A MIRACLE IN THE EAST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 51, 5 July 1913, Page 4

A MIRACLE IN THE EAST.

"If anything could, be more startling," says Mr H. N. Brailsford in the Contemporary Review,. "than the rapidity with which the Balkan League destroyed the Turkish Empire in Europe, it would be the ease with which the Western peoples have adjusted themselves to the miracle. There has been no larger territorial change,' no biggei; historical event in Europe since the resurrection of Italy, and even that change was in some respects less momentous. But the really significant transformation is that the whole population of this broad region has acquired between last autumn and this spring a new mind and a new morality. • For the first time in six centuries the forbidden chimes will ring in the belfries of the church. For the first time since the Ottoman conquest, a man will reckon quite certainly of reaping what he sows. The wayfaring peasant will question no longer whether the man who approaches down the highway carries a revolve)' and a knife. Christian women will walk unescorted in the border towns, and peasants clare to build their cottages on the hillside and out on the plain, far beyond the crowded safety of the huddled village."