Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 30 | Bulgars Brutal toward Serbians

BULGARS BRUTAL TOWARD SERBIANS LONDON", Dec. - 21. Serbian soldiers and civilians interned by the Bulgarians suffered brutal treatment, according to a statement made to the Serbian consul at Saloniki and forwarded here by a British officer who was taken prisoner by the Bulgarians and interned in Bulgaria.. Bul-garia.. . "The treatment of Serbian soldiers and internpd civilians, men and women alike, in Rascurjik was bad and brutal in the extreme." the officer is reported as saying. say-ing. "Ncer before nor since have 1 seen barracks so bad. 1 escaped toward tiie end of July, but was recaptured and confined in a mosque with 130 Serbs employed em-ployed on the roads. Here conditions were truly appalling and for the first time in my life 1 saw real misery. T rim mire not one of Ihose J.'JO poor wretches is alive today. The commandant command-ant was a certain captain in the engi-neers engi-neers and a brute of the worst kind." !