5 MAY 1900, Page 3

The Vienna and Sofia correspondents of the Daily Mail give

in Friday's paper descriptions of the anti-tax riots in Bulgaria which, if not exaggerated, amount to a. peasant revolt. It is said that three thousand peasants are marching on Rustchuk, and that a portion of them are armed with rifles taken from the first body of soldiers sent against them. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the dangers that might arise for South- Eastern Europe were the movement to spread in this essentially peasant State.