The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-24 00:00:00

THE TROUBLE IN THE EAST.

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TIIE minds and voices of public men will be
occupied during he Eastertide recess quite
as much, it seems likely, with matters per-
taining to the trouble in Easten Europe
with the perplexing problems of Irish Gov-
ernment and Irish Land Purchase. Just
when everyone was thinking that at last the
Balkan difficulty had been ended, and Prince
Alexander bad entered upon the rule of his
dominion,' a new element of disquiet is de-
veloped by the belligerent attitude of the
Hellenic Government towards the Great
Powers. So grave has the situation become
that as we write Lord Rosebery has re-
solved not to leave London for an Easter
respite from departmental duty, but will
remain in close attendance at the Foreign
Office until matters assume a more tranquil
phase. Remonstrance seems to have little
effect upon Greece, which dares to oppose
its puny will against the might of the com-
bined Powers. Such ridiculous action would
only provoke a smile were not the interests
of international peace involved. The defiant
demeanour of the dominant party in the
Greek Government is, however, alarming,
when we consider its possible outcome. In-
stead of bowing to the wiser will of all
Europe, and disarming herself, Greece stands
menacingly towards Turkey, like a fighting
cock eager for the fray. Whatever wild
step the War Minister is prepared to take,
the Greek Chamber will support. Backed
up thus, he looks upon his little stock of
national fighting strength, and his limited
store of national money, and imagines, vain
.statesman-bantam as he is, that he is strong
enough to hold his own against all corners.
Ere long his over-weening confidence may
be rudely dispelled, especially if he count
upon the aid of England in the troublcs
which would inevitably follow upon the
.con-
tinuance of such a policy of provocation r s
he now exhibits. England has had enough
of interfering in the quarrels of other coun-
tries. She will not, we hope and believe,
lightly again take up the championship of
this or that friendly state. If a grave in-
justice were threatened, our high principle
as a nation might induce us to interpose on
the side of right, but we shall never again,
we think, be found standing side by side
through good or ill action with anothei
Power, great or minor, simply on the ground
of old association. England may love little
what is unlovable in Turkey but because of
that she will not lift her strength in the in-
torest of Turkey's enemy; and Greece will
be very unwise if she imagines because
Britain admires her past action in the main,
and wishes her well, English men and Eng-
lish money will be forthcoming to fight
Hellenic battles, without question as to their
justice. There is very little likelihood,
happily, that Britain's voice will not be in
harmony with the European concert in the
, matter. ln stupidly defying the Powers,
.therefore Greece is flying in the face of Ler
old friend England—a line of movement
which bids fair to end badly for Greece.
The Collective Note calling upon Greece to
disarm has been deliberately disregarded.
Greece sets herself to parley with the Powers,
and states that, because in the Hellenic
opinion the union of Bulgaria and Eastern
Roumelia is an infringement of the Treaty
of Berlin, Greece refuses to recognise any
right of interference on the part of the
Powers who are signatories to the treaty.
This is in effect the present attitude of
Greece, and :a sufficiently self-conscious one
for so comparatively diminutive a Power,
truly. Every day brings us intelligence ot
some new Greek warlike display. Thus we
hear that fresh classes of the reserve are to
be called out, and that the Minister for War
has left Athens with a full staff for the
Thessalian frontier. Indeed the new loan
seems to be likely to be largely devoted to
military purposes. The reinforcement now
projected would bring up the Greek forces
at the front to something over a hundred
thousand men ; and all the world knows
that when an army is massed in such nrm-
hers in sight of foreign troops it is very
difficult to bold in check the dogs of grim
war. The maintenance of this threatening
policy taxes Greece heavily, but the fighting
enthusiasm of the Greeks seems so great
that at present they do not pause to count
the cost; and they see with satisfaction to
what straits they reduce their impoverished
neighbour State. But if Turkey's exchequer
is at its last ebb, the army of the Porte is far
superior to the raw levies of badly-equipped
men that Greece can place in the field.
Turkey has two hundred thousand disci-
plined troops at her disposal, and if spurred
too far by these senseless threats of invasion
constantly being made by Greece, she may
one day be roused to throw off her lethargy
and love of quietude, and, disregarding the
consequent finencial drain, strike such a
vigorous blow at tie Greeks that it could
not :but be decisive. In that case if the
Hellenic Government have beforehand r,),i :n-
-oted Greece by senseless bra gadocio from
the rest of Europe, it will go hardly:with
her. All her brilliant past and fiery patriot-
ism will be wiped out in the fatal and
suicidal stroke. If after all her endurance,
Turkey ultimately be goaded to strike, her
action will be deemed jestifiable, and the
Powers will stand neutral, unfavourable
though they may be to Turkey. At such a
time the right Would, we doubt not, to up.
held without favour, Greece is acting very
unwisely for her own future's sake, in this
matter; and if she does not have heed to
the mandate of common sense and common
fairness she will find ere long that instead of
sapping and weakening Turkey for her own
ends only by her irritating action, she is
weaving a network of trouble in Eastrn
Europe, which will last for many and meny
a year to come, from which inimeasural le
complications and much bloodshed will arise,
and which will end in greatly decreasing
the status of the King of the Hellenes
among the nations.

