Bulgarian Premier To American Nation.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 5, 1912:
M. Guechoff Sends a Message Through The New York Times's Special Correspondent.
HOPES FOR OUR FRIENDSHIP
Our Aid in 1876 Will Always Be Remembered by the Bulgars — The Influence of Robert College.
By FREDERICK PALMER,
Special Correspondent of The New York Times.
    SOFIA, Nov. 4.— Minister President Guechoff, who is both Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs and to whose statesmanship and initiative as Adjutant of King Ferdinand the Balkan Alliance is largely due, along with his letter of introduction to army headquarters, gave me this message to America:
    In the great national crisis in 1876 Bulgaria was befriended by America in a way which will always be remembered by our people. It was Robert College, which has done so much, for our education, that first raised a voice for the victims of the atrocities committed by the Turks during the Bulgarian insurrection of 1876. It was the American Consul General at Constantinople, the late Eugene Schuyler, who first made an official report confirming all the appalling Turkish crimes, news of which had been communicated to the press by professors of Robert College.
    We hope that the Americans will befriend us in the present crisis also.
    What we want is that Europe agree to a definitive settlement of the Balkan question. That settlement ought to have been made at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, when, after the Russo-Turkish war, Turkey was at the mercy of the great European powers.
    The great powers then committed the mistake of leaving Turkish misrule in several provinces of Turkey in Europe. That mistake must not be repeated now.
    It is in the interest of European peace and humanity as well that Turkish misrule cease once and for all in the Balkan Peninsula.
    The influence of Robert College is still shown here, many Government officials having been educated there.