Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 53 | Bulgarians must Explain Massacres

BULGARIANS MUST EXPLAIN MASSACRES SALONIKI. Feb. 20. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Bulgarian government and people are much concerned con-cerned because of the large number of reported re-ported massacres of Serbians and others Ly Bulgaria ns during the war, now that they have been brought face to face with the facts: Premier Theodoroff declared that many of the reports were "unfortunately" true, but a greater number wre untrue. He epreFs-:d the belief that America and England would weigh the evidence for each side, a nd then give a n impartial verdict. He called attention to the report re-port of the Curnegie foundation in 1913, which, he said, found that r trocfties had been commuted by all the Balkan states, but that the heaviest pnrt could not be laid at the door of Bulgaria.