LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION.

Pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the editorial note appended to my letter in the Spectator of January 10th you seem to call in question the accuracy of my statements regarding the Macedonian Com- mittee, its policy and its methods. I therefore rely on your

candour to allow the following answer to appear in your columns. My denunciation of the Committee is based on a thorough, first-hand knowledge of the situation in Macedonia. But, fortunately, that knowledge does not stand unsupported by external evidence. Neither my time nor your space would permit an exhaustive enumeration of all the evidence that could easily be adduced in corroboration of my statements ; it amounts to the unanimous reports of the correspondents of the leading London newspapers and of the telegraphic agencies in the Near East and elsewhere. But a few of these refer- ences that I happen to have near me at this moment will amply suffice for my purpose:— •

Daily Telegraph, March 27th, 1902, from Vienna and Cologne.

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Reu▪ ter telegram from Salonica, dated March 31st.

Times April 7th, 1902, from Constantinople.

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Constantinople.

Reuter telegram from Constantinople, dated April 7th.

▪ PP 29 PP „ 6th, published in the Daily Telegraph, April 11th, 1902. Many of these reports are headed "Bulgarian Outrages," "Atrocities by Bulgarians," "Murder and Blackmail," and other equally suggestive titles. "What further need have we of witnesses P" or have all these gentlemen conspired to sully the purity of the Committee's reputation ? I neither advo- cate nor denounce "solutions," I only chronicle facts.—I am, Sir, &c., G. F. ABBOTT. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.