PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11511, 18 February 1903, Page 8

PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES.

CONSTANTINOPLE. February 17. Forty quick-firing guns have been sent to Adrianople. Turkey has requested that ncr order placed with a German factory for ninety-six cannon be executed with increased expedition. "The Times's" Paris correspondent, writing on January 7th. *uid :—"Graphic reports of alleged" Turkish atrocities in Macedonia have already found their way into the columns of tin- French newspapers. In one instance a. list, of victims is given with their names, ages, and the manner in which they were done to death by the Turkw. it is quite possible that the reports in question correspond more or less with what h;is been going on for some time past in that ill-fated province of the Turkish Empire. Yet it is to he* hoped that whatever may be the sympathy of the European public for the victim.? of tho Macedonian agitation, they will not allow themselves to be carried away by purely sentimental considere.tions. Issues of such magnitude would be involved in a conflagration in the Balkan Peninsula that tlie whole of Europe i.-t interested in preventing it at all costs. I purposely say "at all costs,' as it is to be feared that it can scarcely be done, as it will eventually be done, with the aid of Turkish armed force, without a consider- ; able sacrifice of human life.*'