Show L GREEKS fREEKS RESENT I. I BULGARIAN ACTS 8 They Hold Mass Meeting to I Protest Against Inhuman Atrocities r- r LARGE RELIEF SUM RAISED I fr Funds Will Ik Bl Solicited 1 r. r the ilie State Stu and Remitted lo to Committee nt at Athene Ful Fully people crowded Into Inlo lie Hie GI Greek cJ church at al Fourth South and Fourth West est yesterday morning when p. p a n meeting was waR hold held for fOI the purpose of or considering the atrocities practiced h by Bulgarians upon GI Greeks els In eastern Many speaking English f people were among tl those e present 1 Archimandrites of or the Greek church Dr Peter PeterKa Kassinikos formerly of oC Boston and Ka s. Nicholas G G. general generl employment em em- agent for Cor Utah Greeks presided presided pre pre- sided at the tho meeting and took charge 1 of or the business transacted The conditions existing in Bulgaria j. j and 1111 Macedonia to which much attention atten aUtAn- tion lon iou has been called of oC late Inte through tc the press were reviewed and in vIgorous vigorous vigor vIgor- ous language denounced a as un-Chris- un Ian tan and Inhuman Patriotic appeals were ma made e to the assembled sons ons of oC Greece who io answered tred In loud cries of oC approval aJ Extracts of oC editorials from American newspapers were rea read and warm warmly I applauded The Greeks seem scent to feel that the AmEI American n people are ar art their friends s. s and that the they are alc ready to help In bringing about better bener conditions con con- In the European country Collection of II During the meeting a n collection of oC GOO was ma made c and committees were wc appointed to 10 gather contributions throughout hout the state All Al funds ret re received re- re t will wi be forwarded to a a central i r relief committee In Athens where they will wi be distributed among the 4 people who have suffered In the re recent re- re cent an and burnings i Mr rr yesterday ma made e the following statement Ever since Bulgaria gained her In Independence inS In- In j S dependence she has been a menace to toi i the Greeks within and around her borders bo Finding that the Greek Creek people peo peo- t pIe ile would not affiliate with her and Z become her dependents she has en endeavored endeavored en- en 4 to bring them Into subjection t b by terrorizing them For t twenty live wenty years ear the he Greeks Greel s In Macedonia have suffered at her han hands s Their homes have ha been burned their possessions J plundered and their wives an and chIldren children chil chIl- J dren murdered with them Appeal after appeal has been made to the H I. I Turkish government without avail Crul Cruelty of Bulgarians Bulgaria ii About two years ears ago aso the Greeks Creeks k In Macedonia took matters maters Into their hel own hands an and drove the Bulgarian J c outlaws from Crom the country countr This angered angert anger anger- t- t f ed the Bulgarian government and ever since she has ha been more cruel than before About a month ago a town ton to n In the county of eastern Roumelia was pillaged and 1 burned The Greeks there were either cither killed kled or 01 driven from Crom the coun coun- i i U try Penniless thc they made their wa way i Into lute Constantinople Athens an and other cities cites where the they are arc now flOW In danger I I of or death deth by starvation The collection tion of money we are making Is IB t to help these theR people people t In n all the history I have stu studied ld I II I If have not found Coun the account of oC ma massacres massar massa massa- r i cres and equal to some that i. i I I know personally to have o ha been in- in 1 upon m my ray countrymen b by the tho j. Ij Bulgarians We Ve arc are anxious that tha the United States and other governments take the matter mater up so that the atrocities atrocities ties may mY be stopped Our people there tes arc nrc among the tho best educated and arid most j i highly cultured an and they desire to pursue their business In peace Mr gave some statistics In relation to th the country countr affected by br bythe the long trouble truble between the thc Greeks Greel s and the Bulgarians showing that tha his people have been boen far Car more progressive In those parts have been the people of or Bulgaria Ho lie says gays that the they I r- r are arc taken from official findings and that he can vouch for or their correct correct- L ness nes In two states of Macedonia i where the total population Is there are Turks Bul- Bul V In the garlans and Greeks Greeks V V remaining parts of oC Macedonia where V the population is almost entirely V V Grecian there are more than V V people Greek schools number 73 I V z and d have havo a total enrollment enrolment of pupils V 0 of of while Bulgarian schools though they number 05 have an en- en o of only S pupils Inal In Tn V all European Turl Turkey ey there hero are al and students tu Greek t teachers V. V V not Including those of oC twenty high V V schools V |