Das Staatsarchiv Volume 69-70; Sammlung Der Offiziellen Aktenstucke Zur Aussenpolitik Der Gegenwart (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... Die mazedonische Frage 1903), NY. 13234. GROSSBRITANNIEN.--Der Generalkonsul in Saloniki an den englischen Botschafter in Konstantinopel. Bericht fiber den Zustand in Mazedonien. Salonica, February 25, 1903. (March 16.) Sir, There is very little doubt that an insurrectionary movement of some sort against the Government will take place this spring in Macedonia, and the only question then is how far the movement will spread and what importance will it assume. As things are now--that is, with the bands already existing here and those crossing the frontier against the real wish of Bulgaria, and meeting with a more or less cordial reception from part of the Exarchists in Macedonia--it seems hardly likely that the rising can become general. It is more than doubtful whether the bands will induce any great percentage of the population to take up arms, willingly or unwillingly, in their favour. fl Although, besides the encounters which may be expected to occur along the frontier, where the population has been exasperated by the ill-treatment it suffered recently during the Turkish search for arms, and which small parties of armed men may cross in spite of the utmost endeavours on both sides to prevent them, a more determined effort against the Government may be made in some inland centres, such as those of Stroumnitsa and Kilkish in this vilayet, and in some cazas of the Vilayet of Monastir; yet the bands, well organized and numerous as they are, cannot exert the pressure on the peasantry as a whole necessary to force it to rise with them, for the latter would require some assurance of subsequent protection from retribution on the part of the Government--an assurance which can only come from without. The movement in the other parts of these vilayets will in all ...