World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Saturday 24 October 1903, page 10
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In every the
MILITARY
GLORIOUS
rs
progress the
Europe
HISTORY.
(or freedom
war
which
has
marked
in south-eastern of emancipation have taken Macedonians part. Mace
fought side by side with the Greek3 during the long and bitter struggle for Grecian donians
to render
Servians
through
swarmed
Macedonians passes
the
When
Independence.
assistance; when
revolted,
mountain the Bulgarian
the
to hurried broke out, Macedonians to stand side by side to fight, and, if necessary die with men of an alien race having nothing in of the but hatred with themselves common With every revolt in European Turkish yoke. the Mace Turkey for the last three centuries donians have sympathised; they have sent men
rebellion
to
aid
recuuu
tuÂŤ
promise
cess.
vians, are
insur
iiwu
least
and
every
(
of
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sue-
Greeks, Ser Bulgarians,
'
Armenians
even
their debtors, but
Macedonians the themselves (s%ys an American
though
writer), aiding others
still are freedom, under the rule of the which power savage to
nearly 1000 years has blighted the fair for
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est
portions
of
two
continents. is not It strange that the Macedonians It revolt. should
would
be
stranger
if
they did not. A free, brave, liberty-loving people, they have for been subjected ages the most odious, detestable, the most to
the
most
form
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tyranny
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World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Saturday 24 October 1903, page 10 (3) of tyranny to the world the limits of
ing form known
outside the Turkish
Empire.
political despotism Is bad enough, a re
A
ligious
is
despotism
intoler able, yet the Turkish both. rule combines
well
-
nigh
English
A great writer once
in
said, that
substance,
men
to makeshift: could live under the rule of
tyrant but bauchee,
not
en
busybody.
a
Turkish
The
Govern of that
is
ment
debauchee exercised
bodies, so
.human
could
nature dure
de
or
a
a
tyrant,
-
by
busy
persistent,
so
meddlesome,
so
the
in
troublesome
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;*
life of existence
daily affairs as
to
make
Itself
Servians there was the ages the
not
were
rounding
ritory
unendurable
an
donians
1
and look
more
burden
always the powerful
proudly
back
to
Servian
The Mace slaves of sur The nations. when Bulgarians to
the
days
Empire; the when of the ter Bulgaria ruled most once In comprised European Turkey;
Greeks
a
to
peninsula gave
the to
golden the
world
age
when
the
little
its art, its letters,
its science, and philosophy. Macedonia, too, has a glorious past, for from the plains and val leys. from the mountain slopes and crags of the
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in the vilayets of Salo and nica came Monastir the men who marched to certain victory under Alexander the Great. The tremendous growth of Macedonian power the short reign of Alexander was of one during the marvels of all history. From a comparatively
country
now
comprised
insignificant State, disadvantageous^ situated, no natural and boundaries therefore having to attack or incursion, having neither art, open letters, Macedonia science, nor became tho of the world
in a time
short and under so circumstances extraordinary that the story reads like a chapter from an Oriental fairy tale. fell to piece* im The empire of Alexander mediately after his death, and from tho same that about the downfall of causes brought Power
Persia.
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I
1
There
was
no
so
coherence
among
the
it, and soon as different element* composing as the influence of one predominating mind wus the But the whole State removed collapsed. have never Macedonians forgotten the one glori Macedonian ous history, and period in their to revolt to-<?ay incite their hearers orators against the Turk by stories of the Granicus aud of Arbela and the death of the l8sus, by songs
>
Persian
King.
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