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Show American Who Served in Serb Forces Urges Punishment of Bulgarians for War Crimes BY HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) PARIS, July 9. "William Astor Drayton, Dray-ton, formerly of Charleston, S. C Ntw York., and then Scotland, who , was a lieutenant In the Serbian army, now Is in Paris, trying to In- i teres t the peace commission in the Bulgarian Bul-garian atrocities, lie wants to make sure, the guilty offenders are brought for trial before the allied tribunals, the same as the former kaiser and the other Germans accused, of war crimes. The Serbs already al-ready have drawn up a list of D'jOO BuI-gars BuI-gars guilty of criminal acts during the war. Lieutenant Drayton has seen Secretary Lansing and Mr. White, but he finds the American commission unable to help him because the United States was not at war against Bulgaria. Both Great Britain and Prance are apathetic over Bulgarian atrocities, although al-though French and British soldiers captures cap-tures In Macedonia were horribly tortured tor-tured and mistreated by the Bulbars. The Italians refuse to participate In i any measures against the B;lg;irjj owiul-I owiul-I to Kalian antipathy toward I Vie Sort's, I The sole support thut Lieutenant 1 'ray-tun 'ray-tun finds is from Rumanians unci C-rtekt. Lieutenant Dray ion, with the Hritlsi1 Co one i S. B. M;ij no and i he V Yt-nen Lieutenant V'.otnassux, formed an iiner-aliied iiner-aliied commiss'on f"r In vest tt-i Lion of Bulbar a t rod ties. Ti'.ey dutj up mafsa-cred mafsa-cred men. women and children, photographed photo-graphed t .to tortured, maimed and mistreated mis-treated chllluns. obtained a nias of documentary doc-umentary evidence, in the form of letters and photographs from the Bul'arianj after the arm i.s tire. Lieutenant Drayton sta tes the Perbs have no complain I against. German or Austrian troops who si ifiened the Bulbar Bul-bar armies, although, the evidence shows the Germans Incited the Bulgars to commit com-mit atrocities and never pruiested against wholesale s laughter. Lieutenant Dray I on says the Serbians are greatly wrought up and discouraged at the prospects that the Bulbars will escape es-cape in a compromise treaty through the disinterestedness of the big powers and they Insist on reparations and punishment punish-ment for the offenders. Faith In the league of nations will be shattered amog the little nations like Serbia and Human la unless the great powers frame a treaty against Bulgaria as drastic as the treaty with Germany. |