Lord Salisbury also endeavoured to extenuate the conduct of the
Turks in Bulgaria, though with much more attention to English opinion than the Premier has shown. He quite admitted that Eng- land would condemn such crimes, but denied that the Government of Turkey had any intentional hand in these horrors, and added :— "It has always been the case, where any Government has in such circumstances been compelled to employ other than their own drilled forces in suppressing a rebellion, that such acts as these have unfortunately been committed. We, ourselves, if we look back to the history even of our own islands some seventy years, and in our colonies at a much more recent date, will find no exception to this general law in that respect." Have we any- where in the colonies or in Ireland sold girls and children by auction as a measure of political repression ?
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