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Bucharest. The President of the London Balkan Committee, Mr.
Noel Buxton, went to Bulgaria and made certain promises to
Mr. Radoslavoff, the Bulgarian Premier, in the name of Sir
Edward Grey. He promised the restitution to Bulgaria of the
Enos-Midia line, including Adrianople. The Bulgarians,
however, are not to be fooled in this way by promises at the
expense of third parties, and especially when the eventual
cost of these gifts might be a heavy one. We must not forget
that Bulgaria wants not Thrace, but Macedonia. If Great
Britain had promised Bulgaria Macedonia, including Saloniki,
and the Bulgarian Government was convinced beforehand of the
fulfillment of the promise, then it is certain that the
proposal would be accepted. But this is not in line with
England's interests, because in that case she would lose her
two other customers--Greece and Servia. And so there goes
Mr. Buxton making offers out of our own pocket.

But we Turks have been used to injustices; and it has become
an axiom in history that whenever there is trouble in any
part of the world we must be the ultimate sufferers. It
seems that this time, too, "our friends" felt like repeating
the same story; but now we are not to be caught napping, and
the Government, having in time mobilized the army, is ready
for every emergency.

_On Sept. 27 a Turkish destroyer having been stopped by a British
destroyer outside the Dardanelles, the Turkish Government ordered the
straits closed to all shipping._

_The Turkish Government tried to justify in the official press of
Constantinople the measure of closing the straits by declaring that
this important step was undertaken only after a Franco-British fleet
had established an actual blockade of the straits to the detriment of
Turkish commerce and neutral navigation. The Government organ, The
Tasfiri-Efkiar, said:_

The powers are trying to justify the mobilization of Switzerland, and
are making a great case of Belgian neutrality, but meantime they
consider our mobilization as having no other purpose than an
aggression against our neighbors.

Now, if the neutrality of Switzerland, which is guaranteed by all the
powers, is likely to be endangered, how is it possible for us to
remain calm and undisturbed in this universal upheaval, so long as we
know that to annoy and continually harass Turkey accor