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Show CRISIS INUIB BULGARIA ANTICIPATES CONFLICT WITH TURKEY AND IS PREPARING PRE-PARING FOR WAR. Bulgarian People Have Become Imbued . With Idea That Their Army In Invincible and Expect to Rush to Defense of Macedonia. Paris. Another dangerous crisis In the Balkans 1ms been narrowly but perhaps only temporarily avoided, nc- cording to well-informed diplomatic ' ' circles here, whore for months It has II been an open secret that Bulgaria was determined to try conclusions ! with Turkey over the question of , Macedonia, cither to win the province outright or, at least, to sccuro autonomy auto-nomy for tho rest of European Turkey. Tur-key. Bulgaria for years has made groat sacrifices to equip tho army which oho j now possesses, always with the Idea of Inevitable war with Turkey. Tho Bulgarian Bul-garian people have gradually become imbued with tho belief that their army Is Invincible, and the acquisition of her own independence has left thorn dissatisfied with their Christian brothers broth-ers In Macedonia, should they remain under tho domination of Turkey. They also reallzo that they cannot long sus-tnln sus-tnln tho burden of tho army on Its present footing. For tho king, also, a successful war would mean tho consolidation con-solidation of the position of a dynasty Imposed upon tho Bulgarian people by tho powers. For both tho king and tho people, therefore, it appeared to bs "'Now or never." |