Show PILLAGE AND BURN VILLAGES turks destroy possessions because they could not retain them athens an official dispatch from arta says the conduct of the turks in spirus was like that of men anxious to destroy their possession session because they could not retain them not only the bashi bazoukas but the turkish regulars engaged in the work of gostrue tion in all the territory evacuated one detachment und under er the orders of the janina chief of police pillaged and burned thary one villages in the janina district in the last few days in the Mala kassi district eleven villages were destroyed and the tha inhabitants took refuge in the eaves caves in the mountains in the neighborhood of janina alone there are women and children dying of hunger eighteen hundred destitute des titue christians have succeeded in reaching greek villages in the villages of Gl tista and donatt donati birge large numbers of peasants have been massacred after being tortured |