The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A couple of European dispatches announce
that a number OF Armenian peasants at Alatiles
who failed to pay their taxes were burned alive
by Turkish Zaplehs and that the authorities OF
TrebiZond have sent paratfine TO Derslm Tor the
purpose of firing dense forest which is likely TO
serve as a refuge for Armenians if pursued by
Turkish troops. If these tidings are true the
feroeious irrec!aimable Turk is re-enacting the
Bulgarian atrocities, and may only be brought TO
his senses by good sound drubbing. The
treaty OF Berlin guaranteed the Armenians secu-
rity from persecution, but if this guarantee is
flagrantly violated Russia may be expected TO
take advantage of her opportunity. Tie reports
may be purp0sely exaggerated, but when one
ponders over the revolving crueltIes OF the
Turks In Bulgaria the impulse of the moment
is 10 give them credence. In suDpressing the
Bulgarian instruction of 1876 the Turkish au-
thorities were guilty of atrocities which have no
parallel in modern lines In the provinces OF
Phlppopolis, Slivno, TirnOva and the neighbor-
ing Fart of the province of Sophia, seventy-nine
villages and towns, many OF them Of from 5000
10 10000 inhabitants, were wholly or partially
burned and very many others pillaged. AT least
5000 houses were burned and $4,000 persons
left without shelter. Property worth 500.
100000 was either destroyed or carried away.
Fifteen thousand persons were killed and many
were thrown into loaGhsOme prisons, where they
died from starvation. Iwo-thirds OF the slain
were women and children. This is a sample of
the oppression suffered by these people for over
four centuries.
Some Of the most sensational reports regarding
the Behring Sea controversy and Britain's deter
minaton TO forcibly prevent further seizures
have bad their origin in Canada. TWAS but
few days ago represented that she was assem-
bling strong feet at Esquimalt, and that the
Amphion was out in the Straits OF Fuca daily
CHI off bOta nd hnl bu ha ron tn uu bar
men the benefit of target practice The Toronto
Empire, commenting on such exaggerated re-
ports, declares:
The sensational stories current in Behring Sea
matters may be credited largely to unreliable
respondents. International affairs of this sort
always a delicate matter, and ii is impossible to
avoid the conclusion that utter lack of principle
is ut the bottom OF the false stories retaied in order
to stir Up angry feelings among our neighDOrs ana
nulIify the peaceful labors of diplomacy We would
be glad think that no Canadians were response
bic for these false newspaper dispatches and that
they were paImed off upon the United States pub
lie through the medium OF home manufacture, but
the facts do not warrant any such conclusion. Let
those who take advantage OF their privileges to Cir
culate reports injurious to this country at grave
crisis seriously reflect upon the enormity Of their
ofeuse, and let them remember that there is some
thing essentially mean and dshonorable in these at
tempts disturb the peaceful solution of national
difficulties.
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