The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1915. VILE WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 8 October 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1915. VILE WORK.

Lord Crewe’s recent reference jn the H (Hi sc ol Lords to the cynical indifferi;ncj' ol tj officialdom , ; to ; atrocities being daily...committed' by the; Turks jjpfyi tlie ■Chrislian.Aruieni bins ol Asia i Minor, induced a correspondent .of, jdie London Times to recall the fact that, this is by no meaps the. ~ j first occasion upon ( p'hieh German ofiicials have aided and tin* Turks iu similar abominations, and cites in- , 1 | . .I,o' ■ 11 5 • • I stances that had come under his per- ) sonal observation. In September, 1303, he says, the Bnlgi i inn population of Macedonia, alter a long spell * ol acute suffering, rose in revolt against the Turks. Being admirably organised, and bravely led, the comitadjis, or members of the Bulgarian Committee, obtained, at liitt. considerable success. The revolt began to assume most serious proportions. I be Sultan. Abdul Hamid. became 1 very, much alarmed. Telegrams pnnr- . e.d out from the Palace. The whole Turkish Army was mobilised. The local Comluanilei'-iu-Chief, (finer Rnshdi ’as|ia, ( was hastily recalled. I he local Governor-General cpiite obviously lost his nerve and head. The Inspector of tin* European Provinces, Hilmi Pasha, hurried to replace him. but failed to restore either confidence or order. The record of Bulgarian successes increased from day to day. At this" critical moment the Herman Emperor stepped iu to save the situation. Serving in the Great General Staff at Berlin was a Prussian officer. Captain von Goehen, who, .under De Wet, had fought against Britain throughout the South African War. and who therefore had first-hand knowledge of Lord Kitchener’s system of “drives.” Drives, said the Emperor to the Sultan, might solve the Macedonian problem, \ on Goehen, accordingly, was despatched al ones' ■ to the Turkish Army headquarters at Mmiustir. where, for all practical purposes, he assumed complete, command. .Drives-were duly organised, the Turkish soldiery being strengthened by ejArnants. or Albanian bashi-ha/onks, find the riffraff of Hie Turkish towns. Aon Goehen was successful. Eailing To catch the comitadjis, who remained in the forests and hills, he arranged to round up their less mobile relatives and friends instead. Villages were destroyed wholesale. Old men, women, and children were mercilessly slaughtered and in the most disgusting manner, it is, no wonder, with such memories before them, the Bulgarian peasantry are against lighting with these assassins against England and Russia, both of which countries have done (heir best to check the unspeakable Turk in his attempts to ravage every Balkan State that exists, A long history of petty internal slide, has. however, made each little principality jealous of the aspirations ol its neighbour and anything like union in l nrn out the common enemy is almost beyond the dreams of the most sanguine,. It, Is certain suicide in jim.v ease for the foolish ones who throw in their lot with the Tureo-H tin combination.

The Balkan problem of to-day remains a.s impossible of solution as any 'in the .1* past. But Bulgaria in her tolly, r duped by Herman wiles, is on the very r edge of ruin. f-- g