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Show WARLIKE PREPARATIONS ARE MADE BY BULGARIA . . ( S .""v a a a a A . Turkey Makes , Formal 1 Complaint, . Charging Bad Faith and Assistance Assist-ance to Mac cdonlans. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. In connection connec-tion with the threatened uprising in the Balkans, diplomats here, have received the full text of a note recently sent by Turkey to the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin. The note charges Bulgaria with fomenting all the trouble in Macedonia, saying: "The principality of Bulgaria does not change its attitude of active, though concealed, hostility, in spite of the efforts ef-forts of the Porte in carrying through the stipulated reforma" It is charged, among other things, that in order to be able to arm all the villagers, vil-lagers, guns as well as ammunition are constantly transported to eight Bulgarian Bulga-rian frontier places; the depots of three frontier divisions are provisioned and armed as for an imminent war; the powder pow-der factories and artillery workshops in Sofia work double time and with double forces; in all the districts preparations on a large scale are made for amassing amass-ing suppllesv a vast commissariat, and the furnishing of thousands of wagons by the population as the first appeal; an extraordinary credit -was appropriated for the eventuality of war. Bulgaria is charged with countenancing countenanc-ing public sale of dynamite to the Macedonians Mace-donians and the reform scheme of the powers in Macedonia is declared to be absolutely worthless, and Turkey is said to-be convlncd that peace and order cannot ;be restored by paper reforma conducted by person Ignorant of the i complicated racial conditions . of those I regions. I |