WATCH MACEDONIA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 690, 16 November 1933, Page 2

WATCH MACEDONIA

PROBABiILITY OF UPHEAYAL CONCERNING LOSS OF TERRITOflRY. euroPean stoPm centeb. London, Octoher 25. Watch Macedonia! Though superficially quiet, it is one of Europe's storm centres, with eiements Of uph'eaval everywhere, says; the special correspondent of the Daily Mail, who has been travelling in Bulgaria witli members of a Macedonian secret organisation. The Macedoriians are determined to rectify their frofttier, which is the result of the post-war division bisecting villages, farms and even cemeteries. The Yugo-slavs are determined to retain it. The desper.adoes with whom he travelled, says the correspondent, are decent, humorous, courteous and hospitahle folk, btit "quick on the draw." Their iives are ctmstantly in danger. Their job is tb keep alive the spirit of independSence amorug; Mlacedonianis living under Yugo-slav rule, where they ate fo'rbidden to own churches ,and schools, and eveh to use their own language. The Macedonians, are continually crossing the frontier to cheer them iip and carry messages hetween divided families. The emissaries have a redl mian's joh. The frontier is heavily gaurded behind Ibarbed wirfe, maiitraps and pits. They are forced tp penetrate it where it cro'sses 500ft. gorges,- the tops of Wrhich are snow- . covered. They choose tlie darkest niglits, and lie hidden ih tiie daytime, constantly at risk of death. The revolutionaries are controlled by the' "Secret Three," whose idhritity is unknown exeept to their closest as'sociates. ■ Messages are often p'assed whilje the revolutionaries are splashinig ih communal salt baths which many villages possess, bwiiig tb the frequeney of the mineral springs. The org&ilsation is financed by a. levy which every Macedonian willingly pays.