BULGARIAN OUTRAGES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3583, 5 January 1883, Page 4

BULGARIAN OUTRAGES.

Tho Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that he has received very disquieting intelligence concering the state of tilings in Bulgaria. The insecurity of life and property is increasing in an alarming manner, and the country is at present suffering from the worst ills of misgovcrnment. Although martial law has been in force for the last tAVO months, the state of affairs has by no means improved. Plunder and violence are daily perpetrated by Bulgarian brigands on the Turkish peasantry, and in the southern frontier districts by Turkish robber bands on the Bulgarian peasants. The military seldom, if ever, succeed in capturing the authors of these depredations, and everything tends to the conclusion that political motives lurk beneath the organised brigandage Avhich is at present the scourge of Bulgaria. At all events, competent observers attribute it to the deeply-rooted race hatred existing betAvecn the Bulgarian and Alussuhnan population. The folloAving instances, Avhich are of quite recent occurrence, tend to corroborate that AieAv:—"ln the middle of last month a band of fifteen Turks, Avell mounted and armed Avith Alartini and Winchester rifles, made their appearance at the country seat of a Greek merchant named Alystakides, situated at Galata, a few miles from "Varna. Their chief, accompanied by five of his men, on entering the house found the inmates at dinner. On ascertaining from AL Alystakides that he Avas of Greek nationality the intruders assured him he had nothing to fear from them, as they only molested the hateful Bulgarians. Thereupon they retired, taking nothing Avith them but a small quantity of provisions. The same mght they attacked and plundered several .Bulgarian cottages and a, caravan of Bulgarian peasants returning from Varna, where they had been to sell grain. The military despatched from A'arna in their pursuit didnot succeed in capturing any of them. Five Turkish peasants Avere arrested, but after being grossly ill-treated they Avere declared innocent and discharged. A few days later, on the Bazardjik high road, near a. village called Agemler, a band of twenty armed Bulgarians attacked a caraA'au of Turkish peasants, also returning from the A T arna corn market. Several of the latter offered resistance and were brutally beaten by the aggressors, who made off with a sum of GOOf. '"On the 11 th of last month a band of Bulgarians plundered the A'illage of Derventkcny, f chiefly inhabited by Turks, and not only took away all money and portable property they could lay hands on, but outraged the Avomcn and girls. A detachment of gendarmes, sent after them the next day, d'd not succeed in detecting a single one of them. Similar outrages occurred last month at Delyorman, near Galata. at Hallatehli, in the district of Varna, also in the neighborhood of Shuuihi, and at Eski Djounia and Dazardjik. The circumstance of so few arrests being effected is due to the loose manner in wh'ch martial hay is applied and the disgraceful partial l 'ty of Bulgarian authorities. The Turks, to Avhoni they afford no protection, arc compelled to resort to emigration. A. comparison between the number of Turkish emigrants in August and in September slioavs that the situation has become Averse Avithin tbe last five or six weeks. In August the figures Avere seA'cnty-eight men and thirty-five women and children, Avhercas in September they had increased to 373 men and 101 Avonien and children." These facts, the correspondent says, require no comment Tbey show plainly enough that the attempt to establish better government in Bulgaria has, so far, proved a failure, and that the population has gained nothing by emancipation from Turkish rule.