The Constantinople correspondent of the Times says in Thursday's paper
that he can find no confirmation of the report that Bulgarian bands had crossed the frontier into Macedonia in order to induce the Macedonian Bulgars to rise. He thinks the report may be due to the disfavour into which the Bulgarian Constitutional clubs have fallen owing to the strong opinions they have recently expressed. At Salonika the Congress of the clubs passed a resolution that "tie Congress having noticed a tendency on the part of the predominant nationality to substitute for the personal form of despotism a collective form of oppression entitled
Parliamentary government, protests against this tendency, and demands a really constitutional form of government and an equal share in its benefits." It is difficult to believe that such an emphatic condemnation of the Young Turk adminis- tration was justified. The Correspondent says that a strong party of Young Turks, chiefly Army officers, wish to treat the various races as the Magyars treat the Slays. But so far it must be admitted that the Young Turks have held the balance fairly, and have worked for the creation of an Ottoman, as distinguished from a purely Turkish, Con- stitutional Empire.
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