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Show I ! BALKAN TROUBLE ) - ACAIN INACI A Old Question of Domination Between Greeks and Bulgarians Bul-garians Revived. It Is Asserted That the Patriarchal Church at Constantinople Has Acted as Accomplice of Greek Dands In Order to Strength en Church. Sofia, Bulgaria. The anti-Greek movement In Itoumnnln, and especial ly In Bulgaria, Is dally assuming greater proportions and threatens to i bocomo n serious danger to pcaco. The Bulgarian government, It nppears, I will bo forced to tako exceptional measures to tormlnato the disturb nnces which nro duo to nntl-Grcck feeling, with which tlio entlro popu-I popu-I lntlon of tho principality Is Imbued. Tho caiiBO of this feeling Is tho historical his-torical competition between Qrccco and Bulgaria for domination in tho Dalknns, which wns rocently reawakened reawak-ened nnd stimulated by their rivalry in Macedonia rivalry which It Is al leged has boon artificially encouraged by tho Turkish authorities and particularly par-ticularly by tho atrocities of the Greek bands. It ls asserted that tho patriarchal church at Constantinople has acted as an accomplice of these bands, with the object of forcing the ' peaceful population of Bulgaria to Join tho patriarchal pa-triarchal church, which openly raised subscriptions for tho benefit of the j Greek patriotic societies, and also , sought to Inllamo tho Bulgarian na tlonnl spirit. |