Monday, September 10, 2012

Balkan Outlook Graver.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 10, 1912:
Bulgarians and Servians Want to Fight Turks — Armenians Massacred.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 10.— The Daily Mail Sofia correspondent says that two Bulgarian Corporals at Karatepe, a small military post on the Macedonian frontier, were shot by Turkish frontier guards on Sunday and the body of one of the men was carried off. Shots were afterward exchanged between the two posts.
    The Bulgarian Government has instructed its Minister at Constantinople to press energetically for satisfaction.
    Though the war spirit is unabated, the general opinion is that no serious step will be taken in the next fortnight. The belief prevails that the Bulgarian Government will wait and see if Kiamil Pasha has any real plan of reform, since his succession as Grand Vizier is regarded as imminent.
    Dr. Vladoff, one of the leaders of the Bulgarian revolutionary organization in Macedonia, told the correspondent that he had received a cablegram from America stating that 15,000 Bulgarian immigrants were ready to return to Macedonia at a moment's notice to fight the Turks. Though this number was probably exaggerated by enthusiasm, undoubtedly the thriving 200,000 Bulgarian emigrants in America would send material assistance if war began.

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