10 AUGUST 1912, Page 1
A frontier dispute between Turkey and Montenegro, which looked dangerous
early in the week, has been settled. Much more serious is a massacre of Bulgars at Kotchana. Bomb ex- plosions, very likely arranged by the Bulgars themselves in order to compel intervention by the Powers, were followed by the indiscriminate slaughter of nearly 200 persons. At Salonika martial law has been proclaimed. Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha himself is a man of repute, courage, experience, and honesty. We do not yet despair of his guiding his country through this crisis. It would be a pleasing novelty if the country
were once more governed from Constantinople, instead of being dictated to from Salonika or some Albanian town.
