Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-27
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4 CRISIS INEVITABLE.
Macedonia. to Figure as the Key
 note of an Uprising
Which Will Shake the Earth From Center to Cir
 conference.

LONDON, Jan. 26.-If certain liberal newspapers, which profess to be inspired, are expressing the genuine desire of the government, the eastern question is about to be revived in in it's most acute form. The true meaning of the recent persistent Armenian agitation is now becoming dis closed in the bold ssertion of these jour nals that the tims is ripe for the ejectment of the Turks from the European fold. Viewing the subject in this light the present anti-Turkish cruisade very clearly possesses greater practical sig nificance than was attached to the Bulga- rian atrocities, which yielded so much po- litical capital to Mir. Gladstone nearly twenty years ago. The excit ement of that period was fomented by the liber- embarrassing the government of Earl Beacousfied, and the coming move- ment is undoubtedly associated with pol icy contemplating An Anglo Russian en- tente. At any rate it appears to be directed toward preparing the public mind for some decided information of the grand reversal of the English policy in the east.
 The key 10 the eastern question is not now Armenia, but Macedonia. AS under stood it is in Macedonia that lines are laid shall involve Bulgaria, Servia and Greece in an active dispute for division of the territory of Turkey in Europe, finally lead- ing the great powers to intervene.
 According to an article In the Speaker, which is supposed to disseminate the ideas of the liberal ministry, the Macedonian question will shortly be burning one, and its solution will finally dispose of the rule of Islam in Europe. How much of Islam s domination is to remain 1n the depend upon the action of the com mander Of the faithful toward Armenia. The correspondent of the same paper writes, upon what he asserts is unquestion. able authority, that the sultan is aware of the fact that European statesmen are ols- cussing the question as to the manner ln which the tearitory of the porte in Europe, including Constantinople, is to be parti- toned among the powers, together With the oft-repeated question, whether Austria shall be allowed 10 come 10 Salonica.
 He is also aware according to this au- thority that there is revival of the ques- tions as to how much of Macedonia and Thrace shall be given to Bulgaria, what proportion of Alb nia is to go to Servia and what part shall iall into the possession of Greece. These are old questions and doubtless the sultan so regards them, but ail the same he is compelled to be alert even when "chestnuto is sprung upon him, for he can never tell whether or not it is loaded.
 According to the programme the signal for an explosion is 10 be given in Macedo- mia by an uprising of the Christians there. The inhabitants oi this faith there are in a majority in that country and besides they have friends close at hand who are ready to take their side in any contin- gency. It is assumed by the writer in the Speaker that the powers will not use force to prevent Bull garia, Greece and Servia from taking part in a revolution in Macedonia, and these proIo ,itions put into the form of threats may be partly aimed at the sultan in order to coerce him into an assent to an Anglo there is any good ground for this ac- tion on the assumption that there has been wanton and wholesale slaughter of Chris tians in that province it cannot be as yet definitely learned. The reports from that region are still as conflicting as ever and the means of obtaining information that can be relied upon is quite as difficult as at the outset.
 Nevertheless there is every indication that a crisis of the greatest international importance is imminent, growing out of the present aspect of things in the east.