How ill-founded is the hope that a general Balkan war
may still be averted is shown by the message which the Bulgarian Prime Minister has sent to the people of England through the Daily News and Leader of Friday :-
" The impending war is the appalling ransom we are going to pay [to win] for our Christian brethren a freedom of which they were robbed by the crime committed at the Congress of Berlin. We appeal to England for aid; we beseech her not to forget her great responsibility for the iniquitous work performed by the Congress of Berlin; we implore her not to commit again the error of thinking that Turkey will be able to work out alone the lasting pacification of the Balkan peninsula. Let her insist once for all upon the only satisfactory solution of the Balkan question—the disappearance of direct Turkish rule in South-eastern Europe."
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