The Turks appear to be incurable in their treatment of
the Eastern Christians. A well-known correspondent of the Guardian declares that the Bulgarians in Turkish Roumelia are constantly beaten, and even murdered, by armed Turks,. and gives, in one instance, the names of the sufferers. In. Macedonia, too, which is swarming with disbanded Bashi- Bazouks, outrages are incessant. We have before us a letter, resting on most credible German as well as English, authority, in which it is stated that late in March last, villages near Uscup were plundered, and men murdered and mutilated, by Arnauts in search of black-mail. The district official in ITscup sent out troops and brought in. thirty-five Arnauts, but they were all released on a promise to. surrender the actual murderers, which was never done. Scenes of this kind are reported also from Thessaly, and yet the Chriat- ians are condemned for turbulence when they organise insur- cretion, and for insolence when they say they will not have- Turkish officials over them. It is quite possible that the Turkish officials cannot do justice against their only friends, but then that is sufficient justification for a new regime.
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