OBJECTS OF THE BULGARIAN AGITATORS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 8 October 1912, Page 5

OBJECTS OF THE BULGARIAN AGITATORS.

(( The Sofia correspondent of tho< Retch"—who knows Bulgaria as few foreigners, do—gives in his journal a highly interesting account of the Macedonian terrorism. "The pogrom at Koch ana," he says, is not an accident. It is an exceptionally striking exhibition of a well- ! thought-out system, a necessary link in a well-adapted policy, an event which has been brought about with full consciousness. . . To a civilised European ! this may sound incredible: such a cruel and blood-thirsty line of policy which pursued its object through wholesale pogroms on one's own people. Yet it is a fact. It is plainly avowed by the S Macedonian terrorists themselves. It is ■ known krevery Bulgarian familiar with i the precedents and the literature of the ! subject. The main- line of argument ie ' quite simple^ Enrone mi.s-t »*, sho^yn +1. * ll irk?y w savage and incorrieible that she is ma chronic state of anarchy, that she is absolutely incapable of securing to her Christian subjects the most elementary conditions of peace and human existence. It is also necessary to fid the cup of Bulgaria's pationco and compel her, even against her !2> dose with Turkey i n a mortal combat, Such is the task, the problem. How js it to be solved? 'Persuasion by words, appeals to 'humanity, *o reason, to brotheSy sentiment have been tried many times and nrrwant^l^' • Moi>o <"«&** me^ are wanted. It is necessary to give an object lesson, a standing lesson, a startling lesson admitting of no doubt The bomb has not, for its object a definite person some specially dangerous or harmful representative of the hated regime. Ihe bomb is thrown that it may create a. panic among .the population, awaken the fanaticism of the Turkish mob and throw it, maddened by fear and hist for revenge, against the authors of tho outrage, against those who protect them, who sympathise with them, on whose behalf they act—in •short, on the Bulears. This result can he predicted almost mathematically, i He mob will begin to massacre Christians^ and tho authorities will either consciously shut their eyes to tho excesses of the mob because they too have been seized with a fanatical hatred or they w,Il not bo able to stop them m time because they are indolent or incapable or unorganised. Thus one wav Ol\f^ a r>Ofrrom will take place * The news will then bo carried to Bulgaria, to Europe, where it will find a well-prepared ground. The details will cause a thrill of horror in the hearts, will awaken a feeling of pity towards tho victims, and one of hatred and contempt for the assnroins. Bulgaria will bo seized with a fever of excitement and Jus,, for revenge which may prove too strong: even for a peaceful and Turcophil Government, and European dipk>macy will show its teeth ami squeeze still tighter the loop with which at is trying to strangle Turkey."