MACEDONIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11132, 26 January 1899, Page 3

MACEDONIA.

REFORMS DEMANDED. Received January £5 t 11 a.m. London, January 24. Russia has forwarded a Note to the other Powers dealing with the demands of the Turkish province of Macedonia for reforms. Eussia states that while sympathising with the spirit of the requests made by Macedonia to the Sultan, she cannot support them because she fears that any action of the kind would lead to international trouble. Here Von Bulow, Imperial foreign Secretary, dealing in the Reichstag recently with foreign affairs, said that the solution of the Eastern question had become more complicated than it was 20 years ago. It was at present in a peaceful phase, but none of us would live to see its final solution. "We must leave to our children and children's children some | gjits to crack. The opposition not only l}e£wflsn Christians and Mahomedans, but fcetswn the different nations of the Balkans h&d J/pccme more pronounced. With their sense f>£ independence their desire for .exriajjstw Jjad increased. ■ There were points whjolj might become veritable apples of disc.or^.. could find a way of satisfying £he claims of the various nationalities »nd creedß in Macedonia wonld be, jn hjs opinion, a very clever person. ' Thas jvas a task only less difficult tha» to sq^S the circle or to discover the philosopher'? stone. He would not touch upon questions .which centred more ia the neighborhood of i Constantinople and in Asia Minor, and he preferred not to discuss ths Armenian question at all. But, ao far as human calculation went, they might hope that tranquility in the East would not be disturbed in the immediate future. The general sense of the necessity of peace 4»*4 increased with the improvement of cocu^unicafcions between the nations. As armaments had become vaster, so too had increased the dread of tha outbreak of wars which, y/ould be wars of. peoples in the most terrible Mnse of the word. "Vyjthout having too .high ; an opinion of thenseejves they might add ; with legitimate satisfaction fhat Germany, precisely bees-use ,sh,e fcad no 1 direct political interests in the East and , because the love of Oerawy for peace ! was indubitable, fumisbsd ft perjtain' guarantee for the ultimato recoHeiltefcjon ot .opposed interests.