Some one recently murdered Dr. Vulkovich, the able repre- sentative
of Bulgaria in Constantinople. Suspicion fell on a Russian, who was arrested; but the Russian Embgasy compelled the Porte to let him go, and he was sent to Odessa to reside. The Bulgarians are convinced, per- haps on insufficient evidence, that the man suspected was the murderer, and that the Russians screened him, from sympathy with his deed. They are therefore furious, not with Russia, from which they expect only hostility, bat with the Porte, which, they argue, so long as it claims suzerainty, is bound to protect them against their enemies. The Porte, they say, under the present Grand Vizier, is a mere agent of the Czar, and it would be better to run the risks of inde- pendence than to endure longer an intolerable situation. They hesitate still, however, to take the final step, and will probably continue to hesitate while the Great War hangs like a little black cloud in the political horizon.
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