Show TURKEY COULD PUT UP A FIGHT o Much for B Bulgaria With Vit Bou and Gre Grece e Thrown In ARMY OFFICERS SPOILING LARGE tARGE AR Y COULD BE QUICKLY CONCENTRATED I PL Wednesday C No iu Iii to the tho Associated Press Pross l da n a prominent diplomat said I IThe The people oft tiC the States ven the tho f EUrOpe do not re rea rease a ase the l of the present sit situation Theten j the sultan anti the po s f In g Inn daily and I th the Sn feeling pf s is in though there is pro abl no i ir r anxiety n far IlS as ho safety of foreigners Is concerned especIally In 1 Time Badly Chosen The lh powers CO d not have chosen a WM Q time than the present for foz their ultimatum The They might as wll an ultimatum to this tho pope luring during holy hob week as expect the sultan to do nn thing in the last wook ieok pf of the f festival thal of or durIng the festival of Bairam The sultanS sultan and his ministers are this week Mk engaged daily clock In the tho afternoon in iii listening to anat lea IMI discourses b by the tho mullahs or priests who on the past great n nose of the in a manner whIch undoubtedly impresses their audience awl fence with the impossibilIty c with t of yielding to the tue Dowers Those performances will soon be over oyer however when matters will probably abl ably assume a pore sane sano and normal course but thor there Is no doubt douht in my the tho sultan will on this squeezing He may bo be content enough ugh tp to ee certain Islands in the I of the powers rather than see e his on the lust last of his I European ean weakened This feeling is shared to a ac c certain extent by the higher army au ati who ho Would be vcr very much die inclined to see fur Turl ish territory cooed ceded 01 anything equivalent to such cession without striking a blow blew Spoiling for a Fight Should it be reduced to a question Turkey and nou mania or Greece Grce e or between Turkey antI and aU all three Turkey would most as assuredly assuredly be found spoiling for l a fight She has between und anti men IU In European Turkey toda today and she could easily and quickly concentrate there Bulgaria luis has a and army amu Turkeys furkey great numerical superiority would count for fOI much Turkey clearly it Is eager enger to fight on this matter with the bordering penn tes sA ip 1 th I IOtt ont Ott witnessing a settlement qt the tho pr present difficulties s makes It Increasing asing Iy harder for tor either the sultan or the powers powe to live give in America Not Concerned Ameti nn interests in Macedonia are somewhat inconsiderable With the exception of a f few w scattered mission missionary ar ary e the they hardly extend extended ed bf beyond ond Salonica and At the Nov 28 S on the occasion of festival of the f for 1 ign eign diplomats were not permitted to occupy the usual seats but were as assigned sign signed d to others from which they could see nothing As a consequence most ot of the diplomats including Mr 11 mau the American minister left the luin lath of audience According to reliable reports there ht o been 1100 political murders in Macedonia during the thic last eleven months |