We publish elsewhere what seems to us a severely impartial
analysis of the evidence upon which the charges of " atrocities " against Turks and Russians rest, and it shows as, we think, con- clusively that as yet English evidence from every place but Shumla is dead against the southern and not the northern armies. We utterly despair, however, of convincing anybody, and only go on with the work from a sense of duty. The power of weighing evidence seems to have disappeared under the passions excited by the struggle, and pro-Russians believe in Turkish atrocities, and pro-Turks in Cossack massacres, simply because they prefer so to believe whatever the facts may be. There are, however, a few moderate men left, who will insist that none but disinterested evidence—that is, practi- cally, none but the evidence of English or American, German or French eye-witnesses—shall be received as final, and it' is to them we appeal. We must add with a feeling of intense re- lief that for the first time there is evidence that a Turkish Pasha is putting down outrages in the only effective way. Suleiman Pasha bangs or flogs Irregulars who commit them.
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