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THE TURKISH TROUBLE

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 25, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 21.

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THE TURKISH TROUBLE.

RESPECTING the recent outbreak in Salonica, of which an account was given in last week's REVIEW, the Boston Journal, after speaking of the hostile elements in European Turkey, and the small minority of those who are really Ottomans, says:—
“Nothing but outside pressure—the result of mutual distrust and fears and of the expediency of maintaining the existing status in Europe—has kept those hostile elements from coming into collision or has made the arbitrary rule of the hated minority tolerable at any time during the last quarter of a century. It is possible that the point of forbearance is passed now. The official representatives of Germany and France have been slain under circumstances which show not only that the fanaticism of the Turks against the Christians is as fierce as ever, but that the Turkish government is unable to protect the latter. We may be sure that neither Bismarck nor MacMahon will stand this affront, and it may be that they will agree with the other leading powers of Europe that the time has at length arrived for the Turks to decamp and betake themselves to their Asiatic home.”
A dispatch, dated London, May 12, says:—
“The Paris correspondent of the Times has received a communication from a person of unquestionable authority who considers that the fanatical movement in Salonica is gaining ground.
“The correspondent thinks the Salonica affair may be the effect of an agitation which has been carefully fomented, in view of the eventual necessity of a ‘holy war.’ He hopes the powers will take prompt measures to prevent horrors which may be foreseen.”
“Prepared for an emergency. The Times’ dispatch from Berlin says Russia and Austria have placed their men-of-war in the Archipelago at the disposal of Germany, in case there should be any further attempt to molest the Germans in Turkey before the arrival of the German squadron.”