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miscreants, said : " Ce sont des sauvages. Ce nest point 

 fini rien nestfini" (They are savages. It is by no 

 means finished; nothing is finished). 



Atrocities committed by whatever side during the 

 second Balkan war were justly and accurately dis- 

 cussed by the Carnegie " Balkan Commission of 

 Inquiry" of 1913. Going over much of the same 

 ground at this time (six months later) I was able to 

 verify many of the statements and conclusions of the 

 commission. This consisted of the following: 



Austria: Dr. Josef Redlich, professor of. Public Law, University 



of Vienna. 

 France: Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, Senator; 



Justin Godart, jurist and member of Chamber of Deputies. 

 Germany: Dr. Walter Schiicking, 1 professor of Law, University 



of Marburg. 

 rreat Britain: Francis W. Hirst, editor of The Economist; 



Henry Noel Brailsford, journalist. 

 lussia: Dr. Paul Miliukov, professor in University of Moscow, 

 member of Duma. 

 ^nited States: Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, professor of Education, 

 Columbia University. 



Valentine Williams 2 defines a commission as "a 

 :ostly way of finding out what everybody knows." 



[e said to me: "The atrocities were not deliberate; Certain 

 the armies were out of range of the press, and a e * te nua ~ 

 rear of war had entirely cut off the soldiers from 

 mblic opinion." A Bulgarian officer is quoted as 

 saying: "The Greeks kill and we kill. We follow 



rith bitter hearts still more bitter orders!" On the 



Schiicking proceeded no farther than Belgrade, where he was turned back by 

 be false statement that the commission, finding its task impossible, had already 

 dispersed. 



2 See Chapter XLIV, page 514. 



