Mr. E. Ashmead Bartlett, who appears to have travelled re-
cently in Servia, writes a long letter to the Times, urging that Britain has now one more opportunity of redeeming her mistake in not intervening on behalf of the Slavic Christians. The Servians are disenchanted with Russia, and would, if part of Boseia were ceded to them, gladly make a separate peace with Turkey. "Some kind of autonomous administration" should also be arranged for Bulgaria, and then England could enter into war, if needful, with a clear conscience, and Turkey would be greatly strengthened. That would be good advice, if extended to Herzegovina and the Greek provinces of Turkey also, and the autonomous arrangement made real ; but Mr. Bartlett, like everybody else who suggests these medium courses, entirely omits to explain what guarantees he would be content with. No autonomous arrangement is possible without a military and non-Turkish occupation of Bulgaria. Who is to occupy it ? Turkish troops? Why did not Turkish troops prevent the atrocities, which were just aaillegal under existing Hatta as they would be under any, possible constitution Turks could frame ? It is force that is wanted, not a new form of promise.
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