The Great Turk and His Lost Provinces 57 



large, sad eyes grow merry at the farces 

 so frequently enacted at the Yildiz 

 Kiosk when the representatives of the 

 powers appear in their radiant uniforms 

 to remonstrate against his inhumanity 

 to his Christian subjects. He realizes 

 and he knows that they realize that the 

 slightest interference by force on the 



ble than any other nation, because its 

 government sustains and protects the 

 Sultan in his atrocious barbarisms not 

 only in Macedonia but in all parts of 

 the near East. 



Von Moltke prophesied that a univer- 

 sal war would be fought under the walls 

 of Constantinople, and the Bulgarians 



House of the Sobranye (Bulgarian National Assembly), Sofia 



part of any of their sovereigns will pro- 

 voke an even more emphatic remon- 

 strance elsewhere for fear some commer- 

 cial or political advantage may be 

 gained ; and when his situation becomes 

 serious he grants another profitable con- 

 cession to some German syndicate as an 

 additional policy of insurance against 

 intervention. Germany is more culpa- 



are trying to provoke it. What is 

 known as the Macedonian Committee is 

 an organization to which every Bulga- 

 rian belongs. Its headquarters are in 

 one of the most conspicuous buildings 

 upon one of the most prominent streets 

 of Sofia. Its meetings are public. It 

 issues a weekly newspaper in which its 

 purposes are announced and its plans 



