THE BALKAN WAR
THE BULGARIAN LOSSES. ©t'RESG TfflE WAR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 14, 11 p.m. Sofia, May 14. The (Official figures of the Bulgaria,, losses during the war are published. Tihey are as follows: . v KILLED. Officers ; 33 Man 29,711 f WOUNDED. Officers 90 Men...'. 52,550 .i MISSING. Officers and men ... 3,193 TBcttal .casualties... -85,57.7 ALLIES' [FALL >OUT. Athens, May 13. ICt iw semi-afneia'lly stated that though Greece intimated in April that she intended strengthening her occupation, at Leftero and elsewhere, and that Bulgaria had promised to withdraw, the latter had attacked the Greek artillery when they Tvere attempting to carry out the jfccn. •TURKEY'S BESME. TERRITORIAL GUARANTEES. - In a despatch to,the New York Evening Boat ifrom Constantinople on March 18 Mr Francis McCullagh wrote : In icomm'ittee circles here, echoes are iieara .of the report irecently published by a prominent Vienna ;organ to the effect that Turkey Is anxious that one of tlie terms of peace sliould 'be a guarantee by tlie great iP.owere :of the Test of tne (Dttojnan Empire, and especially of Anatolia And the Eastern provinces, for the space <£ thirty years. By "Eastern provinces" is apparently meant the provinces inhabited s>y Armenians, and covered by the sixty-first article of the Treaty of iierJin. Soon aiftex the cbauge 'of regime in 1908 "Young" Turkey expressed violent resentment at any question of iwr being beholden to .Europe for a territorial guarantee, which she styled the servitude «f the old regime. Austria settled the Bosnian basimess direct with toe iPorte, ' and Italy similarly concluded her peace with Turkey without iCurope*s hrtervtntion. But, by sending Hakki Paslu to , London, the committee showed a manifest intention of bringing about that veiy European intervention which they had . previously scorned, and thus evading the painful necessity of having to settle direct with the Balkan allies, who, united, certainly form a great Power in the Near East, as is shown by their recent achievements in the Balkan war. It is now clear that Hakki Pasha aims at reviving the doctrine of the integrity of Turkey, and the ; references to the "Eastern provinces" would point to a desire to pit Europe against Russia in any question that may, arise out of the chronic state of disorder from which the Armenians suffer in that part of Asia Ml«ior. •'i'hirty-five years ago Turkey, in leturn for.a guarantee of those provinces, undertook, by article 61 of the Treaty \ of Berlin, "to carry out the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the -Armenians" and "periodically to make known the steps taken to this effect to the Powers who will superintend their application." . TRAGIC HISTORY OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS. The tragic history of those provinces during the last thirty-five years shows that, instead of being improved and re formed, they have been the scene of retail or wholesale massacres and of terrible oppression at which, screened hehind the comfortable doctrine of the status quo, the great Powers in question have connived. That Europe should again, in any guise or form, guarantee the integrity of those provinces before Turkey has actually executed her thirty-five-year-old engagement in the matter would be criminal to the last degree and tantamount to a wilful connivance at a state of things which is a standing i'ikgrace to the age. Those unfortunate districts have fared no better under the Young Turkey regime than they had fared under Ahdul Hamid. Not to mention the butchery of some 15.000 Armenians at Adana in April, 1909, the history of the East Anatolian vilayets during the last four years Ims been one long monotonous story of ,m----re-lressed grievances such as the non restoration of lands from which the Araienians had been dispossessed by the and a weary tale of outrage, rapine and ■ t pillage, without any guarantee for bi'e, honor, or property. To guarantee a , status quo of this kind would be simply to perpetuate the crime committed thirty-five years ago when the sixteenth article of the Treaty of San Stefn.no was twncerted into the sixty-first of the Treaty of Berlir. Having induced Europe to guaranteo her integrity, Young Turkey would, like old Turkey, blandly settle down to misgovern those provinces, and she would resent as meddling in her internal affairs any complaints of the Powers, any lepresentatkms regarding misrule or massacre.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 302, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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716THE BALKAN WAR Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 302, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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