Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
Turkish Army Annihilating
Neighboring People.
POWERS ASKED TO ACT
UNLESS SULTAN IS RESTRAINED
SMALLER COUNTRY WILL FIGHT.
Situation Has Become 1ntolerable,
Massacres Are Growing and Hos
tilities Must Soon Come.

SOr la, bulgaria.. ScpleHhpeI oAio"
Ing are some of the points in the note which
Bulgaria has Just presented to the powers:
What the Bulgarian government had
foreseen, as expressed in its note of June
20, of the development of affairs in Turkey,
has become amply verified. The Turkish
government is systematically annihilating
the Bulgarian people.
THE mobilization and concentration of
such great forces In European Turkey. un-
der the pretext of suppressing the revolu-
ton. gives Bulgaria reason to suppose that
at an opportune moment she will be attack
ed by Turkey.
At End of Patience.
THE Bulgarian government can no longer
remain Indifferent to the presence of such
q situation, which Is of a nature calculated
to bring about a hostile collision between
Turkey and Bulgaria.
'If the great powers do not take meas
ures to give the sublime porte counsels OF
wisdom and moderation the Bulgarian gov
ernment will be obliged to take the neces-
ssry steps to be ready for every eventually
and to not be taken by surprise"
SOFIA. September 15-The American
consul at Beirut telegraphs that the situa-
ton there is tranquil although some fears
are entertained of disturbances on the occa-
sion Of the Feast Of the Cross.
The consul adds that good impression
was created by Rear Admiral Cottons con-
ference with Nazim Pasha, the acting vail
of Beirut, and the latters repressive action.
as already reported by Admiral Cotton to
the authorities at Washington.
Premier Petroff was interviewed today by
the correspondent of the Associated Press
here on the reasons which induced the Bull
garian government to issue yesterdays note
to the powers. He said:
Premier Petroff.
TT has been from the hrst plainly evi-
dent that the policy Of Turkey was to him
der the development of the Bulgarian race
in Macedonia, which was the strongest ma
tional element there. With this end in view
the Turks proceeded to devastate the coun-
try and kill the Bulgarian Christians, driv-
ing the survivors into the mountains and
forests, where they would either perish OF
hunger or else cross the Bulgarian frontier
and become burden to the Bulgarian ma
ton. In the meanwhile the powers paid
not the slightest attention to the Bulgarian
note of June %, but rather encouraged the
Turks. who adopted the most severe meas
ures to suppress the outbreak.
The Bulgarian government is now COM
pelled TO protect not only Bulgaria itself,
but also the Bulgarian element in Mace
donia. 1t is further evident that Turkey
has directly encouraged the revolution, as
with ten times as many guards on the from
tier as Bulgaria employed the Turks never
stopped a single revolutionary band nor an
individual crossing the frontier.
THE porte was only too anxious to have q
pretext for continuing the massacres and
the determination of the Bulgarian people
Thousands of Turks.
Turkey has now concentrated 300 600
troops in Macedonia, only about 25,OOO of
Whom are engaged in the suppression of the
revolt. There is no attempt to fight the in
surgents. but the troops attack innocent
women and children. The Bulgarian gov
ernment is forced to perceive In this ex-
cessive mobilization a clear sign of Tur-
keys desire, after she has succeeded in
suppressing the outbreak In Macedonia, to
attack Bulgaria and exterminate the Bull
garian race.
All our latest information from Macedonia
and Constantinople confirms this view
Hilmi Pasha, the vail of Salonica has OPEN
ly declared that war with Bulgaria is the
only way of settling the Macedonian ques-
ton. The Constantinople press, which is
under the most severe censorship, was re-
Gently allowed to publish the most sensa-
tional reports. with the object of increasing
the Mussulmans' fanatical hatred of the
Bulgarian Christian"