BULGARIAN WAR SPIRIT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 5

BULGARIAN WAR SPIRIT.

MILITARY PARTY'S POWER. FIGHTING PREFERRED TO RANSOM. ] Sofia) October 15. The military ■ party is getting the upper hand in Bulgaria. M. Malinotfj the Premier, states that if Europe exacts ransom as the prico of the independence of Bulgaria, Bulgaria will prefer to fight. RAILWAY SEIZURE. ] , SETTLEMENT MUST BE MADE. I London, October 15. Germany and Austria have intimated that Bulgaria must obtain the Porto's consent beforo negotiating with the Oriental Rail- j way Company, whoso line Bulgaria has seized. Germany and Austria add that recognition of Bulgaria's independence must be dependent on a satisfactory settlement of the company's claim. { WARNINC BY TURKEY. j MILITARY ACTIVITY AND COUNTER i MEASURES. "NO RESPONSIBILITY." j Constantinople, October 16. i The Porto, in a circular to Turkish Ambassadors abroad, regarding the military activity of' Bulgaria, reiterates Turkey's pacific intentions, but adds:— Should Bulgaria persist in her pre- t sent attitude, Turkey will be reluctantly compelled to take precautionary measures, and would decline 1 . to accept responsibility in the event of a conflict occurring. BRITISH "PILLAGINC." CYPRUS AND EGYPT—A FRENCH REPROACH. Paris, October 15. ; The journal "Le Temps" reproaches Eng- : land: for pillaging Turkey in the island of ; Cyprus and in Egypt. ' [Lord Beaconsfield's boast was' that he re- 1 turned from the Berlin Conferer.ee bringing : "Peace with honour," also the Island of Cyprus.- The Cyprus portion of his success ; has been much criticised! and Egypt is an old soro with the Paris press. Yet we have it on tlio authority of Mr. Foster Fraser that "the name of England stands high in the Balkans. The Turk remembers that when the Russians were at San Stefano it nas England ! that prevented them from entering Constantinople. To-day, when all the nations, except Germany, are worrying Turkey, and Austria ■ and Russia are greedy to gobblo up the Balkans, the Turks know that England, though meddlesome, has not territorial hunger.] , MURDER IN CONSTANTINOPLE. (Rec. October IG, 11.15 p.m.) Constantinoplo, October 16. < A crowd, mostly Kurds, murdered an 1 Ottoman Greek gardener at Constantinople, and almost beat to death a Turkish, woman for wishing to marry him. A policeman and somo soldiers under whose protection tho couple were placed have been punished owing to cowardice and lukewarinness shown by them in resisting the lynchers. THE MALINOFF MINISTRY. M. Malinoff, born in 1867, a native of Bessarabia, and a lawyer by profession, took office in Bulgaria last January" in succession .toVWr. Gudoll's Stambolovist party. Commenting at tho time on the Malinoff Government's prospects, tho Sofia correspondent of "The - Times" wroto: "The Democrats, or Karavelists, who now succeed to power, occupy a peculiar position among Bulgarian political parties. They are, perhaps, the most intellectual of tho various groups and the most honest; they profess high principles of. political rectitude,, and severely criticise tho methods of adminis-' (ration hitherto practised in this country. Recognising no mandate but the popular will, they announce their intention of holding absolutely free elections. Should they prove as good as their word, their rule will probably bo shlort-lived, as their numbers and organisation are scarcely such as to promiso them a victory at the polls. Their continuance in powor will, porhaps depend on tho measure of support which the Stambolovist party may bo disposed to accord thom. It seoms that an understanding has been arrived at between the parties with regard to _ the maintenance of certain legislative measures for the preservation'of "national discipline," which the Stambolovists have placed on the statute-book. This compact, and still more, perhaps, the presence in the Cabinet of two generals nominated by Prince Ferdinand, will tend to counteract any ultra-democratic tendencies to which the ne\v Ministry may show itself prone." The correspondent states that all the Bulgarian parties —with the exception of a few politicians in the Zaniovist camp—have abandoned the old'attitude of subserviency to the liberating Power, Russia.