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Show Tjgm m TURKEY SHOULD BE CRUSHED. ,sThe Greek warships and transports carrying Bulgarian and W Servian troops have started for the Dardenelles and the Bulgarian 1 heavy artillery is once more hammering at the Tchatalja forts. m The Christian world would rejoice if the unspeakable Turk ' -were driven into Constantinople and across the Bosphorus to Asia Lji Minor, not because the Turk is not Christian, but owing to the Jf ; fact that he has been a murderer wherever he has ruled and his ft. , treatment of those, not of his faith, is barbarous. 7 i All that part of the Balkan states which has been under Turk- f ' , iah control, has been the scene of rapine, massacre and other forms ; of outrage, and now there is every reason to hope that the long period of atrocities is drawing to a close, and the peace of a better1 i civilization is about to take possession of Macedonia and neighbor- l ing territory. J ' This has been one of very few wars that might be classed as " i justifiable. Had the European powers been so disposed, they could have forced the Turk to treat the Christians of the Balkan states and of territory direotly under Turkish rule with fairness, but jealousies prevented until at last the Christian sufferers were themselves driven to a recourse to arms, and today those valiant soldiers are fighting, not purely for conquest or territorial aggrand- I izement, but for the privilege to live as the people of other civilized lauds live. So far the god of war has favored the allies. Until they met j, the resisting power of the forts of Tchatalja, the soldiers of Bul- f garia marched southward almost unobstructed. The crucial stage of the war has been reached. If the Bulgarians can enter Constantinople, Constanti-nople, the war will terminate with the breaking of an uninterrupted depotisin dating from 1453. The temporary halting of the victorious army at the forts had encouraged the Turks to such an extent as to cause them to reject the terms of the first armistice which they solicited. Now it is for the allies to make the terms more onerous, if success finally crowns their efforts. s The Powers will endeavor to save the Turks from complete hu- T initiation, but the allies have the whip hand while their troops are in the field and they should make the terms of peace so drastic that the Christians of no part of Europe shall ever again have cause to fear the murderous cry, "Allah I" |