TURKISH EUPHUISMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 13

TURKISH EUPHUISMS.

There is sometimes a delightful charm in the way Turks make unpleasant admissions (bays Mr. Reginald Wyon in Tho Balkans from Within). Murdeis aro laicIy mentioned as such iv Turkish piipeis, but read somewhat as follows: — "Wo regret to hnvo to ritnlo that Mj\ So-und-So has died suddenly. Tho guilty poisons have been imprisoned." When the King and Queen of Sorvia were murdered it was many days before the truth came out in Constantinople-. Then people iuad that tho King, Queen, j and heveral Ministers all died on the night of 11th June, in Belgrade. But perhaps tho funniest remark of all was made to mo by tho Gieck Bishop of Fiorina, who, when asked how he could explain away the massacre of a Greek villago by his beloved friends tho Turks (Arinensko, August, 1903), replied: — "Nothing Easier. You see, the Turkish soldiers shoot badly, and Mere aiming ut tho Bulgars in the villago. (N.B.— lt was a purely Greek village, as it happened.— Tho Author.) Alas thoy hit tho Greeks."