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Show EASTERN MACEDONIA HAS SUFFERED MUCH Pillage, Persecution, Deportation and Murder at Hands of Bulgars, Is Complaint. SATjON'IKI, Oct. 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Greeks and Serbians in eastern Macedonia, who suffered suf-fered pillage, persecution, deportation and murd. r at the hands of Bulgars before the armies of the former King Ferdinand quit the country under the terms of an armistice, are exhibiting dissatisfaction over what they term the indulgence of the entente powers toward Bulgaria. With fullv 42,000 of their number deported, de-ported, half of whom, it is believed, died u ruler the hardships imposed upon tlu;m, the Macedonian natives are demanding, a cording to a Kcutcr correspondent wiio loured the liberated territory, that the Buliranr.ns be. crushed hy traditional Balkan methods. During the period of occupation the Bulgarians proved t hem-selves hem-selves "brutes and past, masters in acts of .spoliation and violence,"' said the correspondent, cor-respondent, and when appeals for relief werfi made to the German authorities no attention was paid to ihem. F-ntring Macedonia as friends, under an understanding with former King Constantino Con-stantino of Greece, the Bulgarians established estab-lished a reign of terror which has been characterized as a disgrace 1o civilisation. Thev imposed upon the population a rationing ra-tioning system which resulted in the starvation star-vation of many, following with assessments assess-ments of taxes and seizure of provisions to an extent that impoverished the country. coun-try. Then followed wholesale executions and crimes against men, women and girls of the most revolting character, the survivors survi-vors declared. At Seres only 5000 persons per-sons remain of 25.000 living in the city when the Greeks turned It over to the Bulgars. The population of Demlr His-sar His-sar fell from 12,000 to 21100 and in Kavaia sooO to 0000 persons died of starvation alone in 1!'17, whilo In 1J16 deaths numbered num-bered thirty a day, largely from malnutrition. malnu-trition. In these and smaller cities the Bulgars not only confiscated the bulk of the foodstuffs, iiuc forced the nhlobodied inhabitants to work for the invaders and carried away vast quantities of agricultural agricul-tural implements and furniture. Joy in Macedonia over the withdrawal of the Bulgars is exhibited by inscriptions inscrip-tions on many street corners reading, "Ohristns Anestf" (Christ b risen), while the Hellenic army of liberation is received re-ceived everywhere with enthusiastic acclaim, ac-claim, i i; act, so that another regiment can be formed. When war was declared the Idaho regiment, known as the Second Idaho, was mustered Into the federal service. ser-vice. In due course of time it entrained for Camp Greene, where Its companies were reassigned to engineer, machine gun and infantry units, so that the regiment lost Its identity. Expenses Heavy. This left the state without a regiment. It has no armed force now to meet internal in-ternal troubles. The last legislature failed to pass a law to accept the terms of the defense act, so feleral assistance could not be given to a new regiment if it were formed, and without it the regiment could not secure the financial support necessary neces-sary to make it a success. After the next, legislature adiourns It is hoped this stumbling block will be removed, and the state may then proceed to organize, the Third Idaho regiment. This work will be carried on under the direction of the new adjutant general to be appointed by Governor-elect Davis. The law requires the man appointed to this position must have held it before for one year. There are but two Republicans in the state now eligible. Major J. B. Burns, present assistant adjutant general, gen-eral, and A. At. Rowe, both of this city. When the- present biennium closes and the state makes a check on its bills payable pay-able and amount on hand, it will he found that the deficit is $10,000 or less for the operation of its government departments de-partments a sum smaller by several thousands than contained In deficiency bills placed before the last legislature. Some of the state departments have already al-ready exhausted their appropriations and will have to be maintained on deficiency warrants until the legislature can make an appropriation. Others will close the biennial period with a surplus to their credit. The expense of operating the stale government was heavy durfng the pa.t two years, owing to the high cost of ail supplies. State officials, however, are very well satisfied with the showing that has been made. While they have had lo reduce expenses in many ways, they believe be-lieve they were justified in doing so. The cost of maintaiing the slate council of defense will probably be less than 520.-flOO, 520.-flOO, which is small In comparison to the amounts other states have spent. Yer the Idaho state council is considered to have one of the nest . organizat ions for war work to be found in the union. |