The sun., 1903-08-09
POWERS TO LET TURK ALONE.
NOT LIKELY TO INTERFERE IN
THIS MACEDONIAN REVOLT.
Tactics OF the ReyOlutiOnists Have Had
something 10 DO with Changing the
Feeling Toward the sultan-Insur-
rectiOn Seems TO Be Spreading.

Special Cums DcspGteheS TO THE SUN.
LONDON, Aug SIT has come true that
the Macedonian revolt at Easter, which
so soon evaporated, was only postponed.
The revolutionary committees HI d been
announcing general rising after harvest,
and as the crops have now been reaped,
their prediction appears to be coming true.
Rowing bands of the kind now familiar
have been destroying telegraph lines, rail-
road tracks and storehouses, and using
dynamite.
Concurrently with these roadside OUT
breaks, the Porte has issued circular
note TO the Powers, explaining its efforts
to enforce the Austro- Russian reform
scheme, and complaining bitterly OF the
want of confidence shown in the good
faith of the Sultan's Government. A con-
siderable slaughter of undesirables was to
be expected after this diplomatic proceed
ing, and it happened in the district of
Monastr.
The want of confidence in Turkey I'M
doubtedly exists as strongly as ever in
Western Europe, and is due entirely to the
incurable repugnance the Turk has always
shown to fulfil the promises of administra-
of the tactics of the Revolutonists and the
insincerity Of many of their champions
have resulted in bunting the sense of
wrong Even a few months ago it was
most improbable that any step would be
taken by the Western Powers to interfere
with the Sultan in queling the disturb
ances in his own familiar way. The abate-
ment Of the ant-Turkish wrath is illus
trated by the view of the present uprising
taken by to-dayis Times.
In pointing out that the hapless neutrals
are the principal sufferers in the present
proceedings, the Times edit orally says that
the turbulent persons who get up these
disturbances are we'll aware that it is not
their corn that is destroyed or their home
stead' that are harried The Times adds
cynically:
"They play their political game or in
dulgc in their sporting instincts at the
expense of the quiet people bound to the
soil. who might prefer the ills they have
TO the remedies forced upon them If
Turkish stat esmanship were Of a higher
o der. great care would he taken to dis
criminae between these two classes. I'm
ortunately, the Turks are too prone to
play the game Of their enemies by taking
revenge upon all and sundry."
1t is, nevertheless likely that the crisis
will pass again. Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia it is announced, proposes returning
to Sofia. We're there danger, he would
stay away. That is the reverse OF com
plientary to the Prince but it is likely
to be just flied by events.
CoNsrANTINopLE, Aug. s.--The latest
advices indicate that the insurrectionary
movement fomented by the Bulgarians
in Macedonia has become general There
has been nm outbreak AZ Seres. forty-seven
! miles northeast Of Salonica, and uprisin rs
| are reported in four Bulgarian villages in
| Xelera.
There have been uprisings in Albanian
| villages, encouraged by the Bulgarian
movement, but the Porte declares that the
| Albanian revollitionists have been subdued
II is reported that the Government tele.
graph Offices af Uskup and Krushevo have
been blown UP with dynamite.
An trade dishanding considerable mum
Der Of troops in Macedonia, promulgated
last Monday, was cancelled subsequently
Twelve battalions of Redifs have beer
called out in the vilayets of Monastir ano
Serfdje.
PARIS, Aug. S.-A Salonica despatch
states that 10, 900 insurgents, divided into
four corps, are operating in the vilayet o.
Monastir. An additional 10000 are said to bt
opposing the Turkish troops in Kastoria.