There is not much doubt that the bombs which exploded
in the crowded bazaar at Kochana were placed there by emis- saries of the Bulgarian Internal Organization. Five Bulgars as well as two Moslems and two Jews are said to have been killed by the first explosion. When the people were returning to the bazaar the second explosion took place, and Turkish soldiers then fell on the confused and terror-stricken Bulgars and killed nearly two hundred. The fact that Bulgarscaused the explosions discounts the anger of Bulgaria and the popular desire of the Bulgarians for war against Turkey, for the Bulgarian Government has never seriously done what it could to prevent, once and for all, the operations of the Internal Organization. The Organization is capable of effecting any act of violence that seems likely to attract the attention of Europe and bring intervention nearer. But when all allowances have been made the behaviour of the Turks was infamous, and the officials appear to have done nothing to stop the massacre. The new Turkish Government, if it desires to keep the sympathy of the world, must not allow it to be said that the guilty were allowed to go unpunished, as in the case of the much larger Adana massacre. That busi- ness alone destroyed the reputation of the Young Turks. We note that Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha has appointed a commission of inquiry of which Bulgars will be members.
