Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-09 | Page 1 | Turks Act like Fiends

I TURKS ACT I LIKEFIENDS I lgers Are Massacred I J Women Assaulted, at; Houses Burned. 1 Constantinople, Dec. 9. Letters of a flltt late date received from Gnlllpoli re-Jl re-Jl It port terrible excesses by tbe Turk- t lsh troops in that district. The tcle-W tcle-W i orilPih lnQS havIn been cut bevond Ir W ' ?a,Ii,.po11 and tho railitary authorities, K m h,v,d,nB tbe Christian villages responds respon-ds 3 slblo, ordered a detachment of troops g 1 1 to punish tho residents. 3 1 1 Tho troops burned the houses, held I 1 1 many of the villagers for ransom, J 1 1 massacred those who refused to pay, 1 I I a8.saulted tbo women and carried on fi f 'n?le3ale Pllagc The villages of ?j I If IaKara, Keshen, Karadjali, Aloali, 1 1, Grabunar and Examlll were practi- 1 1 caliy destroyed Turkish reinforce-B reinforce-B I ments from Asia Minor continue to S 1 1 arrive at Gallipoll. 11 xuThe authrltles at Janina report JJI that 18 battalions, comprising the M J regiments of the Monastlr army, have i reached there with artillery iyid am- I munition, thus strengthening the B Turkish position at that important 9 jg Albanian town. v re "