THE RETREAT FROM EUROPE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10591, 7 March 1913, Page 2

THE RETREAT FROM EUROPE.

“The horrors of the Balkan War are coming gradually to the knowledge of the European public, ’ says the Daily Telegraph’s Vienna correspondent “The crimes of the Serbs against the Albanians, ot the Greeks against the Jews of Salonika, and of the Bulgarians against the Boumaniaun and Islamites form one of the most terrible chapters or modern history. An association has been founded in Constantinople with the object of collecting information on the atrocities of the Balkan armies, which will be published in a Black and Bed Book and circulated throughout the world. The Turkish and other Mohammedan villagers from the Thracian plains are retracing backwards the steps cf their ancestors of five centuries ago, and leaving Europe to return to Asia. And the weird part of it ;iB, that in costume, conveyances, and manner of life there has been practically no change in these 500 years- The wheels of their long narrow carts have spokes in them mow, where they used to he solid wheels, and perhaps the rush matting that protects the family from the weather may he a little better woven. But the oxen or buffaloes that leisurely drag the household along, and the barefooted wife or the sandalled husband with the goad Who pulls these lumbering animals by a string, and the primitive mode of life on their plodding journey, all belong to a bygone age.