WAR RUMOURS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1559, 1 October 1912, Page 5

WAR RUMOURS.

— ITALY AND RUSSIA MASSING TROOPS. STRONG NOTE TO TURKEYBALKAN SITUATION GRAVE. 1 By 'TcleeraDh—Press Association-Con yrizht (Hoc. September 30, 10.5 p.m.) Belgrade, September 30. It is rumoured in well-informed circles that a joint Note from tho Bulgarian and Servian Governments has been sent to Turkey demanding autonomy for Macedonia, and declaring that otherwise war will follow. With a viow to avoiding an undue sensation the Servian reserves are being called up in small numbers to rejoin their regiments on the Turco-Servian frontier. Bulgaria is reported to liavo asked Scrvia for fifty thousand men. The Servian Premier, M. Pasics, has stated in an interview that all Turkey's tontative reforms have been relegated to oblivion. The Servian Cabinet is inspired with the sincerest desire for peace, but this could only be obtained by granting autonomy to Macedonia. (Rec. September 30j 10.5 p.m.) Sofia, September 30. A number of regiments of cavalry ara entraining at Jamboli. BELLICOSE SENTIMENT, COUNT BERCHTOLD OPTIMISTIC. Vienna, September 29. Count Berchtold, Austrian Foreign Minister, delivered an optimistic speech to the Austrian Delegation concerning the outlook in the Balkans. Newspaper advices from the Balkans show, oa the other hand, that Turkey's modified plan of manoeuvres has not satisfiod Bulgarian feeling, and that bellicose sentiment prevails also in Belgrade, tho capital of Servia.

MONTENEGRO'S ATTITUDE, EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN' PEACE. Cetinje, September 29. King' Nicholas and the Government, in response to representations by the .Powers, have promised to do their utmost to maintain peace. They add that its preservation. depends in a larger degree on the Porte's attitude. ITALIAN RESERVES CALLED OUT. SUMMONING TO THE COLOURS. Rome, September 29. All the reservists of the year 1890 have been called out, also those of 1887 belonging to tho artillery, engineers, and medical army service. RUSSIAN MOBILISATION. ' " MERE TEST.".' St. Petersburg, September 29. A sensation has been caused in P.iland by tho mobilisation of seven army coips, with headquarters at Warsaw, Vilna, t nd Ivieff. The mobilisation is officially described as o mere test. It is added that training will continue until October (i. A TRAVELLER'S VIEWS. EXTRAORDINARY- TENSION. Sydney, September 30. - Professor Anderson Stuart has returned from a .visit to Europe. Ho says ho is convinced that an outbreak of war is inevitable. It is impossible to say whether it will be to-morrow or bo staved off for a few years. The state of apprehension existing is quite extraordinary. TURKISH RESERVISTS CALLED OUT. DIVISIONAL MANOEUVRES. (Rec. September 30, 10.5 p.m.) Constantinople, September 30. Instead of concentrating tho army at Adrianople, the Porto has resolved on divisional manoeuvres in various Macedonian centres. The Mussulman reservists at Berat, and all classes of the Redifs at Adrianoplo have been called out. STORIES OF OUTRAGES. V ' 1 TENSION INCREASING IN BULGARIA. i " (Rec. September 30, 10.5 p.m.) Constantinople, September 30. Two bombs exploded in different centres in Salonika, ?ik' damaged buildings, but without any fatal results. A third bomb near a mosque did not explode. The continued assassinations of Bulgarians in Macedonia, together with the Macedonian refugees' stories of Turkish cruelties, is increasing the tension in Bulgaria. THE TERRORIST POLICY. OBJECTS OF THE BULGARIAN AGITATORS. The Sofia, correspondent of the "Retch" —who knows Bulgaria as.fow foreigners do—gives in his journal a highly interesting account of tho Macedonian terrorism. ( "The pogrom at Kochann," he says, "is not an accident. It is an exceptionally striking exhibition of a well-thought-out system, a necessary link in a welladapted policy, an event which has been brought about with . full consciousness. . . . To a civilised European this may sound incredible—such a cruel and bloodthirsty line of policy which pursued its object through wholesale pogroms on one's own people. Yet it is a fact. It is plainly avowed by the Macedonian terrorists themselves. It is known to every Bulgarian familiar with the precedents and the literature of the subject. The main line of argument is quite simple. Europo must that Turkey is savage and incorrigible, that she is in a chronic stato of anarchy, that she is absolutely ineap J able of securing to her Christian subjects the most elementary conditions of peaco and human existence. It is also necessary to fill the cup of Bulgaria's patience and compel her, even against her-will to close with Turkey in a mortal combat. Such is the task, the problem. How is it to bo solved? "Persuasion by words, appeals to humanity, to reason, to brotherly sentiment have been tried many times and proved fruitless. Moro energetic means are wanted. It is necessary to give an object-lesson,' a standing lesson, a startling' lesson admitting of no doubt. Tho bomb has not for its object a definite person, some specially dangerous or harmful representative of the hated regime. The bomb is thrown that it inay create a panic among the population, awaken the fanaticism of the Turkish mob, and throw it, maddened'by tear and lust for revenge, against, the nuthors nf the outrage, against those who protect them, who sympathise with them, on whoce be-, half t'hev act—in short, on the Bulgars. This' result can be predicted almost mathematically. The inob will begin to massacre the Christians, and the authorities will either consciously shut their eyes to the excesses nf the mob because they too have been seized with a fanatical'hatred or they mil not. be able to stop them in time because they are indolent, or incapable, or unorganised. Thus one way or another a pogrom will take place. 1 . "The news will then be carried to Billsarin. to Europe, where it will find a

'well-prepared ground. The details will causo a thrill of horror iu the hearts, will awaken a feeling of pity towards tlio victims, and one of hatred and contempt for tho assassins. Bulgaria will bo seized with a fever of excitement and lust for revenge which may prove too strong even for a peaceful and Turcophil Government, and European diplomacy will show its tooth and squeeze still tighter tho loop with which it is trying to strangle Turkey."