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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



Decemlier 1. 191^. 



Simplicissimus.'] [Munich. 



EUROPE TO TURKEY. 

 " There, there, you will get back your for- 

 ti-ess; but for heaven's sake, be friendly now." 



respondents and travellers have also as- 

 serted that the atrocities committed were 

 awful. Confirmation of the worst that 

 has been said is now forthcoming from 

 Professor S. Train Button, the American 

 representative on the International Com- 

 mission to investigate the conduct of the 

 second Balkan war. He says that " the 

 half has not been told." When the re- 

 port does come out " the world will 

 stand aghast that such things could 

 happen in the twentieth century. 

 The world will be amazed that nations 

 calling themselves Christians could, 

 either through anger or greed, commit 

 such barbarities on their fellow-men." 

 It is to be hoped that some of those who 

 glorify war will be able to spare time 

 to peruse the report. It should dampen 

 their ardour. It must advance the cause 

 of international peace by setting forth 

 the actual wreck and ruin of all unneces- 

 sary war. " There has not been a war," 

 says Professor Button, " in the last 200 

 years where the combatants fought with 

 such ferocity. The warring powers used 



every known process of extermination 

 and devastation to rend each other." 



Serbo-Creek Methods. 



The methods employed by Servia and 

 Greece in " settling " the Bulgarian dis- 

 tricts of Macedonia they have taken 

 are reminiscent of the Middle Ages, and 

 make those of Turkey seem mild and 

 gentle in comparison. The Bulgarian 

 Church has been totally suppressed, and 

 the Bishops and teachers have been ex- 

 pelled. Whole villages have been 

 burned down and their inhabitants 

 driven headlong across the frontier into 

 Bulgaria. They lose everything, and 

 there appears to be no redress. Servia 

 and Greece are, to quote Mr. Massing- 

 ham, achieving with entire impunity 

 masterpieces of oppression which the 

 Turks at their worst did not dare to at- 

 tempt. The Greeks have still some 300 

 Bulgaro - Macedonian prisoners in 

 Salonica, arrested for no crime save 

 their nationality, and many thousands 

 more are scattered in the prisons of the 



Kladderadatscli.} fBerlin 



THE UNLUCKY NAPOLEON OP THE BALKANS. 

 " What a poor kind of a cock I am, when that 

 rascal has stolen njy three finest tail feathers." 



