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Show TURKISH TROOPS MASSACRE THE CHRISTIANS IN THRACE Country Has Been Converted Into a Human Slaughter House Turks Murder Where Bulgars Spared. Constantinople. Trustworthy reports re-ports of appalling massacres and devastation de-vastation by Turkish irregular troops come from districts in Thrace which the Turks are reoccupying. The country coun-try about Malgara, northeast of Galli-polls, Galli-polls, according to reports, has been converted into a human slaughter house. The Bulgarians pillaged and burned the Moslem villages and massacred, mas-sacred, cheir inhabitants, and now the Turks are wreaking dreadful vengeance ven-geance on the Christian villages which the Bulgarians spared. The Turkish troops who first advanced ad-vanced committed only a few murders. mur-ders. The Turkish troops and their regulars who followed, however, worked their will on the Christians of Malgara and eighteen villages in the neighborhood. The Turkish government, realizing the need of the good opinion of the European powers at this time, issued strict orders to all officers to avoid reprisals by their troops, but they are unable to restrain the men, who were inflamed 'by the stories of Bulgarian Bul-garian .savagery upon Musselmen. |