The Turks do not stop their atrocities even during the
agonies of war. At Philippopolis the most active hanging—even of respectable "Manchester," though not English, merchants—and others, is going on. At Carlova, at the relief camp, a correspondent of yesterday's Times describes horrors worse still. There are sheltered at Carlova some 5,000 women, who are either inhabitants, or have fled from the massacres going on else- where. "Of all these helpless creatures not a dozen are desperate enough to leave their empty houses,. except to run here [to the camp] in weeping groups,. beseeching us for that protection which it makes the blood boil to be powerless to give. Anything like the White Terror can scarcely have existed since the French Revolution. In other places, the Bashi-Bazouks and Cir- cassians have come and gone like a blasting sand-storm, and the living have raised their heads upon their departure. Here for nearly six agonising weeks, they have come and gone at their own hellish will, and their hapless quarry have been cooped up like fowls awaiting their inevitable turn." And the wretch Chefket Pasha is high in command, and his accession to a command in Bulgaria was received with general rejoicing, we were told, by the Turkish troops!
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