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Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Thepeasants of Bosnia and Herzegovina rose against the tyrant, and theChristian Bulgars, rallying to the common cause, slew some of theTurkish officials. Retaliation by the Turks took the form of mas-sacres that in some regions bordered on annihilation. SoutheasternEurope suj^ped full with horror, while modern civilization looked onaghast. With sword and torch the barbarous Bashi-Bazouks ravagedthe villages of the JNIoritza valley, burning and murdering until sixty-five villages, with most of their population, had been destroyed. Al-ready the peasants had suffered repeated tortures. Tithe-collectorswho could not collect taxes in advance had bound naked men to trees,smeared their skins with honey, and left them to the ants. In freez-ing weather, they let the frost do its work. Sometimes the peasantswere driven into trees, or hiding-places, and were smoked out withgreen wood, as hunters smoke out wild animals. The actual massa-cres seemed hardly worse. At Batak, Achmet Aga swore by the
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188 THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR 189 beard of the prophet that he would not harm the villages who yieldedup their arms. The arms were surrendered, and the Turks took alltheir money, too. Then they slew them—men, women, and children—to the number of five thousand. An English government agent sent a report of this affair to hishome authorities, telling how a church filled with refugees hadbeen fired by Bashi-Bazouks, and the people therein extermin-ated. This, and similar accounts, sent a shudder throughout Eng-land, eliciting from Gladstone a celebrated pamphlet in which he de-nounced the imspeakable Turk, and called for his expulsion fromEurope, bag and baggage. But Disraeli was in power; and, as hewas a statesman who feared Russia more than he loved the Slav, GreatBritain did nothing at all. Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, for a time entertained hopesthat the other Powers would join with him in restraining the Turk.But when he saw that England set trade above sentiment and publicopinio

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