Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... D.--THE ACTION OF THE GREEKS I. The Great Massacres ON the 13th November, 1904, towards half-past ten in the evening, a Greek band of from seventy to eighty men, commanded by Ephtimios Caralivanos and Scotidi, entered the Bulgarian village of Zelenitchd, caza of Florina, and attacked the house of Trifon Goteff, where a marriage was being celebrated, and where a large number of relatives and friends of the young couple were assembled. Having surrounded the house, the aggressors began to fire on those present, not one of whom was armed; there were thirteen killed and five wounded. Here are the names of the unhappy victims: Killed Stolan Goteff, forty years old. His son Grigor, twenty. Dossi V. Stolcoff, forty. His son Vladimir, thirteen. Mikhall D. Putcheff, thirty. Lambro Kostoff, twenty-one. Arghyr Tzandiloff, forty. His daughter, ten. Dore" V. Ulemadoff, forty-five. Hussein Abdul-Kerim, fifty. Lazo G. Kostovitchine, twenty. Pando Metchkaroff, forty. Depa Lazova, fifty. Wounded Ali Bey. Gheorghi Dimitroff. Lazo Vatzanoff. Gheorghi D. Pudjoff. Slave" Kostoff. After this heroic exploit, the band fled, without being pursued by the authorities. It should be noticed that the mudir (under-prefect) of Nevestka, which is half an hour's distance from Zelenitche DEGREES and where two hundred and fifty regular soldiers are quartered, was immediately informed of the outrage; but he did not see it his duty to put himself about, nor even to send a soldier or a gendarme to the spot. The vali of Monastir declared to the consuls that the affair of Zelenitche had come about in consequence of a quarrel between Bulgarians, and that there had been no aggression on the part of the Greeks. This version might have obtained credence if the consuls of Austria-Hungary...
