The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-20
BULGARIA NOT IN
FAVOR WITH GREEKS
Greek Newspaper Says Mace.
donna Is Object of BuIgar.
ian Covetousness.

Atlantis, a Greek newspaper pub
hshed in New York in the Greek Ian
guage, publishes an article on the situ-
atlon IN the Balkans that is timely and
Illuminating as showing the attitude
OF the Greeks toward the Turks and
the Bulgars. 1t is made clear that the
Greeks owe nothing to the Bulgars and
that they do not fancy being made the
scape goats of what the RuIears nro-
claim as religious war on the part Of
the turks. The article is reprinted In
its entirety:
Inc editor of Atlantis is too well ac-
quainted with the liberal spirit and
fa1r-mindedness of the American peo-
pie to believe that they are ready to
accept as the truth, the ridiculous and
malicious reports published from dav
to day, and which are either the result
OF extraordinarily developed magma
tons or prejudices. We are inclined to
believe that both these are factors in
the manufacture of the news from
Macedonia, or rather Sofia.
This newspaper has excellent facilf-
ties for getting the news from the scene
of trouble, even superior to the sources
from which the great dailies receive
their information. And what is more, II
is more reliable
Every effort has been made by the
press agent in Sofia, of the Bulgarian
revolutionary committee, to make the
war with, the Turks a religious war
The correspondents in Sofia, who nv
the way, are about as we'll situated for
the transmission of reports on occur
FENCES in Macedonia as a man in Chi
cago would be to report a happening
In New York. insist that it is war of
Mohammedan against Christian. The
Buigarians, by making it appear as a
religious strike, hope to excite the
sympathy of all Christendom. The
truth. however, has been entirely over
looked in the publication of alleged
Turkish massacres
There is one motive that actuates the
Bulgarian in his fight against the Turk.
1t is neither philanthropic, humanita-
| Ran nor religious. The motive is
| greed and the sole object is to brine,
about the annexation of Macedonia to
| Bulgaria
| Although the Italian "Tribuna" of
Rome says very pointedly that Rus
| STA and Austria, as the countries most
concerned in the East, should prove
! their sincerity by showing where the
Bulgarians secure the money to carry
! on their warfare, the answer is easily
lnade- All Americans who read Will
remember the kidnapping of Miss
Stone, an American missionary. and a
companion, by Bulgarian bandits. 1t
required $4,000 to ransom Miss Stone.
dna IL is fair to assume that a good
part of this money went for the pur-
chase of arms and ammunition to fight
the Turks. In fact, it is asserted that
the kidnapping was for the sole OBJ
Ject or securing munitions But. Of
course. the American gold of the RuI-
garian revolutionary committee has
long been exhausted and there exists
d Wen denned suspicion that thew are
now using Russian rubles.
AS 10 the repeated stories of massacres
9y the turks, If true. they are certainly
deplorable. But they lack cOnffrmatio1y
MONTH";. on the other hand. Is heard Of
S me o9uCrageS perpetrated on Greeks and
MA t1, by the Bulgarians. For the
iisI three years TREY have been guilty OF
the most atrocfous crimes against Greek
priests and teachers. Atlantis has n LIST
Oh wen authenticated cases of recent out
RACES Whlch lack of space prevents print
ing IN TINS issue, but which will appear in
the issue of Thursday next Official re-
ports from Crushevo tell of horrible con-
dltlon OF affairs there, following an attack
OF Bulgarian revolutionists There are in
that town today 5000 starving and half
naked men. women and children who have
ans. ~
That. the attempt of the BuIgarians TO
isurp Macedonia and make ii a part OF
their country Is unreasonable is proved
by official statistics recently contained I'm
diplomatic note from the Greek govern
ment to the governments of Europe These
show an overwhelming majority of Greeks
over Bulgarians in the villayets (territor-
ies) of Monastir and SalOnika The figures
are as follows:
MONASTIR
Greeks Observation-Disclosures. 300. 1872
Turks ....... 344 766
6uiSarlanS ...........-......... 1901
oeIN-dIlS ....-..--.-...... IL, GOD
Rumanians Observation-Disclosures. L 900
Jews $500. .----........ 1890
SALONIKA.
Greeks ....................... $50
turks .............-....... .425. 514