Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1944 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

150 Greeks Lo

chad | in Barn |

"And Burned Alive by Nazis

{ . By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent ATHENS, Nov. 24.--Weéeks must pass before the needs of snows |: swept mountain .villages—blackened by Italian and German torches, where refugees crouch. within roofless walls—can be known, much less supplied, at the present slow rate of distribution of supplias—70 per:

cent American,

But pathfinder observers ig jeeps, who circumvent blown bridges and |?

mined roads to reach at least the most accessible villages, return with stories of horrors which out-Dis- % tomo Distomo Among the most terribly are-the villages of Mesovouni and Pyrgos, which lie in the Kozani-| Florina gi ap, through which the! armored tail of Hitler's last column on Greece's| mainland recent- | ly withdrew to Yugoslavia, Like many ‘another community, Mesovouni has been denuded of grown men by the war But Mesovouni's men lie in graves nearby. One hundred and fifty were led into a field by the Germans, ordered to kneel, and methodfcally machine gunned No males remain excépt boys of 16 or under, and very old: men Mesovouni has been burned three times, - |

30 Burned Alive

In April, when Russian pressure from the east, and Ttaly-based American and British planes were making Balkan communications un-! tenable, Col. Gen. Alexander Lohr, | anticipating the withdrawal, deter-| mined to uproot the E. L. A. 8. guerrillas in the strategic gap. One hundred twenty women and | chilrden were killed in a surprise raid. Thirty were burned alive in a single dwelling. Thirty more were waylaid on the road and machinegunned and the lMving and dead thrown on the fire. Mrs, Elly AE, mother of Greete's- nursing corps, | in her capacity of Greece's delegate with the Swiss and Swedish Red Cross, visited both villages, states

Mr. Weller

1150 inhabitants have been killed. Pyrgos ranks with Distomo and Kalavryta as among the hardest hit of Greece's 1000-0odd martyred villages. The 'Schutzstaflel attacked the village, which has about the same normal population as Distomo— 2060—and killed 303, or 73 more than the Distomo figure, as confirmed on the spot by. this writer.

‘Women, Children Killed

The March 18 8. 8. massacre was Undertaken because E. L. A. S guerrillas had passed through the village and in some cases, despite the inhabitants’ entreaties, spent the night there. . The day they entered the town the Schutzstaffel merely sprayed the dwellers with general fire. The next day they caught 05 women and children trying to escape and killed them all, One hundred forty more were herded into a bam filled with inflammable hay. One German soldier took pity on Sophia Yankov Agryriou, who had just given birth to twins, and placed her children and husband ina car. But as they were sneaking out of the village they met another German patrol which forced them to return to Pyrgos, where they were shut up in the barn with others. © Then the barn was ig-

| was

Ito enable

| Marshall P. Crabill of the Indian-| gray-haired | apolis

at noon Tuesday at the Warren | that ‘a total of 280 of Mesovouni's| hotel.

nited and all were burned to

death,

The only two men found were| §

tree in the village square,

Some ‘women, who were shot, first were locked in the church, then were visited by 8. 8S. men. Despairing inscriptions later found on the .walls, Indicated that these

stricken hanged with telephone wire to a

wonien had been violated before be-|

ing shot. School Mistress Anastasia Souli | aecused by’. the Germans of| collected woolen underwear the guerrillas to endure] the wintry mountains, After refusing either to have her eyes] bound, or to dig her own grave, she was shot Three women and five children, | the latter all belonging to 45-year-| old Kanl Koshindcv, were led aside! and used as living targets for mortar! practice, Only Koshindov survived, and he bad 14 wounds. All cripples and men ant! women | over 60 years of age were herded | into houses adjacent to the burning barn, which were likewise ignited. All perished. Fifteen women and! children, among those who fled into the snowheld mountains, died f hunger. According to Mrs. Adossides, all of| the Pyrgos corpses were left unburied until mid-June by order of {the German. local command.

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