The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-09-16 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE TURKS.  The national hatred of wrong and of barbarous treatment of the weak, as illustrated so terribly in the Turkish behaviour in Bulgaria, continues day by day, to deepen in intensity and to spread through our English towns and cities like a conflagration. The columns of the daily newspapers are crowded with reports of the proceedings of public assemblies convened to express by grave and formal resolutions the general detestation of the crime and bloodshed by which the track of the Turkish soldiery is marked and branded as with a scourge. The sympathy f the country,—expressed individually and collectively—witnesses no abatement; and the records of horror which have sunk indelibly into the mind of the nation are bearing their natural fruit in the storm of remonstrance and indignation that is ringing in the ears of the British Government. The long catalogue of remonstrance which every day receives notable and impressive dditions can only be barely indicated ma journal like ours, but brief indications suffice to show the extent and force of the general feeling. That the military crimes of the Turks show litle sign of abatement may be gathered from a commentary offered by way of a reply to a note just issued by the Ottoman Embassy, which, on the part of its Government, is adding a mendacious hypocrisy to its crimes of butchery and rapine_ A note issued by the Ottoman Embassy states that "the Ottoman Government, obeying sentiments of humanity, has agreed to extend to the rebellion it is now repressing the provisions of the compact of Geneva; although in its eyes those provisions are obligatory only in international wars." The chiefs of corps are, as far as this depends on Ottoman armies, to endeavour to make respectEd the stipulations of the Convention of Geneva, and it is by these express instructions that the troops in the field are strictly, regulating their conduct. A practical comment upon these humanitarian professions is supplied, with singular and quite accidental unanimity by the correspondents of the Times, Daily News, and Standard. Three Servian prisoners were roastcd t death, and their charred bodies were seen by an English correspondent in the neighbourhood of Alexinatz. .ther traces of "atrocious cruelty" to t e wounded are said to be well authenticated. The Circasaians are reported to be burning every villa6e iu the Morava Valley south of Deligrad. The Standard's correspondent, the tone of whose previous letters is sufficient to free him from the suspicion of hostility to the Turks, confirms these reports, and addc another horrible detail to the hideous story by referring to girls outraged and fiaytd alive by the Turkish irregular cavalry. Minister liistics seems to have some warrant for stating in his Note to the diplomatic agents that "the whole Turkish mode of proceeding is one inexorable system of persistent persecution, destruction, and extermination, and not the mode of warfaio carried on by civilised nations."  One has a preference for the statements of the correspondents of Conservative journals, who, at any rate, are likely to be free Lora any desire to exaggerate crimes, the details of which it is supposed may embarass the Government which they are supposed to have taken under their protection. A brief telegram from the Standard is full of Turkish character and "colour." The Standard'a Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that during and after Friday's battle the 'lurks committed great atrocities. Ilide,..us stories reach him of rape and murder, of wounded Russians tied to trees and roasted alive, of girls brougut into the bervian camp after a cavalry raid still breathing, but flayed alive, after being subjected to outrages, compared with which mere murder is a venial offence. The Turkish march to Krujevatz and Kujazevatz ma) be descried at night by the glare of burning villages. There is no force between the Turks and belgrade.. After statements of this kind it seems idle to dream that it is likely, that the red-handed —or as Mr. Gladstone would say—the "rodhanded and red-armed" barbarians of the Turkish army can ever experience any compunction for the deeds they have perpetrated.