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breaking out of hostilities in the Balkans, and went at once to offer his services to his mother country, Greece. He was accepted, enlisted in the regular army, and after fifteen days of preliminary military training, was sent to the front.“His first time under fire was atJanina, where the Greeks and allies• •besieged the city for two months, and finally captured it with 3 3,000 prisoners. The final attack was made at 4 o’clock in the morning, and after twenty-four hours of bloody battle the Turks were driven from the city.To Salonica The division to which Booziotes belonged then moved to . Salonica, where another period of hardship awaited them. The relations between the allies were, becoming strained, and soon afterward the warbetween the Bulgarians and Greeks»was declared.The next hard battle in which the young Wesleyan man engaged was at Killich, where a three days’ fight of the bloodiest kind was waged. The Bulgars had between 120,000 and 125,000 men, while the Greeks had 13 5,000. The division to which the Bloomingtonian belonged stormed a height which was defended by 2 4,-000 infantry and 24 guns. They captured it after a fierce struggle.The Bulgarians “ran like ducks” as*Booziotes expresses it.The Pass of Tzuma. “Perhaps the hardest battle of allin which he took part was at the Pass of Tzuma, where for three days theGreeks fought without food. They*finally won, after being reinforced from the right wing.Tells of Atrocities “Mr. Booziotes tells the most harrowing tales of the atrocities committed by the Bulgarians. They hacked and mutilated their prisoners in the most frightful manner, picking out their eyes, cutting off their hands, noses and ears, and in some cases at last digging a hole in their breasts and plucking out the heart. Booziotes had a young comrade who went from Minneapolis who met this ter^ rible fate at the hands of the Bulgarians.Mr. Booziotes will at once re-entei the Wesleyan and resume the paths of peace.”
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Illinois Wesleyan Argus
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, Mar 11, 1914
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