| Show v w GRAVITY OF EASTERN CRISIS NOW understood the birmingham eng ung post says it learns from a reliable source that pe the creusot creuzot firm well known german armament manufacturers has received ec elved orders for arms during the P aalst aast ast tour four months from the bulgarian Bul garlan government the first condition was that the weapons should be delivered expeditiously moreover the orders were accompanied by financial assur inces ances which Is rather unusual in the case of contracts with macedonia and ether other eastern countries but which aich was a sufficient stimulus to induce the ac cep tance of the conditions the or respondent of the london dally daily mail who has arrived at vienna piousness and cruelty the albanian moslems who are brigands by nature and training prey on the christian macedonians from the western bound ary while turkish ledies from asia whose idea of soldiering sold lfering is comprised in murder and plunder inflict all sorts of outrages on the wretched inhabit tants whom they are supposed to pro hect violence has provoked violence until the macedonians Macedon tans regard revenge as the only means of redress tor for turk ish crimes and if macedonia is not in continual revolution it is only be cause the winter season reason Is too severe tor for active hostilities the horrors of turkish warfare jh inflicted upon their captives by north american indians worse than death is the treatment of the Bal bulgarian garlan wives and daughters by the brutal turkish soldiery the bulgarians on their part do not spare the turks when the latter fall into their hands and massacre by one side or the other is the usual termination of a con filet S tuat on summed up A writer who has long studied the eastern question thus sums up the situation there are certain well defined in dictations that the hicl man of europe Is about to throw another fit the heather Is afire as they used to say in scotland out in the balkan penin sular and Rou roumania manla and bulgaria and the other provinces whose names sound like new varieties of old cheese are about to revolt austria on the one side of the invalid russia on the other are mobilizing their troops and preparing to descend upon the cata chasm meanwhile the patient sits r I 1 nii 4 on hia his return from servia telegraphs that while in belgrade he was recell ed in audience by king alexander he quotes the king as saying the mace question Is not riot nearly as serious as the albanian question the latter Is the real danger to the peace at of the balkans and the murder of M the russian consul at has made the situation more critical when ibrahim the albanian soldier who shot herbina is executed for his crime the vendetta will fall on the sultan and the chris bulgar an minister of war who has gone to frontier to check invasion vans who forced him to execute the of turkey by insurgent bands and scenes in the disturbed area of murderer the present seeming quiet the balkans Is only a temporary lull as the al banialis tani lanhans alis are merely waiting to see hat steps will be taken against them ir ther trouble Is certain to come albanians in deadly earnest A man mans s life in albania is worth ine tie penny just the price of a cart calt I 1 dge an educated albanian once lanc concisely isely said he ile referred however a times when the albanians were amply amusing themselves and his liying must not be given too much kel k keight el g lit to daa da just as present the alb albanians anians are serious they have declared tec lared a truce to their blood feuds abandoning bando ning the ordinary pastime of I 1 ti banian life and they are turning I 1 air frank and open countenances ex ct antly toward constantinople no bonder konder europe 1 is alarmed and no 11 vonder the king of sema seria Is reported as a saying that the albanian question has become much more serious than le ie macedonian question the other day the ambassadors of aulsia and austria did abdul hamid the honor of a joint visit to urge upon f alm im the necessity ot of suppressing the albanian disorders unfortunately tor for the sultan his envoys to his al banian subjects were even then being held as hostages at ipek what he made to the ambassadors inder the circumstances nobody has had the temerity to make public abdul hamid Is moving large de tach ments of his kurd troops into the balkan provinces the kurds did the sultan sultans s work of expert butchery in armenia they can however ex hect no meek necks stretched to the knife in albania if the worst comes to the worst the world Is as apt to be pitying the poor kurds as the poor albanians conditions are unbearable A returned missionary writing in the christian herald thus describes the situation in macedonia the anarchy insecurity and antol erance arance of all creeds calling them selves christian which prevail aher ever the turk has full sway sufficient y accounts for conditions in mace donia there is no foreign influence there to restrain turkish greed licen A tta and there Is abundance evidence that the Macedon macedonians lans are suffering the worst forms of savage cruelty known to the asiatic horde which the sultan has poured into that hapless euro dominion the descriptions of these cruelties recall the barbarities refuses to take any newfangled new tangled medicines in the way dt of reforms and sets his attendants to sharpening up the when the surgeons actually arrive we shall see what we shall see of course but judging fram past experiences there promises to be many dead and something doing at the wake it if the unspeakable turk really elects to fight the able hussian russian it will be far more than a shattering of syllables the turk may be tottering as they say but if past experiences are any criterion he will no sooner be actually attacked than he will show an astonishing liveliness europe has been about to eat up the bulun and his domain for a good many years but it chasn t hap bened yet turkey Is an ungo bled gobbler still |
