Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-14
A BURNING SHAME,
Christian Europe Allows the
Slaughter to Continue
And Bulgaria, by Intervening Will
Suffer the Political Penalty.
q Blot on the None too Good Name
of the Europeans.

London, Sept. 14.-Rumor from
Vienna, and elsewhere is very busy.
this morning, regarding the Balkan cri-
sis and while it is impossible to confirm
the more sensational statements, there
is accumulation of evidence that some
violent solution cannot long be delay
ed.
The Sofia correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph sends under Sundays date
another long dispatch warmly defend
ing Rulgarias patient and quixotic at
titude of loyalty towards the Porte and
the powers, and denouncing Europes
indifferences to the wiping out of a
large Christian community. He says:
Bulgaria has displayed unexampled
moderation Her last urgent request
to the powers was that they should
compel Turkey to suppress the rising
by legitimate methods of warfare but
to spare women and children from in
dignities and massacre. But even this
Christian Europe has refused and now
Prince Ferdinands government, hav-
ing confidently considered the question
and aware of the disastrous conse-
uuences which the powers threaten
bulgaria if she intervenes, has decided
that it cannot longer neglect its sacred
duty to prevent the Christian popula-
ton being done to death. I'm couple
of DAYS more the die will be cast and
Bulgaria will do her duty. an official
communication will be made to the
powers in the above indicated sense
and forthwith the necessary measures
will be taken and only countermanded
if the powers Immediately intervene.
| This is Bulgaria's last word. The
moral responsibility will fall upon
| Christian Europe even if the material
| consequences have to be endured by
| Bulgaria.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
| the Standard, says large forces are be-
| ing collected to the north and north
west of Constantinople, where, in the
event of war, the first fighting is eX-
pected to occur.
From Vienna, comes the semi official
statement that Austria has again pro-
posed to the powers to abolish Bulga-
ria. but that so far nothing has come
of the proposal. The Neues Poster
Journal, often we'll informed. accuses
| Russia of openly assisting the Mace
DOMAIN revolutionists, even sending
them arms, her object being gradually
| to exclude Austria from influence in
| Balkan affairs.
| 1t is reported from Constantinople,
| that no foreign military attaches have
gone to Monastir but that another
| American warship presumably the
| gunboat Machias) has arrived at Bey-
| rut.
The correspondence of the Times at
IL
for the powers to address admonitions
to Bulgaria at the present moment be-
cause it would strengthen, on the eve of
the elections, the hands Of the OppOSi-
ton party which is trying to foment
Il bellicose agitation in order to over
throw the present government. The
1 infiction of a needless humiliation upon
the government which has endeavored
to convince the nation of the folly of an
| adventurous policy, would be merely
playing into the hands of the war
party"
The Daily Nails correspondent at
Sofia in a dispatch dated Sept. 9, sends
an interview he has had with Tartar
scheff, the chief of the revolutionary
committee, in which the latter repre-
scented that there was a strong proba-
bility of Servia throwing in her lot
with Bulgaria against Turkey and that
| the question of war or no war depended
| mainly on Servia.
| Capt. Sarafoff, the brother of the rev.
dictionary chief, who was also present
at the interview, went further than
| Tartarscheff and alleged that it was
weeks ago agreed that at the slightest
| provocation, the Servian forces should
| invade old Servia and occupy Uskub.
1t was limited that Montenegro would
also be heard from in Albania and that
| Turkey would thus be compelled to
! divide her forces. thereby much re-
ducing her chances of victory.