Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-19
..2,27s,517

Total -...-.2, ,21S,517
 These figures show that even then the Bulgarian population was in a ma
 jority over all other clements Seven years later. when most of the Turkish population had left Macedonia, the Bulgarians in Macedonia, according to other French statistics, formed no less
 than S1.50 per cent of the total popu- lation. Since then, however. this per centage has been reduced considera bly,
 on account of emigration. There are in
 Bulgaria, today, about 230, 900 Mace
 donian refugees, and many Macedonian Bulgarians have emigrated to the Uni ted States in recent years. Neverthe-
 less the Bulgarian population of Mace donia even today. is at least 7S0,000,
 as against 270,o00 Greeks, Serbs, and other Slavs.
 1 But these figures are not to be ac- cepted in a racial sense. The Mace | dOnians who claim to be Bulgars, are Bulgars principally because their ten | dency towards Bulgaria has. in the | course of time and owing to repres- | sive methods employed against them
 by Greeks and Serb alike, become a general and openly expressed desire to
 merge with the Bulgarians into a sin gle national unit. The 'Bulgar" of
 Macedonia looks upon the inhabitant of Bulgaria proper as his brother, and l strives, by every means at his dispo- sal, to effect the reunion for which the separation of Bulgaria from the l Ottoman Empire and the more recent division of Macedonia, between Greece and Serbia have given the necessity The means of the Macedonian Bulgar towards this end, have been very linn ited. They have consisted, so far, O.
 the formation of bands. known a:
 "comitadjiS" committeeman and persistent attitude of passive resist. Il ance towards the efforts of Greece anC
 Serbia to suppress "Bulgarianism'' iI
 the parts of Macedonia allotted tC
 them in the Treaty of Bucharest, 1913 As already stated the Bulgar O
 Macedonia is not strictly Bulgarian il
 race, though. no doubt, many Mace donians come from the old Bulga;
 stock. 1t is most interesting to trac,
 the development of the Bulgarian na !. tional idea in Macedonia.
 The Treaty of Berlin, 1878 cut int two. almost equal parts, the Bulgarian ' population of the Ottoman province } on the Balkan peninsula, by the for nation of an independent Bulgaria Macedonia still continued a Turkisl Province. But the separation of tn 7 in Macedonia, did not sever such tie } of kinship as had existed before. No l were they neglected. Stambuloff, fo instance, made it one of the objects 0 his life to foster "Bulgarianism" i 3 Macedonia. going to the extreme, i 3 one case, of presenting an ultimatur
 to Sultan Abdul Hamid in which wa was given as the alternative to tn 3 creation of three bishoprics in Mace j. donia. The dictator was farsighte :, enough to conclude that a strong TSul Q gafia could result only from prevent q ing the Bulgars of Macedonia froI g joining some of the other Slav group n This policy has since then been care s fully nursed. through the maintenanc f of a very active. and almost wholly un t selfish. Interest in the intellectual al f fairs of Macedonia According
 English authorities, there were ?, Macedonia and Thrace. in 1911, seve 5, Metropolitan bishops, 1,31e priests u 1881 church, 2e4 chapels, "a monster s :es; 13 high schools, s7 secondal d schools, 1,2fS primary schools; 2,2t d teachers. and Ts,s54 pupils. Of the. IS latter, 1905 teachers, and 35.9s6 pJ - pills, were in the part of Macedon n now occupied by Serbia, while 5, st teachers. and 1s,966 pupils were u a. share of Greece after the partition ,- Macedonia The remainder, 672 teaci e CTS. and 2s.so2 pupils were to be four '- in the parts of Macedonia and Thrai g which Bulgaria incorporated, or whiS 10 Turkey was permitted to keep in pr,
 lnortinns of about,so and 20 per cer