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Show MANY SERBIAN GIRLS PLACED IN HAREMS Torn From Their Villages and Taken First to Bulgaria and Then to Constantinople. By International News Service. LONDON, Sept. 8. "Our young girls, who would have been the mothers of our J race in a new world of peace, are being ; taken by force by the enemy in great numbers and sent to the Turkish har- ems." ; In these words M. Pasitch, prime min- ister of Serbia, told while lie re recently of the culminating' horror perpetrated on i the Serbian people. "It Is impossible," he said, "to estimate with any exactitude the number of our young women thus sent to slavery, but we have plenty of evidence tnat it has been going on for about sixteen months, and tliat it has been- done on a wholesale scale. "Some girls thus torn from our Serbian villages are. taken Hist to Bulgaria and then sent to the harems of Constantinople. Others are sent to various centers of 'civilization' in Asia Minor. Abduction, rapine and pillage have been carried out with such thoroughness that whole villages vil-lages no longer exist. "We have received some of our information in-formation from prisoners whom we have captured on the Saloniki front. They give horrible evidence of the traffic in girls which is being carried on by the Turks and Bulgarians. W- have obtained further fur-ther information, including that of a schoolmaster living in one of the villages occupied by the ctipmy. who has managed to get some evidence through in spite of the Bulgarians. "It is most difficult to do anything effective ef-fective to rescue any of these girls from the clutches of the Bulgarians and Turks. I am certain that Groat Britain, champion of the tortured and the oppressed, will do all she can after the war to restore to freedom and home as many as possible of these victims of cruelty and aggression." |