BALKAN UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 7

BALKAN UNREST.

MACEDONIA. ' JUDICIAL REFORM. ■ BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. v... London, February. 26. tho debate 111, tho Houso. of Lords / - on.•■ Macedonia',, Lord Fitzmaurice,/ .Under- ' ...Secretary, to tlio Foreign ;Ofßce, iiinted that somo. ; : of''tlio 'Ponxrs; feared' judicial ' reform. •": That'wasijSo&'wlisit -ttas mbst■ urgently ribeded ' to! stop 'outrages or.suppress thb'tyaridssome ;. iriorq..'effectivo' proposal . ought' to :bo ' forthcoming. ' The ' Marquis of 'Lansdowno, 'formerly Foreign ; Socretary, said .■ he ■ gathered. : that. Great Britain -was keeping an. observant .atti- ■ tudo./; ■': ■: .. \ i,THE 'MEREST PALLIATIVE." " Tho- scheme which has lately. found / favour, m' BritishVofficiai;.quarters is that of a re»rga'his'ed gendarmerie.' with'which Sir Edward jrey do&lt. in 'his speech,-. cabled yesterday. , ; With. regard>to "judicial reform," a "Constaiii- :' iinople cdrrespondent comments . "Thero '.- seems-to- be ■ little .likelihood that :he Porte will accent even this limited mca-;,'(control?^without--a - severe' strUßglo,-;or; ;. that 'when- accepted' it will ■ produco': any" im-' v mediate feal improvement in judicial adminis- .'= trationj : or that such improvement, even •if ■... effected,.'.will' exert any influence in putting an. end ;to ! tho;. murderous activities..'oi the Bulgarian, Greek, and other bands/' Anbther.writer.remarks:—"Tlio 1 judiciary, as . it ,noy. (stands,-'is;.'a'i powerful political instrument .; in.' tho'- hands of the Turkish . Govern-; 'ment,;'which : can arrest, detain, and punish its : enemies ias: it-, pleases. .The scheme adopted, by the ' Powers,'' though, offering only :a ' merest , palliative, • will, therefore, :.be 'obstinately refisted, if riot at the- outset, .at least, in . its practical' application "/.■'•'• -;-