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COMMENTS ON 'CURRENT TOPICS
FLOOD and fire have been busy in the anti-
Easter days in widelv sundered spots. In
he Galician town of Stry some 'IWO people
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been great also, sad to say ; children in
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,m 1 old folk and invalids perished in their
)'Yds. In a few hours three-fourths of the
little wood-built town was in ashes. Sparks
Olew in the strong spring wind to a distance
of three miles and the smell of the burning
extended to doable that distance. The con-
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ation of the charitable. The other ex-
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water, has wrought dire devastation out in
Canada. Over three million dollars damage
has been done at Montreal by the floods,
much of the town being under water. Hotel,
shops, and newspaper offices have suffered
severely ; and an aqueous 'expanse of more
than 20 miles extent stretches across the
level land on the United States side of the
town. The overflow is fully six feet higher
than that which occurred during the mem-
orable flood of 1861. It is feared that the
death record will be a mighty heavy one,
and great distress is already reported. When
one thinks of these calamities, and of the
terrible cyclone jwhich has occurred this
week in Minnesota, killing seventy-four
people and injuring upwards of two hundred
one cannot but be thankful that our lines
have fallen in the pleasanter places of
Britain, whore wood dwellings are a rarity,
refit floods an exception, and cyclones are
Unknown.

• - •
Pimlico mystery remains a mystery
still, and will in all probability never now
be unravelled for public satisfaction. There
can be no question as to the justice of the
juries finding, "not guilty," for on the evi-
dence no clear case was establishad for the
Crown, and in accordance with righteous
precedent, the accused must be given the
benefit of the doubt. The address of the ,
;earned counsel for the prisoner was a piece
, of lofty-toned forenisc eloquence, rand able
in the extreme, but we do not think it would
have sufficed to bring about the acquittal of
Adelaide Baatlett on the terrible charge al-
leged against her. The theory advanced by
tile Judge himself seems to have weighed
much with the jury. We gather from a
newspaper letter of the foreman that eleven
of the jury- were in favour of a verdict of
"Not Guilty," with the addendum "we are
of opinion that, considering the state of
health Mr. Bartlett was in, or imagined he
was in, and the state of mind the evidence
showed him to be in, he administered the
chloroform to himself with the view of ob-
taining sleep or committing suicide." The
twelfth juryman would only consent to a
verdict in the form in which it was given,
and so, to save a new trial this jury found
as they did. It is perfectly legitimate for
them to do so; but we object to jurymen
writing letters to the papers disclosing the
secrets of the consulting-room just as we
should do to others engaged in a case re-
discussing its merits after the verdict. It is
r matter tb be discouraged, or the fiat of tilt
Itw will lose weight in the public esteem.
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JUSTICE —WILLS said his say, and that in a
tuannee most commendable, at the Old
Kailey, about unseemly behaviour in court
hi the Bartlett case, and we trust it is not
too mucd to hope that disoTaceful scenes
will not again occur in the halls of justice.
This morbid interest in prominet figures in
causes celebres, which leads badly-ballasted
people to disregard the sense of propriety,
has been evidenced in another form in con-
nection with this Pimlico case. We are
told that Mrs. Bartlett, after having received
shoals of threatening anonymous letters,
pissed from the state of unpopular con-
tumely to that of the heroine. Latterly, as
the slow drama of justice proceeded, she, it
is said, received offers of marriage from as
many as seventeen separate persons, includ-
ing an ex-M.P., a foreign marquis, three
doctors, and a clergyman of the Establish-
ment. These were, in every case, condi-
tional, of course, upon the acquittal of the
culprit. One would imagine, however, that
Adelaide Bartlett's memories of her first
marital experience will be so fraught with
sorrow that she will not hastily lay aside her
mourning waeds.

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