soon after the revolution, which prob
ably is one reason for his retirement.
General Count Bothmer was the
only Bavarian other than the Crown
Prince Rupprecht and Prince Leopold
to lead a whole army. He had retired
in 1909 but was recalled to active serv
ice for the war and was given com
mand of an army corps in the Linsin
gen army and with it stormed Zwinin,
the Russian position on the Stryi
river. As a reward for his success he re
ceived command of the southern army
and was assigned to cover Galicia,
which he protected against numer
ous Russian assaults. It was his
army that finally drove the Russians
out of Galicia in the summer of 1917.
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