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Show BRUTAL BULGARS Word icomes that the American Bed Cross hospital at Monastir has been looted by the Bulgars and a large quau tjty of flour seized The Bulgarian of ficer declared his troops needed the flour so he took it and left the women and children of Monastir to starve Doctor Forbes, the Amenean in. charge of the hospital protested against the seizure of the store of flour ajid waa brutally struck by the officer in question with the fiat of his sword An Amenean woman present took a snapshot of the high handed outrage and was roughly handled in consequence her camera be I ing destroyed in the melee Just now the brutal Bulgarians are on top of the heap and are inclined to boast or their prowess but the time may soon come when the country w 11 meet the fate of Belgium Poland and Serbia in which case they w 11 look in vain for a ccor and sympathy in the United States During the first Balkan war the Turks, who had been charged with atrocities aga nst the Bulgarians and other ens m es acc sed the Bulgarians of atroci ties The Turks were not content to let the matter drop and after the war appealed ap-pealed to the world to nvestigate A Commission beaded b P erre lot the Fren h nrter eondieted an inq rj and made a report fullv s bstaut at ng the Turk sh harges As a result a Bulgn an ar v officer ga ned fleet ng noto re for 1 nself Ij challcng ng lot to a duel s a Irench na al offi er I ot n ght have ac epted the hallenge w tho t criticism from his amtoc ates b t he showe 1 h good sense h ref s i g |