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 . ledupon his army it did not obey. For even the army had gone over tothe conspirators; and absolutism, outwtted, now graciously permitteda parliament. The revolution had been accomplished with little dis-order, and all classes and creeds, forgetting hereditary hatreds, be-came as brothers who had overthrown the common enemy. Never be-fore in the worlds
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 . ledupon his army it did not obey. For even the army had gone over tothe conspirators; and absolutism, outwtted, now graciously permitteda parliament. The revolution had been accomplished with little dis-order, and all classes and creeds, forgetting hereditary hatreds, be-came as brothers who had overthrown the common enemy. Never be-fore in the worlds history had infidel and Christian, purified of ran-cor, met on the neutral ground of humanitj^ and embraced withinsight of the Crescent. It was perhaps this triumph of the Young Turks that precipitated THE BALKAN WAR 199 Austria-Hungarys rapacious action the following October, that in-spired the Greeks of Crete to announce their allegiance to Greece, andthat hastened the proclamation of independence by Bulgaria. Yetthe Young Turks survived these successive shocks to their were even able to regain the upper hand in Constantinople whenthe army mutinied in April, civil war was threatened, and massacrestook place in Asia Christians Fleeing from Turkish Territory Once more in control, after a brief campaign involving the cap-ture of Constantinople by loyal soldiers from afar, the Young Turksdeposed Abdul Hamid and placed JNIohanmied V on the throne. Butagainst the violations of the Treaty of Berlin they protested to thePowers in vain. It seems that, for all their good intent, Turkish re-form had come too late to avert a catastrophe brought about by cen-turies of cruelty throughout the Ottoman Empire. When the Powers in 1878 had endeavored to lay the ghost of theEastern Question by an artificial and inefpectual arrangement ofboundaries, they had begged the little question within the greater—the question of what should be done with INIacedonia, the last redoubt
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