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Show grkksarTI OFFENDE 1 Story of Alleged Barb V M ities of Greek Soldie A ll Investigated Paris, March 8. The attention of Prince Nicolas of Greece, military 1 governor of Salonika, having been 1 drawn to a passage in a book of 1 Pierre Lotl's, In which the author ll eays that officers of the French warship war-ship Bruix could testify to having seen Greek and Servian soldiers gougo out the eyes of Turkish prisoners, tho prince sent his chief staff officer, Ma- Jor Vlachopoulo. on board the Bruix with a copy of the book to show Captain Cap-tain Delago. The captain has now written to Prince Nicolas to say that he submit- 1 ted the statement in Loti's booktev- his officers. All were unanimous in characterizing it as gratuitous, and declared emphatically that nothlntr that they had said or written could 11 58 possibly be taken as authorizing Lotl fl 8S to cite their testimony for facts of 1H 05 such a nature, which had never como 9 9 within their experience. Captain Delagc added that he had jiS drawn the attention of the Minister of Marine to the way In which his offi- jg cer's names had been invoked with- 1 I out their consent or knowledge, and m asked him to request Loti to suppress J I the statement in question. m 91 |