Bulgarians Want To Fight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 4, 1912:
If the Powers Do Not Aid Macedonia War with Turkey Is Likely.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Wednesday, Sept. 4.— A telegram to The Daily Mail from Sofia says:
    "Unless the powers succeed without delay in securing self-administration for Macedonia, even the present Bulgarian Government will become convinced of the necessity for war with Turkey. The Cabinet, its supporters, and a few Socialists are the only people opposed to an immediate campaign. "Autonomy is the one form of government possible in Macedonia, Turkey will concede autonomy only under compulsion. Either the powers must exert that compulsion or Bulgaria must be allowed to exert it.
    "This presents the true attitude of Bulgaria at the present moment."
    The Times's Vienna correspondent says: "A note, not indeed of alarm, but of disquietude, continues to be struck by all trustworthy reports on the Balkan outlook. Bellicose agitation in Bulgaria persists, and is causing some doubt whether the Cabinet will be able indefinitely to resist it.
    "The Bulgarian desire that some guarantee be established for the better treatment of the Macedonian Christians is insistent. As is natural, it is believed to find a sympathetic echo in Russia, however much the Russian Government may urge upon Bulgaria the expediency of keeping the peace."
    The Times prints a dispatch from a correspondent who visited Berano, a village a few miles from the Montenegro border, the scene of recent Turkish atrocities.
    "Djavid Pasha told me," says the correspondent, "that now, as always, the Turkish Government acts with justice and goodness, that peace reigns everywhere, and that no Moslems are permitted to possess weapons.
    "I next heard from Christians piteous tales of suffering and barbarism. Three unarmed men were dragged from a house and shot without trial by Nizams, who then sacked the Christian quarter. A woman of 70 was beaten with rifles and shut, bleeding, in a filthy outbuilding.
    "Many villages were completely annihilated, and even orchards were burned up. Very many people are destitute. The whole appears to be a violent attempt to exterminate the Christian population. A state of siege has been proclaimed.
    "One wounded woman in the hospital says the Nizams ordered her to leave her home and fired at her as she was running out. Seventeen women and children were butchered."