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Show TOO OTTH SALONIKI, Nov. 21. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) Greeks and Serbians in eastern Macedonia, who suffered pillage, persecution, deportation de-portation and murder at tho hands of Bulgurs before the armies of tho former for-mer King Ferdinand quit the country under the terms of an armistice, are exhibiting dissatisfaction over what they term the indulgence of the Entente En-tente Powers townrd Bulgaria. With fully 42,000 of their number deported, half of whom, it is believed, died under the hardships imposed upon them, the Macedonian natives are demanding, de-manding, according to a Reuter correspondent corre-spondent who toured the liberated territory, ter-ritory, that the Bulgarians bo crushed by traditional Balkan methods During the period of occupation the Bulgarians Bulgar-ians proved themselvoo "brutes and past masters In acts of spoliation and violence," said the correspondent, and when appeals for relief were made to the German authorities no attention was paid to them. Entering Macedonia as friends, under an understanding with former King Constantlne of Greece, tho Bulgarians Bul-garians established a region of terror which has been characterized as a. disgrace dis-grace to civilization. They imposed upon the population a rationing system sys-tem which resulted in the starvation of many, following with assessments of taxes and seizure of provisions to an extent that impoverished the country. Then followed wholesale executions and crimes against men, women and girls of the most revolting character, tho survivors declared. At Seres only S000 persons remain of 25,000 livingn J lift! the city when the Greeks turned cit a Wwm over to tho Bulgars. The populatlon'of MM l Domlr Ha,ssir fell from 12,000 to 2300 HI and in Kavala 3000 to 9000 persons m died of starvation alone in 1917, while alH In 1916 deaths numbered thirty a day, Hm largely from malnutrition. In those and HB smaller cities the Bulgars not only jySBJ confiscated the bulk of the foodstuffs, mm' but forced the ablcbodled Inhabitants Mu to work for the Invaders and carried mWt away vast quantities of agricultural IH Implements and furniture. I IDS Joy in Macedonia over the with- Hp drawal of the Bulgars is exhibited by IBJj inscriptions on many street corners EH! reading, "Christos Ancsti" (Christ Is IH Risen), while the Hellenic army of lib- ffiH eration is received everywhere with Hlfl enthusiastic acclaim. Wmg |